The Eighth Age, Shennong Hundred Herbs Chapter 6 Taste the Hundred Herbs

Emperor Fuxi and Nuwa Niangniang listened to Shennong's statement with relish, and they were so happy. They really couldn't imagine that their son was so amazing and so accomplished. I didn't expect Emperor Yan to have such a broad mind, their Yan'er is so great, the Emperor and Niangniang are proud to have such a child.

So, Emperor Fuxi said with emotion: "Yan'er, you are worthy of being the savior of the world, and I admire you too much for my father." From now on, I will no longer meddle in the affairs of the world, and I will leave the entire fertile land of China in the land of Shenzhou to you to manage. I believe that you will be able to govern our peaceful and prosperous world better, more ideally, and more prosperously. Yan'er, when I was in the lower realm of the heavens, the Emperor Taihuang once asked me to pay attention to the heroes of the world, and he asked me to find a person who could make great contributions to the world as the 'human emperor' who helped the world and prospered the country. I think the honor of 'Human Emperor' belongs to you.

Yan'er, no matter how hard and difficult it is in the future, everything in the world will be entrusted to you. In the future, my father and your mother will not be able to help you, and we will return to my hometown Tianshui to enjoy the blessings. Good son, you just continue to work hard, and support you for both father and mother. ”。

Shennong said modestly: "Thank you Emperor Tai Tian and my father and mother for their support and encouragement. Father, Yan'er just did a trivial thing for the people, and he was so affirmed by the Emperor of Heaven. The honor of 'human emperor', the child seems to be unable to bear it, and the child deserves such a heavy responsibility! ”

Nuwa Niangniang also encouraged Emperor Yan and said: "Yan'er, our world will be entrusted to you, you must continue to do your best for the people of the world, and you must also take good care of your body, cherish, child!" ”

Emperor Yan agreed while nodding tearfully. Nuwa Niangniang turned to look at her daughter-in-law and listened, he looked at her son Emperor Yan again, and Niangniang stretched out her hands to hold them together.

The mother told them: "Listen, my good daughter! It is also a blessing from God that we have a good daughter-in-law like you. With you by Yan'er's side, we are very relieved and content. Yan'er, since you are the leader of the Chinese clan, you must always remember that you are the descendants of the dragon god and do not embarrass the dragon clan. In the future, you need to work harder, and you must lead everyone to continue to struggle. The children! You have to take care of yourself, for the sake of your father and mother, you will leave, and we will have a date later. ”

Emperor Yan and heard that Emperor Fuxi and Nuwa Niangniang were about to leave, and the husband and wife hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to their parents. At the end of the ceremony, they brought all kinds of food, pottery, and other utensils to their parents. In the end, I reluctantly bid farewell to my parents.

Since the departure of the emperor and Niangniang, Shennong has continued to lead everyone to make pottery, make farm tools, cultivate land, and sow grain. Later, he explored the cultivation methods of various crops such as melons and fruits.

After instructing people to make fire and use fire, tribal breeding, marriage, cultivation of grains, raising livestock and other living abilities. Shennong's has also cultivated a large number of outstanding talents in agriculture, fishery, weaving, handicraft and other aspects. Through the joint efforts of everyone, everything in Shennong is on the right track.

Shennong's encouragement of production and meritocracy, he was relieved to leave everything to his ministers. The ministers have made the country their home and have enjoyed their home. They soon put the Shennong Kingdom in order and became more and more prosperous.

After Shennong taught people to farm the land, he saw that people often got sick and incurable because of indiscriminate eating, and sometimes even died, Shennong found that in the face of disease, human beings had no choice but to wait for death to come.

Shennong's eyes made him very anxious when he saw that his people were often plagued by illness. As a result, the Shennong clan handed over the affairs of Shennong Kingdom to his son "Yanju" for the time being. He is ready to go to the world to find the best divine herbs and good medicines to cure all kinds of diseases in the world.

Shennong was determined to taste all the plants in the world for himself, so that people could distinguish what was edible and what was not. What is a harmful poisonous weed, and what is a good medicine that can cure diseases and save people.

After making up his mind, Shennong asked his wife to make three large pockets out of linen cloth for him. He hung one pocket on the left side of his body, he hung the other on the right side of his body, and he carried the third one behind his back.

