readx;? In order to grow crops in large quantities, it is first necessary to select suitable plant species and domesticate them into crop varieties, such as rice, millet, millet, wheat, and soybean; second, it is necessary to have agricultural tools, such as plowing and plowing; and third, it is necessary to master the agricultural time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info These require long-term technological progress and knowledge accumulation, and they are by no means something that can be done overnight, even if a person is difficult to do in his whole life. Therefore, Shennong's has gone through a long stage of primitive agricultural development before. During the Shennong period, the previous agricultural development achievements were systematically summarized and the problems of agricultural tools were solved.

In primitive societies, slash-and-burn cultivation can only be harvested in the sky in a large way, and in the event of natural disasters, it may lead to no harvest. "Master Training" cloud: "In the past, Shennong's rule of the world was also, God was not in the chest, wisdom did not come out of the four domains, with its benevolent and sincere heart, sweet rain when it fell, five grains were planted, spring and summer were long, autumn harvest and winter hiding, the month was saved and the time was examined, and the end of the year was dedicated, so as to taste the grain and worship the time." In order to encourage people to live regularly and cultivate crops according to the seasons, the Shennong clan and its descendants inherited the calendar of the Nuwa era and improved it into their own calendar, which was the prototype of the lunar calendar. Divided into day and night, the sun and the moon are fixed, the month is the 30th day, and the November is the winter solstice.

"White Tiger Pass": "The ancient people all ate poultry and animal meat, as for Shennong, there are many people, and there are not enough birds and beasts, so Shennong is because of the time of the sky, the benefits of the land, the system of plowing, teaching the people to farm, and the gods turn it, so that the people are suitable, so it is called Shennong." "

Heal hemp for cloth, and the people wear clothes. In the past, people used kudzu cloth, and Shennong taught people to use hemberry as cloth, which further enriched the source of raw materials for cloth.

Shennong further improved the production of bows and arrows, effectively prevented the attack of wild beasts, effectively cracked down on the invasion of foreign tribes, and protected people's lives and the fruits of labor.

Shennong manages the tribe and has a very good way to govern the world. Don't expect it, don't be greedy for the wealth of the world, and the world is rich. Wisdom is more valuable than others, and the world respects it. With virtue and righteousness, the people are diligent without reward, evil and righteous without punishment, rich without resentment, the people obey without orders, powerful but not killed, and the law is not annoying, and the people are all respected.

Shennong teaches people to use tools, teach people to sow grains, teach people medicine, teach people to make pottery and painting, teach people to bow and arrow, hunt animals, fitness, teach people to make pianos, teach people music, dance, and also teach people wisdom and virtue.

"Shiben Composition" records: "Shennong made the piano. The Shennong piano is three feet six inches long. There are five strings on it, called Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, and Yu. "New Treatise on the Way of the Qin" clearly says: "The qin is also made by Shennong." "Shennong began to cut the tong for the piano, practice the silk for the strings, with the virtue of the gods, and the harmony of heaven and earth. Shennong's is the five strings of the qin, which is enough to pass through all things and test the chaos. In the book "Yang Zi", it is written: "In the past, there were Shennong who made a piano to fix the spirit, forbid obscenity, and remove evil desires, and those who opposed it were naïve. "The five strings on the Shennong qin are called Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, and Yu, which are actually the pentatonic scale referred to in Chinese folk music. There is also Shennong "to make a five-stringed piano, to teach people to be the market in the middle of the day, to trade and retreat, and to get their own place." "Make a five-stringed harp, to delight the people. This kind of qin was later called Shennongqin.

The improvement of productivity has made people's lives relatively stable, and people no longer move around for the sake of life, but have begun to live and work in peace and contentment, which has led to the development of social civilization. "Qi Vulgar Training" cloud: "Shennong's law says: If the husband Ding Zhuang does not plow, there are those in the world who suffer from his hunger; Therefore, he cultivated himself, and his wife weaved, thinking that he was the first in the world. ...... Evil is not born, there is nothing to do, and the world is peaceful. This reflected the scene of the society at that time for the common good, unity and fraternity, and the people living and working in peace and contentment. At that time, there was already a family form of "ploughing and weaving", which was a sign of the emergence of a patrilineal clan society. At that time, the transition from a matrilineal clan society to a patrilineal clan society had already begun, and there was a marriage system with the conclusion and marriage ceremony, which made the role of the family in the primitive society more obvious, and people had a preliminary understanding of the moral theory of the family.

The abundance of material production in primitive society brought about a surplus of products. Judging from the legends recorded in ancient books, the exchange of primitive products began to sprout at the time of Emperor Yan Shennong. "Yi Zhi Ci" cloud: "Shennong takes Japan and China as the market, to the people of the world, gathers the goods of the world, trades and retreats, and each has its own place." It means that in order to solve everyone's surplus products, the Yandi period set up a bazaar for everyone to exchange with each other, resulting in the emergence of primitive commodity trading in Chinese society, accelerating the transformation of public ownership in primitive society to private ownership in slave society, and laying the groundwork for the birth of a new social system.

Another great achievement of Shennong was the creation of Chinese medicine and medical skills.

"Compendium of Easy Knowledge" records: "The people have diseases, unknown medicine stones, the Yan Emperor began to plant and wood, observed its cold, warm, peaceful, and hot nature, distinguished its king, ministers, Zuo, and made it righteous, tasted one day and encountered seventy poisons, and the gods turned into them, so they made a document to treat the people's diseases and the way of medicine began from then on." "Historical Records: Supplement to the Three Emperors" said: Shennong's made wax sacrifices, whipped grass and trees with ochre, tasted herbs, and began to have medicine. "Huainanzi Cultivation Training" is also said: Shennong tasted the taste of a hundred herbs, and encountered seventy poisons in one day. Jin Ganbao's "Sou Shen Ji" Volume 1: "Shennong whipped a hundred grasses with an ochre whip, knowing its peaceful poison, cold and warm nature, and the smell of the main thing, so as to sow a hundred grains." ”

It is rumored that Shennong is a delicate jade body. It can be seen that its lungs are good and the five organs are good, because it can dissolve the poison. It is also said that Shennong died because he tasted centipedes and could not detoxify them. Legend has it that Shennong's appearance is very peculiar, his body is thin, and his body is transparent except for his limbs and head, so the internal organs are clearly visible. Shennong's taste of all kinds of herbs, as long as the herbs are poisonous, his internal organs will be black after ingestion, so what herbs have an effect on which part of the human body can be easily known. And in this way, he taught people the earliest work of mankind, "Shennong's Materia Medica". Later, because Shennong took too many poisons, the poison was too deep, and he finally died.

Eating grass to cure diseases is not unique to humans. Many animals eat grass to cure diseases, indicating that long before humans became humans, human ancestors had instinctively accumulated a lot of knowledge about 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. In other words, the concept of medicine was formed in the process of primitive exploration of domesticating plants into crops, and it was an invention of "unintentionally inserting willows into the shade". This should be the historical truth of Shennong's invention of medicine.