China is an ancient civilization that has been eating pollen for a long time. More than 200 years ago, Qu Yuan, a great poet in the Warring States Period, wrote in Lisao that "drink magnolia leaf dew in the morning and eat autumn chrysanthemum and Ye Ying in the evening", which means that English leaf flowers and withered flowers naturally have pollen; The Song Dynasty's Classic of Materia Medica records: "Pollen Typhae is the stamen powder in a flower, as thin as gold thread. When it is ready to bloom, it is taken away, and it is very good as a fruit for honey search. " "Pollen honey syrup" is a traditional food in ancient China. 1502 the "dry honey method" in the "convenient map compilation" published by Suzhou is a good way to make pollen honey syrup: add 0.5 kg of pollen to every 5 kg of honey, boil the honey in a casserole first, and then add the pollen when the water drops are still scattered. Convenient Map Compilation is adapted from the unsigned work Convenient Map Compilation written by Wu County magistrate during Hongzhi period in Ming Dynasty. It can be seen that the preparation of food pollen honey in China was earlier than that in Song Dynasty, and it became a folk food in Ming Dynasty. In Qing Dynasty, Wang Shixiong wrote "Diet Spectrum with Interest" to describe the making method of pine pollen cake: add pine pollen after boiling white sugar with water; In the Qing Dynasty, it was recorded in the Annals of the Year of Beijing and the Annals of the Year of Yanjing that there were cakes made of pine pollen: Yuqian cake, rose cake, wisteria powder cake and Jiuhua cake, and some of them were collectively called "flower cake" and "spring cake", without mentioning the names of flower seeds. All these indicate that flower powder cake has occupied an important position in China's recipes since the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Pollen wine is a kind of health care wine that the broad masses of people in China have loved for thousands of years. Guo Zai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said "Yan Ju Hua Jiu". Su Wan also specially wrote "Honey Wine Song". The poem describes the process of collecting wine with pollen. "Convenient Map Compilation" records that chrysanthemum wine is made as follows:

"When the wine is almost ripe, take out two kilograms of chrysanthemum pollen from each jar and mix well. It will taste good when squeezed early. Cut off the fragrant and non-toxic pollen and use it like this. " . A Brief History of Wine by Song Boren in Yuan Dynasty and Diet Spectrum by Suixiju in Qing Dynasty recorded many kinds of pollen wines, such as Cai Tadi Pollen Wine, Rose Red Wine and Osmanthus Wine. Brewing pollen is an effective method for processing pollen in ancient China. From the perspective of modern biology, using distiller's yeast to ferment pollen can not only increase the bioavailability of pollen nutrients, but also be an effective way to remove allergens from pollen, which still has practical significance. Therefore, the pollen fermented by distiller's yeast is more conducive to making cakes, cakes, crystals, drinks and sweets than when it is not fermented.

The newly revised Materia Medica is the first pharmacopoeia in China officially promulgated in the fourth year of Tang Xianqing (AD 659). "Drinking to disperse yellow" associates pollen with wine. Pollen can be used as a first-class starter, can also be added to raw materials for brewing, and can also be soaked in wine for drinking. Rong Hong, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "When you wake up, you can get drunk". When Su Shi, a poet in the Song Dynasty, kept Dingzhou, he got pine pollen to make wine in Quyang as "Song Lao Fu". The drinking method of Yuanhe Ji Yongjing's "Songhua Wine" is to take 2 liters of pine pollen, wrap it in a silk bag, soak it in 5 liters of human wine for five days, and drink three boxes each time, which can cure dizziness, swelling and numbness, dermatosis and other diseases. In ancient times, it was also common to use pollen to adjust porridge and soup, such as "Chinese rose powder soup" in Compendium of Materia Medica and Quanzhou Materia Medica, and "Songhua soup" in "drinking rice" in Yuan Dynasty.