Shennong decided to record the characteristics of various weeds in writing down when tasting them, and then put each flower and plant in a classified category. If you think it's non-toxic and edible, put it in your left pocket and let people eat it in the future. If you think it can cure a disease, put it in your right pocket and use it as a medicine in the future. If you feel that it is poisonous and inedible, put it in your pocket and mark it with text to remind people to be careful and not to eat.

On this day, the Shennong clan is about to set off. As soon as he was about to leave, his wife told him: "Emperor Yan, there is no way to know the toxicity of the herbs, and you must not taste them without permission." After all, there are hundreds of poisons hidden in the herbs, and eating it with your own mouth is directly related to people's lives, and it is really not sloppy. The courtier's wife heard that the Emperor of Heaven had a crimson whip called the 'ochre whip'. Emperor Yan, if you set off this time, it is better to go directly to the sky to get the ochre whip. It is said that the grass and trees that have been whipped with ochre will immediately turn black or brownish-gray, and will emit a special smell. Maybe you whip the grass first, and then choose the grass to taste. In this way, the risk is avoided, the safety is ensured, and the judgment of the medicinal properties of the herbs and trees is more accurate and clear. ”

When Emperor Yan heard this, he suddenly opened, and he said, "What the fairy wife said is extremely true. It's just that I'm just an ordinary man, how can I go to heaven? ”

Tingyu smiled slightly: "Emperor Yan, you have forgotten that I am a fairy in the sky." I've got you covered! ”

Emperor Yan looked at the immortal wife and immediately came to the spirit. He said, "Then I will also borrow the power of the fairy wife to go to the heavenly kingdom?" Or will the fairy wife go with me? ”

Hearing this, she burst into tears, and she said, "Emperor Yan doesn't know, since I left Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother, I have been missing the second elder every day. However, I was afraid that they would not let me come back after I returned to heaven. In that case, wouldn't the two of us be separated from each other again? Because, I'm not willing to leave you! ”

Emperor Yan couldn't help but be moved when he heard this, he comforted the fairy wife and said: "Fairy wife, I can't give you anything, and I have to drag you down to suffer with me, it's really hard for you." ”

Listening to the words: "Emperor Yan, it's nothing, I feel very happy to be able to endure hardships with you." ”

Emperor Yan said: "Immortal wife, how should I go to heaven?" ”

He said: "Emperor Yan, as far as I know, the closest road we have to heaven is to go to the 'Duguang no Ye' in Cangshan. First, go there and find a big tree called 'Jianmu'. If you climb up along the building wood, you can climb to the heavenly court. ”

Emperor Yan said: "Where is the field of Duguang? What does Jianmu look like? ”

He said, "Well, I'll be the guide, and we'll take a few more people to look for it, right?" ”

So, Emperor Yan, Tingyu, and a few courtiers, they marched together to the field of the capital. They set out from the mountains and headed for the mountains to the northwest. They walked and walked, their legs were swollen, their feet were calloused, but they still kept walking, and everyone walked for 7749 days before they came to a place.

I saw that the mountains here are one peak after another, the canyons are one after another, the mountains are full of strange flowers and plants, and people smell the strong fragrance from afar. Shennong plucked some fresh grass and smelled it, he didn't dare to conclude that it was poisonous or not, so he let people continue to hurry.

Later, they walked into the canyon and came to the foot of a large mountain. No one knows how high this mountain is. I saw that the upper half of the mountain was inserted in the clouds, and on all sides was a cliff like a knife and an axe, and there was a thousand-foot waterfall hanging on the cliff, and there was moss growing on the edge of the cliff, and the moss was slippery and slippery.

When he arrived here, he said excitedly: "Emperor Yan, Duguang Zhiye is here." Why can't I find Jianmu? It seems that you can't go up without a ladder to the sky. ”

Emperor Yan was also very excited, he stood on a small stone mountain, looked at the high mountain, looked down, looked left, and looked right. Then he saw a few golden monkeys, crawling and crawling over the ancient vines hanging high and the rotten trees that fell on the edge of the cliff.

