台湾著名作家林清玄写过这样一则故事:他到水田边看到一片白色的鲜花,貌似百合,但开得比百合还要繁茂鲜美。他当场就被那雄浑的美震慑了,便一把拉住田边的农夫问“这是什么花儿?”农夫告诉他这是空心菜。他更加疑惑了:“我每年都种空心菜,怎么没有看到开过花儿呢?”农夫说:“老百姓种空心菜,都是在没有开花就摘 Taiwan famous writer Lin Qingxuan wrote such a story: he saw a white field to the paddy fields of flowers, looks like a lily, but also to open more than lily delicious lush. When he was deterred by the mighty beauty on the spot, he dragged the farmer from Tanabe and asked, ”What is this flower?“ ”The farmer told him that this was a spinach.“ He was even more puzzled: ”Every year I have to grow cabbage, why I did not see the flowers?“ ”The farmer said:" The people planted cabbage, are picked without flowering