Unknown (Ming dynasty), Compendium of Edible Wild Plants

The Compendium of Edible Wild Plants (Yecai bolu)

The Compendium of Edible Wild Plants was published during the ‘Tianqi reign period of the Ming Dynasty’.[1]

Yecai bolu includes 435 edible plants. Below the name of each species is an illustration of the plant, followed by information on its appearance, its properties and flavours, and methods of collection and consumption.’[1:1]

Items

  1. ‘Jin gua’er (a kind of pumpkin), Chinese woodcut’, Wellcome Collection, accessed 16 April 2024, https://wellcomecollection.org/works/enh3ywsj. ↩︎ ↩︎