According to the scholarship of the Ming dynasty "yuppie" Wen Zhenheng, it was called "elegant garlic" by the people of the Six Dynasties period. The Nanyang Poetry Anthology says that narcissi originally grew in mountain valleys and were called "heavenly onions."
根據明代雅痞文震亨的考證，六朝人管它叫「雅蒜」；《南陽詩注》則說明此花本生武當山谷間，土人謂之「天蔥」。