During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the garden planting industry was quite developed, and people began to cultivate medicinal crops in large quantities to meet the demand of the medicinal market.

While cultivating medicinal plants, people discovered that the buds and leaves of many medicinal plants could be eaten as vegetables, so they continued to pick them and use them in food and beverages. These are what ancient historical books call medicinal seedlings.

In the farmland reclamation in the Tang Dynasty, medicinal gardens accounted for a certain proportion. Wherever farming was done, medicinal plants were always cultivated.

Volume 16 of "Bai's Changqing Collection" once said that at that time: "Medicine gardens and vegetable gardens were an industry." This shows that the cultivation of medicinal materials in the Tang Dynasty had reached a considerable scale.

Another example is Du Fu's poem "The Eye of the Spring of Taiping Temple": "Why should the house be in the lower reaches, and the remaining water leads to the medicine garden." Wang Wei's poem "Jizhou Passing Zhao Sou's Family Banquet" says: "The lotus is hoeing the medicine garden, and... the Chinese kitchen is feeding wild vegetables."

Liu Deren's poem "Gift to Tao Shanren" says: "My wife works together in the medicine garden, and my wife works together in the mountain fields." All reflect the prosperity of the medicine garden operation.

Even in the narrow space in front of and behind the house, people in the Tang Dynasty would plant several patches of medicinal herbs.

For example, Yao He's "Thirty Poems in Wugong County" says: "The only thing that surrounds the house is the pergola, and the intrusion into the steps is the medicine border." Yao Guo's "Two Poems by Li Shiyu in Suizhou" says: "The only place where you live is to carry medicine.

"These widely cultivated medicinal plants provided huge resources for the people of the Tang Dynasty to collect medicinal seedlings.

The picture comes from the Internet. In the eyes of the Tang Dynasty, medicinal seedlings are rare and delicious vegetables. They are not only delicious, but also nourishing the body and mind.

Li Deyu's poem "Remembering the Medicine Miao" has a cordial praise for this. The poem goes: "The medicine seedlings are all over the stream, and the velvet is in full bloom. They can all help me live longer, not only strengthen my muscles and bones. The taste is masked by Shangshanzhi,

Ying surpasses Shouyang fern. How is it like Gan Gushi, who has no choice but to sip from the fragrant spring? "In the daily meals of the Tang Dynasty, medicinal seedlings and vegetables were equally important, and they were both excellent non-staple foods.

Fang Qian's poem "Gift to Zhang Shaofu in Kuaiji" says: "Gaojie never seemed to be an official. The medicinal seedlings are fragrant and clean and ready for regular meals." And the poem "Sending Zhengtai Chushi back to Jiangyan" says: "I am used to collecting medicinal seedlings for wild meals.

Zeng wrote a new inscription on banana leaves. "Lulun's poem "Tongliu Shilang Tishou Zhao Shilang Xinchangli" says: "Tingsha becomes a wild mat, and the medicine is a household vegetable." Jia Dao's poem "Zhaizhong" says: "Already."

When it rains when you are full, you should have plenty of vegetables and medicines. "Bai Juyi's poem "Mountain Residence" says: "Medicine and vegetables are the only food in the morning, and there are only gauze lamps to accompany you at night." Zheng Chang's poem "Send to Xing Yiren" says: "Drink medicine and seedlings in the wild."

Guan Lin's poem "He Mao Xueshi Sheren Early Spring" says: "Medicine flowers are sweet in the dishes." The poets of the Tang Dynasty quoted above described the prominent position of medicinal seedlings in the diet from different angles, whether it was a picnic for a mountain man or a virgin,

The traces and flavors of medicinal seedlings can be seen in the exquisite delicacies of literati and officials.

This shows that as an emerging vegetable food category, medicinal seedlings have occupied a place in the traditional diet pattern of the Tang Dynasty.

People in the Song Dynasty once again expanded the scope of eating medicinal seedlings and increased the proportion of medicinal seedlings in their daily vegetable diet.

