Chinese mythology:Shen Nong s tasting herbs

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Many years after Nu Wa mended the heaven, She Nnong became the leader of the tribe.

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At that time, people didn’t have much to eat, and they relied on stroking grass seeds, picking wild fruits, and hunting birds and animals to sustain their lives. Sometimes they ate something they shouldn’t have eaten, and were poisoned, and in severe cases, they would die of poisoning. People got sick, do not know the right medicine, are hard, through the good, not through the death. Shen Nong Emperor was very worried about this, determined to taste all kinds of herbs, determine the nature of the medicine, for everyone to eliminate disasters and diseases.

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During the day, he led his subjects to the mountains to taste all kinds of herbs, and at night, he told his subjects to build bonfires, and he wrote down in detail by the light of the fire: which herbs are bitter, which are hot, which are cool, which can satisfy hunger, and which can cure diseases, all of which were clearly written. He once encountered seventy kinds of poison in one day, which he miraculously dissolved.
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On this day, he suddenly found a vine-like plant climbing on a tree, with a small yellow flower, the leaf will also be a contraction, he was very strange, so he picked some leaves in his mouth chewing. Who knew that it was a kind of herb with strong poison, called Broken Intestine Grass. Shen Nong died in this way.

shénnóngshìzhōngguóshàngsānhuángzhīmíngleyàonóngbèizūnchēngwéishénnóng ”。

Shen Nong was one of the Three Emperors in ancient China, who invented medicine and agriculture and was honored as “Shen Nong”.

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