莼菜又名水葵、马蹄草,属睡莲科,系多年生宿根性的湖沼草植物,至今已有1600多年的历史。据记载,野生莼菜的原产地是吴中灵岩山和东山,两山都有山池,“旱亦不涸,中有莼菜,吴中以为佳品”。直至明代,东山的邹舜五、蔡以宁两人把野生于山池的莼菜,移植苏州太湖,开始了人工种培,于是,莼菜又多了个“太湖水菜”的别名。 Suaveraceae, also known as waterweed, horseshoe grass, is a Nymphaeaceae, perennial perennial lake grass plants, has been 1600 years of history. According to records, the origin of wild vegetables is Ng Chung Ling Rock Hill and Dongshan, both mountains have pool, “drought also does not dry up, in the kohlrabi, Wuzhong think good quality ”. Until the Ming Dynasty, Dongsou Zou Shunwu, Cai Yining two wild beaked in the pool in the pond, transplanting Taihu Lake in Suzhou, began a kind of artificial cultivation, so Ipomoea addition of a “Taihu watercress” alias.