Volume 8 of Huang Xiufu's "Maoting Guest Talk" recorded that people at that time "used medicinal seedlings as vegetables and medicinal powder as food." This phenomenon was extremely common.

In the recipes of Shanren Farmers, medicinal seedlings often appear as the protagonist.

For example, Lu You's poem "Mountain Cooking" says: "Cut medicinal seedlings and pick wild vegetables, so the mountain family does not have to travel far to cook." The poem "Duzhi Dunan Summer Retreat in the Big Bamboo Forest" also says: "The medicinal seedlings and wild vegetables are delicious in the mountains.

"Those bureaucrats with a certain status also eat medicinal seedlings, and they relish them even more. For example, Wang Yu's poem "Send Fengyang Yu to the Chief" says: "The medicinal seedlings are fragrant as many dishes are eaten"; Lu You's poem "Ji Shi" also says: "

The medicinal seedlings are self-picked and the vegetables are beautiful.” It can be seen that the fresh and refreshing medicinal seedlings have touched the appetite of many people.

There are many edible varieties of medicinal seedlings, such as wolfberry seedlings, chamomile seedlings, Youhe, Shu seedlings, Polygonatum sibiricum young leaves, Acanthopanax bark, perilla, Acanthus, Cassia, etc., which are all delicious vegetables.

The picture comes from the Internet. People in the Tang and Song Dynasties planted wolfberry and regarded its seedlings and leaves as vegetables.

Chen Zi'ang once mentioned in "Guanyu Pian" that people made wolfberry seedling leaves into vegetables for people to eat.

After eating wolfberry seedlings, literati in the Song Dynasty often praised it and wrote poems about it.

For example, Zhao Fan's poem "Eating Wolfberries" says: "Who knows that the spring breeze has not yet happened, and the wolfberry seedlings are already ready for soup. Don't make your mouth tired, because the thin bamboo is better than the fat belly of a pig." Zhu Yi's poem "Eating Wolfberries with Liu Ling"

Yun: "Zhou Dang passed by Uncle Zhong, and there was no vegetable in the water. I have wolfberry on the plate, which is the same chopsticks as Zi. If you are better than the magistrate of Min County, you are already the abbot rich. But it makes your teeth and cheeks fragrant, but it is not fishy." The leaves of wolfberry are slightly

It has a bitter taste and must be blanched in boiling water before eating. If cooked properly, it is still a cool and refreshing vegetable.

People in the Tang and Song Dynasties cultivated chamomile and used it as medicinal materials, and also ate its leaves.

Some people also use chamomile as a drink.

Yao He of the Tang Dynasty described the wonderful dietary uses of this chamomile in his "Disgraceful Admonishment during Sickness and the Gift of Chamomile Seedlings in Poetry". The poem goes: "In an acre of palace, more than ten clusters of chrysanthemums are planted. Picking and fragrant dew

, the title is sent to the sick man. It should be cooked in a tea tripod, and the meal is called Shiou. The fragrance is different, and the taste is different. "People in the Song Dynasty cooked chamomile into vegetable soup and regarded it as a delicacy.

Guang's poem "The old cook picks mixed garden vegetables and uses wolfberry chrysanthemum to make a soup with a very precious smell" says: "The garden vegetables are picked two inches long, and the gums are crisp and fragrant with chrysanthemum seedlings. If you want to invite the neighboring dragons to come and sip, you are afraid that chickens and dolphins will jump over the wall."

"The fragrance and beauty of its vegetable soup are known from poems.

In the daily food of people in the Song Dynasty, we can often see chamomile. For example, Huang Tingjian's poem "Playing to Yan Shen": "Full the deficiency and relieve the war, lai soup cake, with pingqi and chamomile", which refers to the use of ganoderma lucidum and chamomile.

Chrysanthemum is used as a side dish for noodles; Su Shi's poem "Spring Vegetables": "The wormwood and chamomile live up to the canal, and the catfish strands pile up on the plate and are wiped with delicate hands." It also refers to the use of chamomile with fish.