菜用菾菜原产于欧洲南部及地中海沿岸，它包括叶菜（菜）和根菜（红菜头）。叶菜大约是在公元三至五世纪的魏晋间，沿着丝绸之路从中亚地区传入我国的，著录始见于南北朝时南梁的《名医别录》。元代以前已开始人工栽培，栽培方法始载于元初的《农桑辑要》。根菜约在宋元间（公元十二至十四世纪）经中亚引入我国。著录始见于元代的《饮膳正要》．并有实物图可确认，人工栽培不迟于十四世纪初。 Dish cabbage is native to southern Europe and the Mediterranean coast and includes leafy vegetables and root vegetables. Leafy vegetables were introduced into China around the Wei-Jin Dynasties from the third to the fifth centuries along the Silk Road from Central Asia. Yuan Dynasty has begun before artificial cultivation, cultivation methods are contained in the early Yuan Dynasty “Nong Sang want.” Root vegetables about in the Song and Yuan Dynasties (AD twelve to fourteenth Century) by China into China. Bibliography began in the Yuan Dynasty, “drink meal is about.” And physical map can be confirmed, artificial cultivation no later than the beginning of the fourteenth century.