Can tung flowers be eaten?

Tung flowers are edible. Tung flower is the edible game on the plane tree, which can be made into tung flower cake, tung flower wheat rice and so on.

Tung flower has comprehensive nutrients and contains various vitamins protein. When eating Chinese parasol tree, it is recommended to blanch it with boiling water and then eat it cold, so that the nutritional value can be well preserved. You can also chop the sycamore flowers into jiaozi or steamed bread. Indus flower has high vitamin content, which can enhance human immunity. The leaves of sycamore flowers can also be soaked in water to drink.

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Tung flowers bloom in the Qingming period, which is an important phenology at the turn of spring and summer, reflecting the time sequence and scenery characteristics of this season; Tomb-Sweeping Day is both a solar term and a festival in China. Tomb-Sweeping Day's political ceremony and social folklore on this day are also reflected and gathered in Tonghua's image. Tung flower not only has "natural attribute", but also has its "social attribute".

In the middle Tang Dynasty, Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi's singing works improved the character of Tonghua and gave it the meaning of personality analogy. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, "Tonghua Style" was widely recorded, and it was also endowed with figurative meanings such as auspiciousness and love.

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