"Shennong's Materia Medica" said: "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, encountered seventy-two poisons every day, and got tea to solve them." ”

The fact that Shennong got tea to detoxify shocked the Jade Emperor of Heaven.

Shennong tasted the herbs, looked for the grains, and looked for the fairy grass, so he came to the Tianxin Rock of Yunwu Mountain, ready to go down the mountain and go back. He looked around, but the wooden ladders were gone. It turns out that the green branches of the ladder and the bundled green rattan grow in the light and spit out the buds in the rain, and magically take root in the sky, and a forest grows over time.

When he was surprised, a crane suddenly flew in the sky and took Shennong to the Heavenly Palace. In the heavenly court filled with immortal energy, Shennong reported to the Jade Emperor the unforgettable experience of "tea cures seventy-two poisons" and saved his life.

The Jade Emperor was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately arranged for Shennong to return to the world, he wanted to taste the green leaves of this fragrance, and also wanted to see the true face of this magical leaf.

After returning to the world, Shennong was eager to plant tea, so he quickly planted tea seeds so that they could take root and sprout as soon as possible, so that they could use tea to make soup to heal their subjects in the coming year.

He then came to the Tianxin Rock of Yunwu Mountain to collect the tea leaves that had saved his life. Shennong found that the stout tea tree was full of tender leaves, and the fragrance was bursting. He plucked the young shoots from the tree, put them in a bamboo basket, and then retrieved the spring water nearby, and began to boil the water to make tea, and the boiling tea soup spread out, and the aroma soared to the sky.

According to the regulations, on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month every year, the Jade Emperor wants to drive the saint to descend to the mortal dust and personally inspect the situation of all parties.

At this time, the spirit monkey smelled the fragrance, and Shennong asked the spirit monkey to carry tea on his back to pay tribute to the Jade Emperor. Suddenly, an auspicious cloud appeared in the sky, and the spirit monkey was carrying tea to the top of Jingshan Mountain, and the Jade Emperor had just arrived from the Heavenly Palace to accept the tea soup offered by Shennong.

After the Jade Emperor tasted it carefully, his lips and teeth were fragrant, his heart was relaxed, and his body and mind were happy, so he handed the tea bowl to the spirit monkey, and rewarded the good and punished the evil according to the good and evil of all living beings.

At this time, the Jade Emperor used the net bottle to collect the tea fragrance, the spirit monkey at this time will carry a few pieces of spiritual buds to the Jade Emperor, a look at the spiritual buds, the Jade Emperor is very happy, only to see these few spiritual buds suddenly stretched out, revealing a strong aroma, and the spiritual buds of tea are included in the net bottle.

However, the naughty spirit monkey asked the Jade Emperor for a reward, and when he saw that the spirit monkey was cute, he casually rewarded it with a clean bottle. The spirit monkey danced with the net bottle, after a while, the spirit monkey climbed to the branch and rolled, accidentally, slipped the net bottle in its hand, instantly, the net bottle fell rapidly, happened to fall to the place where Shennong got tea detoxification - Jingshan Tianxin Rock Mountain, a magnificent picture of tea fairy slowly unfolded: Shennong planted tea, picked tea, boiled tea, served tea, and the warm scene of the Jade Emperor tasting tea, transformed into a magical "Heavenly Palace" wonder.

Soon, the spiritual buds in the net bottle will emerge on the top of the mountain, and the green and fragrant tea trees will emerge, and they will become the "tea ancestor tree" of Jingshan since then!

That night, Shennong lay under a big tree and fell asleep, he dreamed of a beautiful Sam Niangniang, and reminded him: "Shennong, this is a heavy task entrusted to you by God, you need to save your subjects, and the medicine for healing is hidden in the Jingshan Mountains!" ”

In the early hours of the morning, Shennong woke up from his dream and remembered that Sam had given him a dream last night. Shennong immediately got up, and with a group of strong subjects, set off from Lishan, day and night, and rushed to the depths of Jingshan in the northwest......

On a sunny morning, Shennong was so excited that he led his subjects into the mountains and valleys.

Suddenly, a group of wild beasts sprang out of the forest and surrounded them. Shennong immediately waved the divine whip and dispersed the beasts one by one.

The subjects were frightened and said, "This is too dangerous, so we might as well go back to Lishan."

Shennong said firmly: "No, you can't go back!" The people of Lebanon are suffering, what can we do when we go back? ”

After saying that, he was not afraid, and led the way to continue to advance into the deep mountain valley, when he was blocked by a towering mountain.

The subjects thought it was too difficult, and persuaded Shennong to forget it, or go home as soon as possible.

Shennong was not discouraged and said decisively: "I can't go back!" The sick people of the tribe are waiting to be healed, the panacea has not been found, and they can only wait for death when they go back! ”

Then he climbed onto a red rock and looked around at the mountain, wondering how he could get to the top.