Shennong's had an idea. He asked, "Fairy wife, Jianmu, Jianmu, are we building a wooden ladder ourselves?" ”

Hearing this, he patted his head and said, "Emperor Yan, I just heard that there is a wooden ladder, and it seems that we built a wooden ladder to ascend to the sky ourselves." ”

So, Emperor Yan, together with his courtiers, they cut wooden poles, cut rattans, and built wooden shelves against the cliffs. They build a layer a day, from spring to summer, from autumn to winter, no matter whether it is windy, rainy, snowy and frozen, they never stop working.

It took a whole year for everyone to build a total of 360 floors before the ladder was built to the top of the mountain. With everyone's help, Shennong climbed the wooden ladder and finally stepped to the top of the mountain.

At this time, Shennong's eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw a heavenly gate slowly opening, and on both sides of the heavenly gate were a team of majestic heavenly soldiers. The Shennong clan didn't dare to look around, so they could only ask the path to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall in a proper manner.

Shennong entered the gate of heaven, but saw that the sky was really a world of flowers and plants: red, green, white, yellow, blue, purple, all kinds of colors, dense bushes, red flowers and willow green, competing for beauty.

Shennong was overjoyed, and he thought that everyone was waiting for him below. He couldn't help but feel a little anxious, he was about to run a few steps, but he saw that his legs and feet were no longer obedient, and it turned out that he was already floating in the clouds.

Shennong's clan picked some fairy grass from his side, and then staggered towards an immortal hall. When I entered the immortal hall, I saw a kind and solemn person sitting in front of me, and it turned out that he was the Emperor of Heaven.

Shennong's clan was sincerely afraid to see the Emperor of Heaven on the ground, and after making a big salute, the Emperor of Heaven gave him a divine whip. The Emperor told him that this divine whip was called the 'ochre whip', and that it was very effective to whip herbs with ochre. These herbs are whipped by the ochre whip, poisonous and non-toxic, whether they are cold or warm, and various medicinal properties are naturally expressed.

Shennong took this divine whip and walked out of the gate of heaven happily, he was about to go down the mountain and go back. However, when Shennong came to the edge of the cliff, he looked down the mountain and found that the wooden ladders built all over the mountain were gone.

Originally, the wooden poles that built the ladder were all fresh trees. After that, they actually took root, and after being exposed to the sun and rain, they naturally spit out new shoots. After a long time, they grew into a vast green forest. Later, people affectionately called that place "Shennongjia".

Shennong looked around and was in trouble, and suddenly a fairy flew from under the mountain. Shennong's eyes were fixed, she was none other than his immortal wife. Hearing this, he picked up the Shennong clan and flew back to the bottom of the mountain in the capital of Guangnoye.

When the Shennong clan and the others came back from the capital of Guangnoye, they found that the courtiers who came with them were too old to walk. He arranged for them to live in a "wooden city" made of fir walls.

After appeasing the old ministers, the Shennong clan and the fairy wife listened to the news, and went from the capital to all parts of the world to find herbs, and they walked all the way to the whip. He also put the whipped flowers and plants in his mouth one by one to taste.

All the flowers and plants that Shennong's clan tasted, he seriously recorded them in detail. For example: which grasses are bitter and cold, which grasses are hot, which grasses are warm, and which grasses are cool. Which grasses can replace food to satisfy hunger, which grasses can drive away temperature and dispel cold and cure diseases, which grasses have great poison and strong poison, and which grasses have slight poison and small poison.

Shennong never let go of every subtlety, even the color, smell, shape, characteristics, etc. of the flowers and plants he tasted, he sorted them out one by one, and wrote them one by one.

Once, Shennong found an artemisia grass, and after he whipped it, he put it in his mouth and tasted it. At this moment, he suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and he fell to the ground and lost consciousness.

Frightened to see this, she hurriedly helped him sit up. Shennong also knew in his heart that he had been poisoned, but at this time he could no longer speak. There was no way, so he had to use his last bit of strength to point to a bright red Ganoderma lucidum grass in front of him, and then to his mouth.

Hearing this, she hurriedly put the red lingzhi grass in her mouth and chewed it, and then fed it to Shennong's mouth. After Shennong's eating Ganoderma lucidum grass, the poisonous gas was also relieved, his head was no longer dizzy, and he was slowly able to speak. Since then, Shennong has called Ganoderma lucidum grass an elixir that can bring the dead back to life.

