Spinach was originally a vegetable cultivated by the Persians more than two thousand years ago, so it has an alias as "Persian grass", and the introduction of Persian grass into China is the work of the Nepalese. The Tang Dynasty ZhenGuan twenty-one years (more than one thousand three hundred years ago), Nepal King Naratipo spinach from Persia to bring, as a gift, sent ambassadors to Chang'an, offered to the Tang Emperor, spinach from now on in China settled. At that time, China called spinach origin for the Western spinach spinach country, which is the reason why it was called "spinach" and simplified into today's "spinach". Fuzhou folk still follow this saying, called spinach.