There are many strange legends and legends in the mangy forest sea in the northeast, what ginseng dolls, yellow skins, etc., so what is the reason for this thousand-year-old person to participate in the "run"? The former diggers in the northeast are also called fangshan. When digging ginseng in the mountains, a red thread will always be tied to the ginseng, otherwise people will only have a layer of skin left when they participate in the meeting and run, and lose their value. At the same time, there are also legends that wild ginseng is a spiritual ginseng doll, and only the red line can fix it.
In fact, this is just a legend. It is mainly a tradition derived from the reverence for the mountains in the northeast before for activities such as collecting medicines and digging ginseng. Of course, there are also some practical meanings. #媒体人周刊 #
I remember when I was a child, I once asked my father: "Why does ginseng run?"?
Father's answer was affirmative:
"All have become fine, and they will naturally run when they encounter danger"!
But I thought he was fooling around, so I asked:
"Then why can anyone still dig it"!
The father said solemnly: "Seven two is a ginseng, eight two is a treasure, nine two is a demon, and those who are less than nine or two can only be tied up and captured"!
I pondered for half a year to understand that only "millennium ginseng" can grow to nine or two, will become refined, will run,
After another half a year, I saw ginseng dolls from a little book, and I learned that this guy was the kind of "nine two demons" that my father said, but I was very confused at the time, the books and the New Year paintings posted on the New Year were called "ginseng dolls", and later I learned that at that time, feudal superstitions were being broken... Ginseng dolls are symbolic of festivity.
Wild ginseng is a valuable Chinese medicinal material, since ancient times, it is not at all ordinary people can use it, only those who are high-ranking officials and nobles can enjoy it, even the remaining mountain ginseng whiskers are more expensive. Such an expensive thing is unattainable, and at that time, the general superstition was that wild ginseng was a ginseng doll, which is why some ginseng dolls would run? The red line is to fix the ginseng doll, otherwise if you really run, there will be no gain.
Secondly, wild ginseng is relatively rare, some large and some small. Moreover, there is no fixed goal in looking for ginseng in the mountains, all by fate. What if you encounter a small ginseng that can't be sold at a price, and you are afraid of being found out by others and dug up? Tie a red line, make a mark, meaning that someone found it first. So as not to be poached by others, people at that time were still more disciplined.
First of all, the millennium ginseng itself is a legend, and there is actually no ginseng that can grow for a thousand years. There are two reasons why there are people participating in the legend of running.
First, generally on the mountain to dig ginseng must go to the depths of the mountain, because most of the diggers are more afraid of nature, such an environment is easier to get lost, so the first time to see the ginseng site and the second time to see easy to be considered not the same location, so will think that ginseng ran.
Second, ginseng in the age of the mountain people do not want to dig, you have to make a mark, tie it a red rope, a few years later to dig, in these years, due to various reasons, people participate in the meeting of the change, that is, most of the ginseng body rot, only a whisker end of the root is also the side root, will gradually evolve into the main ginseng, but the ginseng is still connected to it, but the relative position has changed, so mistakenly think that ginseng ran.
In fact, ginseng mostly undergoes mutation in about twenty-five years of growth.
Ginseng is a dicotyledonous plant Pentagram ginseng genus of an herbaceous plant, usually 3 years to flower, 5 to 7 years to bear fruit, it is worth noting that ginseng has very high requirements for the environment, because its leaves do not have stomata and fence tissue, can not effectively lock water, and the leaves will be burned by high temperature sunlight, so ginseng favorite is scattered light, that is, the understory transmittance is about 10% to 15%.
Coupled with the slow photosynthesis of ginseng, which leads to the growth of ginseng is very slow, in the wild environment, ginseng to grow a compound leaf, often takes several years, if the soil fertility declines, or encounter other organisms nibbling, it will also enter the dormant period, in short, is "slow growth", even in the artificial planting environment, ginseng only add a compound leaf a year.
Due to the harsh requirements for temperature, sunlight and moisture, ginseng is usually distributed in mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests or deciduous broad-leaved forests between 33 degrees and 48 degrees north latitude and hundreds of meters above sea level, such as the dense forests of the three northeastern provinces of the mainland.
In the ripening stage, ginseng is generally more than half a meter tall, and in addition to the well-known roots that can be used in medicine, its flowers, leaves, and fruits can also be processed into various products.
The Shennong Materia Medica records the original text:
Ginseng, one human title, one ghost cover. Sweet taste, slightly cold. Non-toxic, the Lord [tonify the five internal organs, calm the spirit, fix the soul, stop the panic, remove evil qi, blind, happy and intellectual. Long service light body, prolonged life】
Mountain ginseng is divided into grades, not regular grades, but according to the experience of ginseng seekers, there are several branches called several pins of ginseng. The branches here are not leaves, the branches must come from the main stem, and each branch generally has five leaves on it. The newly grown ginseng is particularly small, probably three or four leaves. The stems of ginseng are particularly fragile and easy to break.
Because the older the ginseng, the higher the medicinal value, the older the ginseng, the more valuable it is! In the past, people would tie red ropes to ginseng to prevent them from being dug up by people who found them later. In this practice, people will also say that tying a red rope ginseng will not run. In fact, it is not that ginseng will not run, but it will not be dug up.
Therefore, the statement that people participate in the meeting and run is also derived from this.
