莼羹,即用莼菜烹制的羹,滑爽脆嫩,是味道鲜美而高雅的菜肴。莼菜,是一种珍稀营养水生植物。又名水葵、锦带,俗名马蹄草。莼菜属睡莲科,多年生草本,生湖沼河流之浅水中。叶椭圆形,深绿色,浮于水面。嫩茎和叶背有胶状透明粘液,春月新叶,粘液尤多。春夏之间,采摘嫩叶供食。历代文人对莼菜推崇备至。早在二千多年前,我国人民就把莼菜作为席上珍馐。《诗·鲁颂·泮水》中有“思乐泮水,薄采其茆”的诗句。据孔颖达疏:“茆(读mao茅)……江南人谓之莼菜”。意为在泮水之 Gourd soup, that is, cooked with boiled vegetables, smooth and crisp, is delicious and elegant dishes. Ipomoea aquatica, is a rare nutrient aquatic plants. Also known as water mallow, with belt, common name horseshoe. Tripterygium is a Nymphaeaceae, perennial herb, raw lake lakes rivers of shallow water. Leaves oval, dark green, floating on the water. Stems and leaves back with a gummy transparent mucus, the new spring leaves, mucus and more. Between spring and summer, picking leaves for food. Literary people of all ages praised the braised vegetables. As early as two thousand years ago, our people took Astronomy as a delicacy. “Poetry Lu Song Pan Water” in the “Sima Pan water, thin mining its 茆 ” verse. According to Kong Yingda Shu: “茆 (read mao Mao) ... ... Jiangnan people that the 莼 dishes ”. Means in pan water