Chapter 3 Shennong tastes a hundred herbs

readx;? The following is the legend of Shennong's clan:

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. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe 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, and 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. How to feed the people's hunger and how to cure the people's diseases? Shennong pondered and meditated 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 (Hubei) Suizhou Lishan (town) to the northwest mountain (Shennongjia). They walked and walked, and their legs were swollen and their feet were calloused, but they kept walking, and they walked for seven hundred and forty-nine days, and they 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. They beat away a group, and then they came up again, and they fought for seven days and seven nights before they drove 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, "We 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 said, leading the way into the canyon and coming 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 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 up, looking down, left and right, making up his mind and thinking of a way. Later, people called the small mountain where he stood "Wangnong Pavilion". Then he saw several golden monkeys, crawling along the ancient vines hanging high and the rotten trees lying on the cliffside. He immediately called his subjects and told them to cut wooden poles, cut rattans, and build a frame against the mountain cliff, and build a layer a day, from spring to summer, from autumn to winter, no matter whether it was windy, rainy, snowy, or frozen, he never stopped working. It took a whole year and 360 floors to reach the top of the mountain. Legend has it that the scaffolding used by people to build buildings later was to learn from Shennong's method.

Shennong took his subjects to climb the wooden frame and went to the top of the mountain. 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. Later, people called the place where Shennong lived "Mucheng".

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. The subjects hurriedly helped him to sit up, he knew that he had been poisoned, but he could no longer speak, so he had to use his last strength to point to a bright red Ganoderma lucidum grass in front of him, and then to his mouth. The subjects hurriedly put the red lingzhi in their mouths to chew and feed it to him. Shennong ate Ganoderma lucidum grass, the poison gas was dissolved, his head was not dizzy, and he could speak. Since then, people have said that Ganoderma lucidum grass can bring the dead back to life. The subjects were worried that it would be too dangerous for him to taste the grass like this, and they advised him to go down the mountain and go back. He shook his head again and said, "We can't go back!" How can we go back if the people are hungry and have no food or medical treatment for their illnesses!

After tasting a mountain of flowers and plants, he went to another mountain to taste them, and climbed them up by using wooden poles to build a frame. I have been tasting it for 7749 days, and I have walked all over the mountains and mountains here. He tasted wheat, rice, millet, and sorghum to satisfy hunger, so he asked his subjects to bring back the seeds and let the people of Li plant them, which became the five grains later. He tasted 365 kinds of herbs, dictated the "Shennong Materia Medica", and asked his subjects to bring it back to cure the people of the world.

After Shennong tasted the herbs, he found the five grains that filled the hunger and the herbs for the people of Limin, and came to Huisheng Village, ready to go down the mountain to go back. When he looked around, the wooden frames that had been built all over the mountains were gone. It turned out that those wooden poles that had been erected took root on the ground, spit out buds in the rain, and grew into a vast forest sea over the years. Shennong was in a dilemma, and suddenly a group of white cranes flew in the sky, taking him and several subjects who were protecting him to the heavenly court. Since then, Huisheng Village has been full of fragrance all year round.

In order to commemorate Shennong's achievements in tasting herbs and benefiting the world, the common people named this vast forest sea "Shennongjia". The Huisheng Village of Shennong's ascension to heaven was renamed "Liuxiang Village".

"Shennong's Materia Medica" records: The doctor is not the third generation, and he does not take his medicine. Kong Chongyuan quoted the old saying: The third generation, one is the Yellow Emperor acupuncture, the second is Shennong's Materia Medica, and the third is the Su Nu Pulse. Kangcheng Zhou Li Note, also said: five medicines, grass, wood, insects, stones, grains. The Qi of its governance is the art of Shennong Ziyi, which is the so-called cautious Qi of the ritual note, which refers to the books of Materia Medica. Chong Yuan not only quoted the old theory, but also suspected that it was not Zheng Yi's excess. Hanshu cites the Materia Medica and the Art and Literature Chronicles, Jia Gongyan cites the Chinese scriptures, and there is a volume of Ziyi's Materia Medica, which does not say that it comes from Shennong. To the Sui scriptures, the first three volumes of Shennong's Materia Medica, which are in line with the upper, middle and lower grades of the three products, should be the old book since the Han Dynasty.

Shennong Cave Stele: On the Lie Mountain, which is 55 kilometers away from Suizhou City, there are stone tables, stone benches, stone bowls and stone couches in the cave, etc., which are said to be the utensils used by Shennong's family. There are also ancient buildings such as Shennongjing, Shennong's house, Shennongguan, and Yandi Temple in Lieshan. There is a monument of "Yandi Shennong's" in the north of Lishan Town, which has been preserved to this day.

Shennong, who tasted a hundred herbs, did not really call the king, Shennong was busy making contributions to the people all his life, tasting herbs, establishing a traditional Chinese medicine system, it is not easy for ordinary people to complete an invention in their lives, how can they still be able to make achievements in politics. Shennong finally bid farewell to the world because of the toxic attack.