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What is the history of China's understanding and utilization of fungi?
According to historical documents, as early as more than 2,000 years ago, mushrooms, auricularia and other fungi have become favorite foods of our people, and Poria cocos and Ganoderma lucidum have long been widely used as important medicinal materials. In the Tang Dynasty more than 1300 years ago, there were records about the cultivation of edible fungi. According to the records of the Edo period in Japan's "Broken Edition of King Wen Gu Zhai" (written in 1790), Japanese mushroom cultivation techniques were handed down from China. The cultivation technology of Volvariella volvacea was first brought to Malaya by overseas Chinese in the early years, and then spread widely in Southeast Asia and North Africa. As a result, Volvariella volvacea has become a favorite vegetable variety in tropical and subtropical regions, and gained the reputation of "China Mushroom" abroad. These are the great contributions made by our people to the cultivation technology of edible fungi.