Spinach, vegetable leaves green green, vegetable roots red color, so it is also called - red-beaked green parrot. Spinach is also known as Persian, red root vegetables, parrot vegetables, etc., belongs to the quinoa family spinach, annual herbs. Plants up to 1 meter high, root conical, reddish, less often white, leaves hastate to ovate, bright green, entire or with a few tooth-like lobes.

There is another allusion to this beautiful name. Legend has it that during the Qing Dynasty, one autumn, Emperor Qianlong traveled to the countryside in Xuzhou for a private visit, because the money was stolen, hunger and thirst, coupled with the dry climate in autumn, his nose and bleeding, so he went to the farmer's house to beg for food. The farmer fried a few cakes for him and cooked a pot of soup. Qianlong tasted the soup, the flavor is particularly delicious, soon, nosebleed also stop. He asked the farmer to ask what this soup is made of vegetables, the old farmer smiled and said: "green pulp white jade version, red beak green parakeet." Qianlong returned to the capital, then ordered the minister to analyze these two ballads. It turned out to be that in this greenish-green soup, there is a block of snow-white jade-like tofu, and there are leaves green, reddish roots of spinach.