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Chapter 473: Shennong's (II)

"Shennong's Clan?! Are you a descendant of the Shennong clan? Belong to Shennong's family? I asked.

"That's right." Dr. Jiang said.

"Yin Yin, I heard you say before that there are hundreds of schools of thought, and there are farmers in them, is it the same thing as the Shennong's family?" Sister Wang Na asked.

"The Shennong family belongs to the farmer's family, but unlike the farmer's family, they are the descendants of the Shennong family, Doctor Jiang, you should be no stranger to the Shennong family, I don't want the class to get an axe, you tell us about the Shennong family." I say.

"Okay." Dr. Jiang promised, "The Shennong clan is the leader of the ancient Chinese tribal alliance. As the last god of the Five Clans, he put an end to an era of famine. Because it is mainly agricultural, his tribe is called the Shennong tribe. Through the hard work of the Three Emperors, China has made great progress, but people's lives are still very difficult. At this time, great figures of various gods came into being. Just after the Three Emperors, after a long period of time, the following five clans appeared: the Chao clan, the Suiren clan, the Fuxi clan, the Nuwa clan, and the Shennong clan. The original meaning of the five clans is also a god, but the divinity is less than that of the emperor, and it can be included in the third level of gods. Shennong, because his belly is transparent, you can see the reaction of various plants in the stomach. In this way, you can distinguish what plants can be eaten and what plants cannot be eaten, and taste the herbs to discern the effect of the medicine. He also wrote the earliest work of mankind, "Shennong's Materia Medica", taught people to plant grains and raise livestock, and completed the agricultural social structure of the Han nationality in China. He was a hard-working, brave and wise tribal leader in the primitive society of our country. He is the ancestor of the Chinese nation, the ancestor of agriculture, the ancestor of medicine, the ancestor of commerce, the ancestor of music, etc., and has made indelible contributions to Chinese civilization, and is known as one of the three emperors by later generations. Dr. Jiang said.

"I've also heard of this Shennong, and he has a lot of legends." Sister Wang Na said.

"That's right, in Han myths and legends, Shennong was born with a transparent belly, and all the internal organs can be seen. He was the inventor of mythical agriculture and medicine, as well as human tea, and he tasted all kinds of herbs and taught people medicine and farming. Because of these two important contributions, he is respected by the world as the King of Medicine, the King of Five Grains, the First Emperor of Five Grains, and the Emperor of Shennong. It is a deity in charge of medicine and agriculture. It can not only bless agricultural harvests and people's health, but also be regarded as a guardian saint by medical centers and medicine stores. Legend has it that Shennong's appearance was very peculiar, with a thin body, except for the limbs and head. It's all transparent. Therefore, the internal organs are clearly visible. Because Shennong's tasted all the herbs before. As long as the herb is poisonous, its internal organs will turn black after ingestion, so it is easy to know which herb has an effect on which part of the human body. Afterward. Shennong's died of eating broken intestine grass. Dr. Jiang said.

"Dead? Didn't he be revived by the gods later? Sister Wang Na asked.

"I can only say that there is no way to verify, although there is indeed such a statement later, but after all, the theory of immortals is nonsense in my opinion, but the influence of Shennong's ancestors I think it is true. Shennong's contribution to Chinese civilization is mainly as follows: starting from the beginning and cultivating for the benefit of the people; began to plant grains and feed on the people; Taste all the herbs and invent medicine; Japan and China are the first to advocate trading; Treat hemp as cloth, cover the body and avoid the cold; Arc and arrow to resist aggression; make pottery as a vessel, to store for civilian use; The first piano seer entertains the public; The first to boil salt to strengthen the body; Creation of astronomy, establishment of calendars. In my eyes, the ancestors of Shennong are immortals, and immortals are nothing more than that. Dr. Jiang said.

Not only that, there are many modern buildings or place names named in honor of Shennong. For example, the Shennong's Temple, also known as the Great Xian Palace, is located in the northeast of Yuner Village, Changkeng Township, and the local believers patrol the territory on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year, and do the Buddha's birthday on February 15th. In August, believers from all over the world come to the temple to worship and pray for dreams. There is also Shennongjia, according to legend, he erected wood as a ladder here to help climb, erected wood as a house, to shelter from the wind and rain, and finally erected wood as an altar, and ascended to heaven across the crane. In order to cherish the memory of the ancestors, praise its great cause, the people's government of the forest area began to build a Shennong altar in 1997 in the south foot of the main peak of Shennongjia, Xiaodangyang, and sculpt its statue in the mountains, but see the eyes of the Shennong family of the head of the cow are slightly closed, as if thinking and sleeping, the statue of Shennong and the millennium of simplicity embrace each other, the scenery is magnificent, the atmosphere is extraordinary, and it is magnificent. I said.

"Speaking of Shennongjia, it is currently the only well-preserved oasis in Chinese mainland and the only green treasure land in the middle latitudes of the world. According to legend, in ancient times, Shennong's had tasted herbs here to remove diseases for the people, because of the steep cliffs, rare medicinal herbs were not easy to pick, Shennong's felled wood and set up a frame, so later generations called this place Shennongjia. Dr. Jiang said proudly.

"This Shennong clan seems to be indeed an immortal-like existence, and it is really amazing to know things that others can't know." Sister Wang Na said.