After Shennong's distress this time, I heard that it was too dangerous for him to taste all kinds of herbs like this, what if he encountered such a situation again? The courtiers also advised him to go down the mountain and go back.

However, with the spirit of perseverance, Shennong's family just refused to give up halfway. Despite everyone's persuasion, he continued to taste all kinds of herbs. After tasting a mountain of flowers and plants, he went to another mountain to taste them.

When Shennong's encountered a place where the mountain was high and the water was deep, he still climbed it with a wooden pole. In the days of wind and rain, he has watched the sun rise and the moon set, admired the sea of white waves and clouds, shuttled through the fog, and encountered the ethereal scenery.

Shennong's trekked through mountains and rivers and walked all over the land of China. He tasted herbs for 7749 years, and he traveled all over the mountains and rivers of the earth. He tasted the medicinal properties and pharmacology of 365 kinds of herbs, and wrote the "Materia Medica", the crystallization of his own painstaking efforts.

Once, a patient was suddenly ill, and the herbs he needed were hard to find. Shennong searched for a long time, and finally found that the herb grew on a steep rock wall. Moreover, this rock wall is so high, steep and smooth that there is no place to settle at all, and it is difficult for even apes to climb.

When all the people saw this, they shook their heads again and again, sighing that the place where this herb grew was too high and too dangerous. If you want to go up, I'm afraid it's harder than climbing to the sky. However, Shennong was eager to save people, so he took the lead in erecting a wooden ladder, and he slowly climbed up the ladder, and finally climbed to the top of the rock, picked the herbs needed by the patient, and saved the patient.

On this day, Shennong found many small pale red flowers on a hillside, which were shaped like fluttering butterflies. Shennong's first whip, and then picked a small flower into the mouth, only to feel sweet, fragrant, Shennong named this flower and plant "licorice". Because licorice is a good medicine for good health, he put it in his right pocket.

Another day, because of long-term fatigue, Shennong's felt dizzy, red-faced, and dry-mouthed. In addition, he didn't know what he had eaten, and his heart was swollen and very uncomfortable. So, he wanted to find some herbs to eat to relieve his fatigue.

Who knows, Shennong's went out and walked for a while, and he saw a low green bush in front of him, and there were many cute little young leaves growing on these trees. Shennong happened to be thirsty, so he picked a few slices, put them in his mouth and chewed them.

Shennong's chewing, he immediately felt his tongue stinging, and he really quenched his thirst. Shennong picked a few more pieces, and as soon as he took them into his mouth, he saw those small leaves sliding down his esophagus into his stomach. Moreover, he saw the small young leaves floating in his stomach, and he felt something rubbing up and down his stomach.

Because Shennong's stomach was transparent, he saw that these small leaves had scrubbed his internal organs clean, refreshing, and Shennong's also felt very comfortable. So, Shennong put it in his left pocket as a good medicine.

This discovery made Shennong very happy. He concluded that this small leaf could both quench thirst and detoxify. Therefore, Shennong decided that if he encountered poison in the process of tasting the medicine, he would use it to resolve the poison so that the poisoned person could be rescued in time. Shennong's called this kind of small leaf "cha" (cha, which means to check or observe).

"Cha" is also what people often say "tea" later, this kind of small leaf is tea. Shennong's walked all the way, tasted herbs all the way, and "declared medicine to cure diseases" for the people all the way. His footprints are all over the rivers, mountains and mountains. He used the medicine he knew to save the lives of countless people.

In order to save the death, injury, illness, and life of the people, Shennong's family prolonged their lives. He trekked through mountains and rivers, traveled all over the land of China, tasted all the herbs, and understood the medicinal properties of the herbs, which were calm, poisonous, cold and warm. In order to find a cure for the disease and detoxification of his people, he chewed almost all the plants.

Moreover, in the process of tasting the herbs, Shennong gradually identified the herbs and discovered the traditional Chinese medicine that has the effects of attacking poison and dispelling diseases, and maintaining health care. As a result, he made the people "save" and heal, so he was called the "god of medicine" by the people.

Among them, there are 398,000 kinds of flowers, grasses, roots, stems, and leaves that Shennong has tasted. In the process of tasting herbs, he often encountered poisoning. He also once encountered "seventy poisons in one day", and it was "Cha" that resolved his toxicity and saved his life. So, thanks to "Cha Ye", he was rescued.

