Chapter 2 Shennongqin

readx;? Until the husk falls off, revealing the golden millet. www.biquge.info This work is generally done by women, this is the most interesting weight loss exercise for women in ancient times, and sweat wets their drooping hair. After this pastime, both women and millet become glamorous and cute. The stone grinding disc used by women in the Shennong era is still unearthed, and the middle part is often concave (this is the result of grinding), and the residual temperature of the sweat of ancient women is left on it.

Although the stone grinding disc is good, it is easy to run away and fall out of the grinding disc. Therefore, Shennong's invented the "pestle mortar" (Nian Chu uncle) for everyone, just like the thing used in pharmacies to pound medicine, the bottom is pot-shaped, and the rice will not be crushed out.

Shennong, the inventor of agriculture and medicine in Han folklore, tasted all kinds of herbs and taught people medicine and farming. Because of these two important contributions, he is known as the "King of Medicine", "King of Grains", "Emperor of Grains" and "Emperor Shennong", etc., as the gods in charge of medicine and agriculture, not only can bless agricultural harvests and people's health, but also are regarded as guardian saints by hospitals and medicine stores. It is the grandfather of Chinese medicine.

In fact, not all of these grains appeared in the Shennong period. As early as the Fuxi era, rice, millet (millet), and sorghum (sorghum) appeared. Wheat, barley, and soybean (beans, similar to lentils) were first cultivated in West Asia around the Mediterranean, and later introduced to China, and wheat did not appear in the Central Plains during the Shennong period. In the early days of human beings, there were only the above six main food crops, among which China has not been very suitable for barley cultivation, so rice, wheat, millet, soybean and soybean are called five grains. Among them, there are three with China as their origin. Today, bread is the staple food of the West, indicating that their main food crops are barley and wheat. Shennong, on the other hand, only systematically summarized the cultivation rules of these crops, discovered a large number of vegetable varieties and herbal varieties that could be used for edible and medicinal purposes, and distinguished wild grasses from them. The greatest contribution was the breeding of buffaloes, the invention of the plough for farming, and the use of oxen to pull the plow. The burden on agriculture has been greatly reduced.

After the Shennong clan taught the people to plant grains, they did not only rely on the sky to harvest, but also taught the people to dig wells to draw water, irrigate crops, and create a water conservancy irrigation technology connected by nine wells. Because of his invention of farming technology, he was called Shennong. With the advent of agriculture, the fruits of human labor have been surplus, at this time, Shennong's set up a bazaar, so that everyone can not eat, can not be used food and things, every day at noon to the bazaar to exchange, so that there is the original commodity trade in China.

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. All of this requires long-term technological progress and knowledge accumulation, and it is by no means possible overnight, even in the lifetime of a person. 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, Shennong made also." "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.