Jiaqing Nian Zhuangyuan Wu Qilin, Dao Guangnian wrote the "Botanical Names and Facts Tu Kao Long Compilation" and "Plant Names and Facts Tu Kao", which are rare in history. Scientist of the "Feudal Governor".
Zhonghua Bookstore Edition "Botanical Names and Real Tu Kao"
Gushi Wu family shuxiang mendi, famous family. Wu Qilian's maternal grandfather, father and brother are all jinshi, five years old, sensitive and studious, reading few books, and famous. A guest who watches the strange flowers and plants in the courtyard one day, pointing to the potted cactus, asks him, "The grass and trees in the world bloom at the right time, why is this unique thing?" Wu Qilin, who boasted that he had read the Four Books and Five Classics, could not answer with a red face.
"Shame on not knowing anything", this embarrassment, so that Wu Qili began to pay attention to plants.
In the twenty-second year of Jiaqing (1817), the 28-year-old Wu Qilian temple tried to win the championship. In 1820, Wu Qilin took the guangdong township examination examiner to purchase thousands of citrus seedlings by the way, and planted them in his hometown south of the canal, resulting in the creation of citrus trees "mud sealing and heat preservation method" that has been used to this day.
In 1821, Wu Qilian's father died, returned to his hometown "Ding You", landed a garden, and created a scientific research botanical garden.
Eight hundred peaches were planted on the embankment, and 3,000 willow trees were planted outside the embankment
Also planted strange flowers and vegetables Half Tibetan agricultural tools and half tibetan books,
Because his brother Wu Qiyan's mother Xu Shi also died of illness, Ding You not only personally planted trees and grasses during the eight years, but also painted and wrote about the plants of Henan and Dabie Mountain, immersed himself in plant research, and began to compile the "Botanical Names and Facts TuChang Compilation" and "Plant Names and Facts Tu Kao". The 22-volume "Botanical Names and Facts" includes 788 species of plants, which are divided into 11 categories, such as cereals, vegetables, mountain grasses, grasses, vines, herbs, herbs, aquatic plants, stone grasses, poisonous grasses, fruits, and woods. Each plant is listed in a bar with attribution.
In the twelfth year of Daoguang (1832), Wu Qilian, who ended Ding's worries, became the governor of Hubei and began the "eunuch half the world", traveling to 19 provinces. Although he was a "feudal official", he spent all his spare time studying plants.
"Botanical Names and Facts" includes 1714 species of plants, with 1805 pictures, divided into 12 categories: grain, vegetable, mountain grass, kui grass, stone grass, water grass, vine grass, yerba buena, poisonous grass, qunfang, fruit and wood. There are more than 500 species of plants included in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", which is the culmination of Chinese botany. "Botanical Names and Real Pictures" are all graphic and textual comparisons, one thing and one picture.
Wu Qilin said that the night walk heard the sound of someone tearing silk fabrics in the field, and stood at the edge of the field in surprise and listened for a long time, figuring out that it was actually the sound of the growth of "Shu Huang". This plant, which has been dry for a period of time, can grow a foot tall overnight once it encounters abundant rain. When this young people were young, they often heard and saw it at the edge of the sorghum field. The sound of sorghum jointing can be heard on the side of the sorghum field on a quiet summer night.
Of course, he did not forget to study the cactus that embarrassed him in his early years, "The Eastern View Case Map is a flat grass, which is now a cactus." "The leaves are in clusters, new green deep teeth, embellished on the palm of the hand... This grass is in the forbidden, suddenly blooming, color like hibiscus, the great moon season, forbidden are called cactus on the jade hibiscus. He also moved out "The Daoguang Emperor came out of this grass to show his subjects" and "to make up for what the "Qunfang Genealogy" did not prepare." (See "Botanical Names and Facts" volume 15 kui grasses.)
---- excerpt from the humble work "The Little Thing about the Examination"92