Epoch of ancient times
In many Chinese antiques have described in Pangu "epoch-making" stories: "world of chaos, such as chickens, Pangu born of them. Eighteen thousand years, the world has opened, Yang Qing for the day, overcast cloud to ground. Pangu in which, day nine changes, God in the day, the holy ground. The light of day ten feet high, ten feet thick to date, Pangu ten feet long day. So eighteen thousand Chitose, high number of days to a few deep, Pangu very long after there is Sovereigns.
Who later appeared to be Chinese people as "Mother Earth" Lu-Wa, also described in the ancient books of how she "Sky" deeds:
"The time to ancient quadrupole waste, Kyushu crack, not days and cover, to ill-load. Fire Jian Yan and immortal, Hao Yang and endless water. Zhuan people eating beast, bird of prey grab the elderly. So Wa Lian colored stone to fill the heavens, broken turtle enough to place four poles, kill the Black Dragon to economic Jizhou, the plot to sexual secretion Lo gray stopper. Heaven fill quadrupole stop, sexual secretion is paused, Jizhou ping, cunning dead insects, Zhuan people's livelihood.
Nonetheless, the ancient people because intelligence is not open, still wild in the harsh natural environment, not only live very hardship, but also suffered many natural disasters and beast invasion, since there is the virtue of God, and therefore the future, "Hao Days of God "has gradually been assigned" Youchaoshi "special envoy" Suiren "," Fu Xi "," Rustic "and so on to the birth of the world, and guide people to learn a variety of skills to fight nature, using natural, and and natural coexistence and common prosperity.
Youchaoshi teach people to construct wood for the nest
When the ancient people no houses, often sleeping in the wilderness or hiding in caves, sometimes because there is no shelter, so often by the wind and rain as well as sun exposure and the like snakes and wild beasts against natural disasters. Later, a clever man came up on the tree structure of wooden nesting method, people can not only avoid the wind and rain, but also can avoid snakes wild beast, and this person is revered by everybody as "the inspiration" and is acclaimed as the leader of the crowd.
Suiren teaching people fire by rubbing sticks and cooked. Also in ancient times, people eat wild fruits, fishing also eat raw fish and mussel. These cold things, hard and fishy, is not digestible, there all kinds of parasites or bacteria, so that people had a variety of disorders, there are many children died very young ages. Later it was accidentally discovered fire function, and invented the fire by rubbing sticks and methods of long-term retention, and use a variety of plants and animals after the torch to eat cooked, not only taste good, easy to digest, but also because sterilization fire, reducing the occurrence of the disease, but can be used for lighting the fire and deter beast. With fire, people's life is played a great change. More progressive civilization, this person has also been honored for "Suiren" and became a leader.
Fuxi teach a man to fish hunting, making gossip
Since the greater Envoy Fuxi appeared and began to teach people to fish netting, manufacturing traps to hunt; they teach people to hunt for meat fish and shellfish cooked in pottery cooking to eat, and eat the moment finish; beast live up to the keeper, to prepare for contingencies. Fuxi and Yang Guan astronomy and look down at the earth, according to various natural phenomena, making the gossip. It is an original design text, with a dry, Kun, shock, Hom, from, Sunda, against, Burgundy and other eight basic symbols to represent, and twenty-two match with a sixty-four kinds of combinations of the images, as divination and memos purposes. This is the Chinese symbol characters starting startups, basically can be regarded as the dawn of Chinese civilization.
Shen Nong tasted a hundred herbs, Christians with farming
Shen Nong's era to the population has more and more. People rely solely on fishing, hunting and gathering previously vowed have enough to eat, and life growing into a serious lack of time. In that very hardship on the case, another from "Haotian God" when the great person ─ Shennong appeared. Rustic found that people throw the seeds in the ground and stone, the second year will naturally take root, grow new fruits. He would take advantage of summer and winter climate change, all kinds of artificially propagated plants, and harvesting in the next year as food, and so the cycle of teaching people to learn how to grow edible plants.
At first, people do not know which plants, fruit, seeds or roots, stems, leaves are edible; which are delicious; what they cannot eat or do not eat or even get sick and toxic fatal. Had their own personal to experiment, a variety of wild plants in an attempt to taste, and the taste of a variety of plants, features one by one down.
It is said that Shennong try Herbs in the process, too much time of the day had met seventy kinds of poisonous plants, there are many times almost took it to life. However, Shen Nong still find a lot of edible plants safe hardship people. And it can be used to find a lot of healing herbs. And after a lot more aggressive to teach people gather these plants, then with the planned artificial cultivation, due to mankind's formal entry into the agricultural age, began life in a fixed place down, no hunting, plenty of food, live in peace, civilization I was able to rapid development .......
About "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic"
According to legend, after Shen Nong tasted a hundred herbs, only to find as many food plants can also find many herbs can cure, and became the first to be recorded in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia ── "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic", which were contained 365 kinds of drugs, including 252 kinds of medicinal plants, 67 kinds of animal drugs, 46 kinds of mineral drugs. Involving about 170 kinds of disorders, the drug is divided into upper, middle and lower, which is the earliest history of Chinese Pharmaceutical drug classification. Most drugs book is the earliest extant Chinese pharmacology books, as they gather in use today, its efficacy has been proven to be long-term clinical practice and modern scientific research institute. Drugs and medication principle theory presented in the book are mostly correct and have high scientific value. The book is a pharmaceutical theory of ancient China laid the foundation for the later development of pharmaceutical science had a profound impact, are still learning important reference book of Chinese medicine.