Suddenly, he saw several spirit monkeys crawling over the hanging green vines and the fallen rotten trees on the mountainside.

Shennong suddenly realized and said in surprise: "Yes, follow me!" ”

He immediately arranged for his subjects to cut branches, cut rattans, and tie them up one by one against the cliff, and the ladders were raised layer by layer, so that they worked day after day, cold and summer, for more than a year, and finally built one hundred and sixteen floors (later generations called it "Baizhang Ladder") before they reached the top of the mountain.

Shennong confidently led his subjects up the ladder to the top of the mountain, and they cheered.

On this morning, Shennong climbed to the Jingshan Wild Ridge, divided the collected herbs into several piles according to the known varieties, and tried the medicinal properties respectively. When Shennong tasted a poisonous grass, he suddenly felt dry and dizzy, so he sat down with his back against a big tree to relieve his discomfort.

Suddenly, the wind rose on the mountain, the leaves on the trees were blown off, Shennong picked a few, smelled, the leaves emitted an attractive aroma, out of curiosity, put it in the mouth to chew, a fragrance spontaneously appeared, suddenly felt the bottom of the tongue, the spirit was lifted. Shennong was surprised, so he picked up a few more leaves to observe, and he found that the leaf shape, veins, and leaf margins of this kind of leaf were different from other leaves, so he picked some and brought them back to study carefully. But in the end, I didn't find it useful.

Jingshan is the kingdom of plants, the world of flowers and plants, densely grown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, colorful and gorgeous. Shennong was overjoyed.

One morning, an old man with silver hair hanging down his chest, holding a bamboo cane in his left hand and a bamboo basket in his right hand, appeared in front of Shennong, and the old man said: "I learned that you have worked hard for the people to heal the sick, and I have sent wild vegetables to nourish your body." The old man handed a handful of freshly picked wild vegetables to Shennong and left.

It turned out that Shennong's actions alarmed the mountain god who guarded Jingshan, and the mountain god came on the order of the Emperor of Heaven. The mountain god bamboo basket is filled with the mountain vegetables (talents) made of Jingshan spirit, and the immortal emperor gave the mountain vegetables (talents) to Shennong, which means that the talents (vegetables) are given to Shennong, so that Shennong has superhuman talents.

During the day, Shennong went to the mountains to taste the herbs, and at night he lit firewood, and recorded in detail the medicinal properties of various wild grasses according to the firelight: according to the properties of peace, poison, cold, and warmth, which ones can cure diseases, which ones can cure diseases, and which ones can satisfy hunger...... Keep a record of the same.

One day, Shennong climbed the cliff along a thorny sheep intestine trail in Yunwu Mountain, and passed along the canyon mountain stream...... At this time, he tasted hundreds of wild fruits and weeds as he walked, and unfortunately he was hit by seventy-two kinds of toxins.

He knew that he was not lightly poisoned, and that he could not speak so smoothly, so he tore a few familiar leaves from the bushes beside him, and immediately chewed and swallowed them to quench his hunger and thirst.

When the decoction was to be decocted, Shennong opened the lid of the pot, and suddenly a gust of mountain wind swept by, and the collected leaves floated into the water, and immediately smelled a fragrance from the pot, he approached curiously to take a closer look, only to see these leaves floating on the water, gradually turning yellow-green soup color in the boiling water, accompanied by bursts of faint fragrance, slowly emitting with the rise of water vapor.

Shennong scooped some juice with a gourd and drank it, and his intuition was full of fragrance. He hurriedly tasted a few mouthfuls of hot soup, and after drinking it, he returned to a mellow aroma, his body was not lacking, and his consciousness was also clear, these few leaves saved his life!

Soon, Shennong figured out a way to divide the leaves into dry products according to two preparation methods, so that they could be stored in the future and easy to eat. One is left to dry in the sun, and the other is dried over a firewood fire. Shennong compares the two, and feels that the dried leaves have a dull taste, but the dried leaves have a strong fragrance. Shennong mostly uses the drying method. He also brewed the dried leaves with the boiling water of the mountain spring and drank it, and saw that the soup was clear and pure and refreshing.

Mortals don't know that he has a secret. That is, he has a naturally transparent belly, and only when he looks at his belly, the internal organs are clear at a glance...... From his transparent stomach, Shennong could see the wriggling of the soup made of leaves, and found that the pale yellow soup was slowly flowing up and down in the stomach, killing and cleaning up the toxins in the stomach one by one. He recognized that the leaves were beneficial to the human body. Shennong Dayue, and take its leaves to boil and try to take, and found that it does have the effects of quenching thirst, refreshing the mind, diuresis and detoxification.

Tea was discovered!