Chrysanthemum flower brain, also known as chrysanthemum vegetable, chrysanthemum leaf, chrysanthemum Lang, is a common wild vegetable in Nanjing area to prevent summer heat and clear fire in summer. There is a local saying: "Nanjing people, seek not old, do not eat fish, love to eat grass, chopping board, bamboo shoots, chrysanthemum flower brain", which shows the local people's love for chrysanthemum flower brain. Spring is the season when everything is splendid. Rural people have the habit of eating wild vegetables since ancient times. With the spring breeze, more and more delicious wild vegetables are available, and there is a craze for digging wild vegetables in most rural areas of China. The wild vegetables dug in the vast majority of regions in China are basically the same, such as the common amaranth, houttuynia, horse chestnut, red amaranth and so on. However, there are also some wild vegetables with local characteristics, such as the water shield just in the south, the monkey's leg vegetable in the deep mountains in the north, and the microgreens in the northeast.

There is also a relatively few wild vegetables, known as "chrysanthemum brain", the name is very special, what is it? Now I will give you a good introduction. Chrysanthemum brain should be very few people have seen, because the distribution area of the wild vegetable is relatively small, mainly concentrated in China's Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangsu, and the popularity of the place is only in the area of Nanjing, Jiangsu. Chrysanthemum belongs to the chrysanthemum family and was a variety of chrysanthemum thousands of years ago.

Later, the flower shrank and became a wild vegetable separate from the chrysanthemum family. In fact, compositae is the leaves of chrysanthemums. Every summer, people in Jiangsu Province make duck egg soup with chrysanthemum flower compositae, which is a special tool to eliminate summer heat. The main way to eat chrysanthemum flower brain in the production area is to stir-fry it or boil it in soup. Its flavor is fragrant and refreshing, and eating it often in summer helps to eliminate the summer heat. Chrysanthemum is a related plant of the wild chrysanthemum genus in the Asteraceae family. There are two kinds of chrysanthemums: small-leaved chrysanthemums and large-leaved chrysanthemums, with large-leaved chrysanthemums of better quality. The leaves are oval or long oval, with small yellow flowers that bloom from September to November.

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