"No one knows everything in a day, and the ancestors of Shennong have only gone through many attempts. It is recorded in the "Memories". One day, a bird with a red body, holding a colorful nine-eared valley, flew in the sky, and when it swept over the head of Shennong's family, the nine-eared valley fell to the ground, and Shennong's family saw it, picked it up and buried it in the soil, and then it grew into a piece. He rubbed the ears of grain in his hand and put them in his mouth, feeling delicious. So he taught people to cut down trees, cut weeds, and use axes, hoes, and plows to cultivate the land and grow grain. The ancestors got inspiration from here: millet can be planted every year, in a continuous stream, if there can be more plants and trees for human use, more planting, everyone's food problem is solved? At that time, grains and weeds grew together, herbs and flowers bloomed together, and no one could tell which ones could be eaten and which ones could not be eaten. Shennong's is the same taste, the same trial planting, and finally the rice, millet, millet, wheat, and soybean grains screened out from it, so later generations respect him as the master of five grains. There is also a story of eating grass to cure diseases, in fact, eating herbs is not unique to humans. Many animals have the phenomenon of taking medicine to cure diseases, indicating that long before humans became humans, human ancestors had instinctively accumulated a lot of knowledge of herbal medicine. After the rise of primitive agriculture, out of the need to find better crop types, people will pay more attention to understanding the characteristics of plants while tasting plants, not only pay attention to whether they are toxic or not, edible but not edible, but also pay attention to understanding the bitter, spicy and sweet taste of different plant species, different parts and different organs, as well as the characteristics of cold and temperature, so as to form a medical concept and start medical exploration in combination with the original knowledge of herbal medicine. It can also be said that the ancestors created the concept of medicine, which was formed in the process of primitive exploration of domesticating plants into crops, and was an unintentional invention of willows and willows, which should be the historical truth of Shennong's invention of medicine. "Dr. Jiang really talks about his ancestors, but this is very similar to Yun Ximing.

"But that's not what the story says?" Sister Wang Na said, "I remember that he has a divine whip?" I still remember the texts at that time. In ancient times, grains and weeds grew together, medicine and flowers bloomed together, and no one could tell which grains could be eaten and which herbs could cure diseases. The people of Li live by hunting, and the birds in the sky are getting fewer and fewer, and the animals in the ground are getting thinner and thinner, so people have to go hungry. Whoever wants to have sores and diseases, there is no medical treatment, and if you don't die, you have to shed your skin! The suffering of the common people, Shennong's eyes are in his eyes, and he is in his heart. Shennong pondered for three days and three nights, and finally came up with a solution. On the fourth day, he took a group of subjects and set out from his hometown of Lishan in Suizhou and walked to the northwest mountains. They walked too far, their legs were swollen, their feet were calloused, but they kept walking, and they walked for seven hundred and forty-nine days, and came to one place. I saw that the mountains were one peak after another, the canyons were one after another, the mountains were full of strange flowers and plants, and the fragrance was smelled from afar. Shennong and the others were walking forward, when suddenly a group of wolves, insects, tigers and leopards came out of the canyon and surrounded them. Shennong immediately asked his subjects to wield their whips and shoot at the beasts. It took seven days and seven nights to drive all the beasts away. Those tigers, leopards, and pythons were scarred by the divine whip, and later turned into markings on their skin. At this time, the subjects said that this place was too sinister and persuaded Shennong to go back. Shennong shook his head and said: Can't go back! The people of Li are hungry and have no food, and if they are sick and have no medical treatment, how can we go back! As he spoke, he led the way into the canyon to the foot of a vast mountain. This mountain is half cut into the clouds, and on all sides is a knife-cut cliff, and there is a waterfall hanging on the cliff, and there is moss, and the water is slippery, and it seems that there is no ladder to the sky. The subjects advised him to forget it again, and to go back as soon as possible. Shennong shook his head: I can't go back! The people of Li are hungry and have no food, and if they are sick and have no medical treatment, how can we go back! He stood on a small rocky mountain, facing the high mountain, looking left and right, making up his mind and thinking of a way. Then he saw several golden monkeys, crawling along the ancient vines hanging high and the rotten trees lying on the cliffside. Shennong had an idea, and he immediately called his subjects to him, telling them to cut wooden poles, cut rattans, and build a frame against the cliff, and build a layer a day, from spring to summer, from autumn to winter, no matter whether it is windy or rainy, or snow and ice, never stop working. It took a whole year and 360 floors to reach the top of the mountain. Shennong took his subjects, climbed the wooden frame, and went to the top of the mountain, hey! The mountain is really a world of flowers and plants, red, green, white, yellow, all kinds of colors, dense bushes. Shennong liked it very much, he told his subjects to guard against wolves, insects, tigers and leopards, and he personally picked flowers and plants and put them in his mouth to taste. In order to taste herbs here, find food and medicine for the common people, Shennong asked his subjects to plant a few rows of fir trees on the mountain, as a city wall to prevent wild beasts, and build thatched huts to live in the wall. During the day, he led his subjects to the mountains to taste the herbs, and at night, he asked his subjects to build a bonfire, and he wrote down them in detail by the light of the fire: which grasses were bitter, which were hot, which were cold, which were sufficient for hunger, and which were for healing.

Once, he put a piece of grass in his mouth and tasted it, and in an instant the world spun around and fell headlong. In times of crisis, it was Ganoderma lucidum grass that saved him, and even then he did not give up, tried for seven hundred and forty-nine days, and distinguished between poisonous weeds and grains, grains and herbs. Isn't this the story of Shennong tasting a hundred herbs? Why didn't there be a Ganoderma lucidum, and in the end he died? Sister Wang Na said sadly.

"It's a shame that you don't tell the story." Dr. Jiang said.

"Dr. Jiang, I'll ask you one last question." I said, "How did your parents and your wife die?" ”

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