Emperor's lettuce can promote digestion, prevent coronary heart disease, but also can protect the eyes and prevent vision loss; emperor's lettuce also contains a natural volatile oil, can play an important role in the broadening of the middle and increase appetite. Usually use the emperor vegetable boiled water to drink, but also can relieve coughing bronchitis.

Emperor's lettuce is also known as the same artemisia, artemisia pong, artemisia, chrysanthemum cabbage, pond artemisia, artemisia rods, artemisia, pontica, tung flower cabbage and so on. In ancient China, Chrysanthemum coronarium for the court delicacies, so called the emperor dish.

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Historically, Du Fu spent his entire life displaced and sick. Legend has it that when he was in Kui Zhou, Sichuan Province, he suffered from severe severe, blurry eyes and deafness, and had no livelihood. So he left Kui Zhou at the age of 56, sick, and moved to Public Security in Hubei Province.

The local people made a dish for the distraught Du Fu to eat. The dish was made from a mixture of corns (emperor's vegetables), spinach, bacon, and glutinous rice flour, and Du Fu ate it with great praise, and his health improved a lot. In honor of this great poet, later generations called this dish "Dufu Cuisine".

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