In the process of tasting the herbs, Shennong also discovered that each herb has a unique variety of tastes such as sweet, sour, bitter and spicy. Through his exploration, he discovered the relationship between disease and the smell of grass.

Therefore, Shennong's gave the bitter herbs to the person who coughed incessantly, and the person's cough was immediately relieved. He gave the sour herbs to the person with a sick stomach to eat, and the person's stomach did not hurt. He gave the spicy herbs to the people who were suffering from the cold and cold, and the person's body was much warmer and more comfortable.

Another time, according to the transparent characteristics of his belly, Shennong wanted to observe and experience what he ate in his stomach. After entering the body, see which meridians they will take, what kind of properties they have, and what kind of diseases they can cure.

Shennong's went deep into the mountains and old forests to pick all kinds of grass roots, bark, seeds, and fruits. To catch all kinds of birds, animals, fish, turtles, shrimp and insects. Go and dig for all kinds of stone minerals. Then, taste the same in person.

He found that after these herbs entered the body, each herb lingered in one of the body's meridians according to its own characteristics. Moreover, all the herbs only go around in the twelve meridians, never beyond that. Therefore, according to the characteristics of these herbs in the meridians of the human body, Shennong discovered and understood the twelve meridians in the human body.

In this way, Shennong passed through many places every day and saw many kinds of animals and plants. He screened and tasted all the plants he saw every day, and then classified them into categories to calm down the medicinal properties. These types of drugs were marked, registered, and recorded, and sorted out and filled in the medical books he collected, and later these precious medical cases were handed down.

In fact, the medical books written by Shennong's family were all completed at the risk of his life. During this period, Shennong's was almost poisoned to death many times in the process of testing the properties of the medicine. Fortunately, he had brought the tea with him beforehand, and he was also equipped with some antidotes, which he was often rescued by himself.

Even when Shennong was one hundred and twenty years old, he still did not escape the disaster of being poisoned by poisonous weeds. That time, in order to treat a critically ill patient, Shennong's was not afraid to sacrifice himself to try medicine.

On this day, Shennong went to the field to look for medicine, and he suddenly found a plant climbing on a tree. The plant grows very vigorously, with bright yellow flowers and large, fat and wide leaves. Shennong was so anxious that he forgot to whip it with an ochre whip, so he picked the leaves and flowers and put them in his mouth and chewed them.

Who knows, Shennong's negligence doesn't matter, this time he unfortunately tasted the poison "Broken Intestine Grass" containing highly poison. This poisonous weed is so powerful that before Shennong's could swallow "Cha" to detoxify, its toxicity attacked.

As soon as Shennong swallowed the Broken Intestine Grass, he immediately felt that his entire body and mind and internal organs were about to explode. He felt as if he had been cut by a knife and axe, and the heart-rending pain made him unable to survive or die. Shennong's inhuman torture eventually led to a broken intestine and died.

Since then, a generation of "gods of farming" and "gods of medicine", the ancestor of the god of agriculture and medicine of Shennong, Yandi Shennong, has turned into a dazzling star and fallen into reincarnation in the vast sea of people.

And Yanju, the son of Emperor Yan, inherited the legacy of the Shennong clan, took over the banner of Emperor Yan, and led the entire Hualong nation to continue to struggle. Later, together with his children and grandchildren, Yan Ju followed the mantle of Emperor Yan's heavy agriculture and heavy medicine, and successfully passed on and multiplied the Yandi family for 800 years.

The spirit of Shennong has inspired generations of Hualong descendants, who insist on slash-and-burn farming, take root in the earth, and plant grains all over the world. Later, after a long period of accumulation, they found more good prescriptions. In this way, the patient's pain is better healed, the people's physique is enhanced, and the life span of human beings is prolonged.

Later, the descendants of Shennong, according to the long-term accumulation of medical knowledge of Shennong and his descendants, compiled a medical masterpiece "Shennong's Materia Medica", which deepened people's infinite worship and admiration for Yandi Shennong. However, this pioneer of agriculture and medicine has since been recognized by the Chinese as the originator of human civilization. The story of Shennong tasting a hundred herbs has therefore become an immortal chapter that people never get tired of hearing.