The legend of Yandi Shennong

Shennong was born in the water of ginger, so he took ginger as his surname, called Lie Shan, and ruled the world with fire virtue, so he was called Emperor Yan.

Yandi is the god of agriculture. According to legend, in ancient times, there is no agriculture, people rely on hunting, fishing, picking wild fruits for a living, living a primitive nomadic life, and often starving, and freezing. Yan Di saw people living such a difficult life, his heart is extremely disturbed, he thought about it day and night, and want to help everyone to live a well-fed, secure and stable life. He thought, that if there is a plant that produces fruit and can eat it, it would be good, people can eat this fruit to live, and never starve again.

So he went to great lengths, risked his life, traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, and tasted countless strange fruits, to find the fruit for people can be food. Once, the emperor ate poisonous fruit by mistake and almost died, but the emperor did not discourage, and finally, he found in the south a beautiful mountainous area, his heart can produce a lot of fruit and can eat the grass, which is the grass. After a trial planting, the first year the harvest was full of yellow, crisp, and fragrant fruit, the next year, the harvest of dozens of quintals. After this incident was discovered by the Emperor, people spread the word, and soon spread throughout the north and south, with more and more people planting grain. To alleviate the labor of people farming, Yan Di and teach people advanced farming techniques.

Legend has it that the Emperor had a sacred whip, called the "ochre whip", which he used to beat herbs one by one. The herbs, whether toxic or non-toxic, cold or hot, would show their various properties after being whipped. He then treated patients according to the different properties of the herbs. To further identify the taste and function of drugs to facilitate the rescue of the dead and wounded, Emperor Yan personally tasted all the herbs, to test the medicine. He first tasted licorice, sweet taste and calmness can relieve fire and detoxification; he chewed plum, sour teeth, and astringent lung; engaged pepper and gas open, bite spicy mustard is torn; and so on, the list goes on and on. On average, within a day, poisoning twelve times, but fortunately, his body is exquisite and transparent, from the outside can see the internal organs, so can immediately know the poisoned parts, to find a way to save himself. Yan Di tried after the hundred herbs' medicinal properties, will warm, cold, cold, and hot drugs are separated, according to the meaning of the ruler and minister, written into a medical book prescriptions for the benefit of mankind.

It is said that the discovery of tea, is the Yandi taste hundred herbs and get. Once, the Yandi picked very fresh small green leaves, put them in the mouth and chewed, and then swallowed into the belly, immediately felt the breath, refreshing. This small green leaves in the stomach, up and down, back and forth to cleanse the stomach, the body of all parts of the scrubbed Shu Shu smooth. Because these small green leaves like in the same inspection, run back and forth in the belly, Yan Di will be called "Cha". Later people slowly, in the evolution of the process of writing into "tea", which is the origin of tea.

Emperor Yan gave the sword to cut the evil dragon

In ancient times, the water of the Great Nine Lakes is as clear as a mirror, set between the high mountains, the fairies of the Great Palace often come down to the lake to take a bath, and the Yandian Emperor Shennong also in the lake to wash herbs.

Later, the lake was occupied by several evil dragons, the lake water was churned into mud, fishy smell to the sky. Since then, the fairies no longer dare to come to bathe, the surrounding hundreds of miles of people can not live in peace. At that time there was a young hunter living in the lake, a good hand to catch the tiger's martial arts, but did not cut the dragon.

One day, he secretly watched the dragon melee, some mouth spitting fire, some mouth stretching sword, some flying sand, some spraying water a thousand feet, tearing and biting, no victory, only to stir up the sky and darkness, the sun and the moon no light. The hunter was very indignant, pulled open the recurve bow, and shot nine arrows, but did not hurt the dragon-scale armor.

The hunter returned home wondering, suddenly remembered his grandfather said, cut the dragon to use the dragon sword, and heard that only the Shennong clan has this sword, so went to the wooden city to ask the Shennong clan to give him the sword.

The hunter came to the top of Shennong, could not see any sign of Wood City, fatigued, simply sat down to rest, a while later, they went to sleep, saw an old man with white hair said: "These sinful dragons, are mountain pythons, long refinement to achieve, and compete with each other for nine lakes, this immortal land, they should be chopped up." Said, giving him a sword, silver light shining, cold air.

The hunter woke up found a sword in his hands, the spirit of multiply, rush to the lake in the night, jumped into the lake, and these evil dragons were all killed.