Chapter 48 Shennong tastes a hundred herbs
And at this time, the big war is in place. Slowly, the endless Buddha and Bodhisattva in the Buddha land began to break and fuse, and gradually formed a big Buddha, standing proudly between heaven and earth, I don't know how many thousands of miles there are. However, at this time, there was a giant dragon wrapped around the Buddha's body, which shows how big this dragon is.
There is no good way for the Buddha to be entangled by the dragon, although the dragon is entangled in the Buddha, it can only be like this, and there is no good way to deal with the Buddha for a while.
Putting aside the wrestling between the two, let's switch perspectives. At this time, there was a break in the time before Fuxi's sanctification, and his successor, Shennong, began his own journey of preaching.
A child was born to the Lieshan clan. Strange to say, when he was born, nine wells naturally appeared around the cave, and the water in these nine wells was connected to each other, and if you took the water from one of them, the other eight would fluctuate.
This child was born out of phase, his body was transparent, his internal organs were clearly visible, he had two horns on his head, and he had a bull head and a human body. The people who saw it said that this was the god of heaven descending to earth, and the nine-eyed well was brought by him. So when he grew up, everyone elected him as the leader of the tribe, because they lived in the hot south, and everyone called themselves the Yan tribe and called him Emperor Yan.
Once Emperor Yan saw a red bird holding a string of elephant seeds and things, and saw Emperor Yan's bird spit it out, Emperor Yan picked it up, and the bird flew around him three times, and then chirped and flew away.
Emperor Yan thought that this was a food seed sent by the Red Bird sent by the Emperor of Heaven, so he buried the seed in the soil of the Shennong clan. He also made plows out of wood, taught people to loosen the soil, and dug wells to irrigate the seedlings. In the autumn of this year, a large field of grass seedlings matured.
How happy the people are! Everyone is grateful for Emperor Yan's merits and calls Emperor Yan Shennong. In this way, the surrounding tribes also called the Yandi tribe the Shennong tribe, and called him the Shennong clan, that is, the leader of the agricultural tribe.
Shennong got Fuxi's guidance and became more and more excited, when the world, grains and weeds grew together, medicine and flowers bloomed together, which grains can be eaten, which herbs can cure diseases, no one can tell.
The people of Li live by hunting, and the weak birds in the sky are getting fewer and fewer, and the weak animals in the ground are getting thinner and thinner, and the people have to go hungry. Whoever wants to have sores and diseases, there is no medical treatment and no medicine, but it is impossible to solve the problem fundamentally by relying on immortal arts, and the suffering of the common people, Shennong's eyes are in his eyes, and he is in his heart. How to feed the people, how to heal the people?
Shennong pondered 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 to the northwest mountains. They walked and walked and walked, and their legs were swollen and blood blistered, 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 brandished his weapons with his subjects and attacked 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 weapons, and later turned into markings on their skin. The subjects saw that this place was too sinister and persuaded Shennong to go back. Shennong shook his head and said, "We can't go back! How can we go back if the people of Li are hungry and have no food or medical treatment when they are sick!"
Shennong said and led into the canyon and came 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 it is covered with moss, and it is even more difficult to go up than to climb to the sky! It seems that it is impossible to go up without a ladder to the sky. The subjects persuaded Shennong to forget it again, and it was better to go back as soon as possible. Shennong shook his head again and said firmly: "You can't go back! The people of Li are hungry and have no food, and there is no way to cure them when they are sick, how can we go back!"
Shennong stood on a small stone mountain, facing the high mountain, looking up, looking down, looking left, looking right, making up his mind and thinking of a way. Later, people called the small mountain where he stood "Wangnong Pavilion".
Shennong suddenly saw several spirit monkeys, crawling along the ancient vines hanging high and the rotten trees that fell on the cliffside. Shennong had an idea. Pregnant!
Shennong then 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 and frozen, 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 and climbed the wooden frame and went to the top of the mountain.
Ah, the mountains are really a world of flowers and plants, red, green, white, yellow, all kinds of colors. Rao is Shennong was also very happy, he told his subjects to guard against wolves, insects, tigers and leopards, he personally picked flowers and plants, 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, but he recorded in detail his knowledge of the herbs by the light of the fire: "Which herbs are bitter, which are hot, which are cold, which can satisfy hunger, and which can heal the sick, are all clearly written." ”
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 sit up, he understood that he was poisoned, but he couldn't speak, at this time, Xiaoxia Daochang happened to press the desolate land with the girl, and then accidentally came to Shennong to take a piece of grass for Shennong to eat, and then Shennong miraculously got better. Xiao Xia floated away with the girl, and the subjects thought that this grass was given by the gods, and the grass was named "fairy grass." ”
The subjects were worried that Shennong's taste of grass like this would be too dangerous, and they all advised him to give up. Shennong shook his head and said, "I can't go back! The people of Li are hungry and have no food, and there is no cure for their illness, how can we go back!"
And then he began to taste the herbs. 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.
Shennong 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 was the later five grains. He tasted 365 kinds of herbs and wrote "Shennong's Materia Medica", asking his subjects to bring them back to cure the diseases of the people of the world.
Xiao Xia left and returned to the scalper tribe, at this time Xiao Xia has shown her old state, and the girl is no longer young.