The two most famous immortal fruits in the Journey to the West are the peach of the Queen Mother Niangniang, and the other is the ginseng fruit of zhenyuan daxian.
The way to eat fruit is generally to eat directly. At that time, Sun Wukong took charge of the peach orchard, and stealing the peach was like this:
"I saw that the monkey king took off his crown and climbed up the big tree, picked the big ripe peach, picked many of them, and used them freely on the branches."
Since the peach is eaten like this, the ginseng fruit should also be eaten like this, and it is also played in the TV series, Qingfeng Mingyue eats it this way, and Sun Wukong and Sha Monk also eat it like this.
Because the ginseng fruit in Journey to the West is made by an artist carved from a cold potato and painted with pigments, like a child, and it is still very large. Coupled with the sweet and crisp sweetness of the cold potatoes, they are all nibbled with both hands.
In fact, the ginseng fruit should not be eaten like this, because he is a dan medicine, his big name is cao huan dan, ginseng fruit is just a nickname.
The name Cao HuanDan is recognized by many parties, and the original text says so:
"The name of the grass is also Dan, and the famous ginseng fruit."
Sun Wukong said that what he had heard of was also Cao Huan Dan, Fu Lu Shou San Xian called him "Wanshou Cao Huan Dan", and Donghua Emperor Jun also said that it was Cao Huan Dan.
In the Journey to the West, the alchemy expert Taishang Laojun, refines several kinds of Dan, nine turns of the Great Dan, nine turns of Tai Yi Dan and so on, it seems that the grass is also a kind of Dan medicine.
Huan Dan is a kind of Dan medicine, since it is a medicine, it has been swallowed or sent since ancient times, and it will certainly not be eaten.
In fact, the way to eat ginseng fruit is similar, as the guardian deity of ginseng fruit, the land of Wuzhuangguan, his words should be the most authoritative, at that time he said to Sun Wukong:
"To eat him, you must use a magnetic device, and clean the water to open it and eat it."
It turns out that ginseng fruit is very special, falling in the face of gold, drying in the face of wood, melting in the face of water, scorching in the face of fire, and entering the soil, which can only be taken with water, otherwise it cannot be eaten in the mouth.
There are really two pieces of evidence in the original text. Once, when the park was opened, "the public ate two." Another time was a special ginseng fruit party was held to entertain Guanyin Bodhisattva, and "the immortals ate one of them."
If it is not dissolved, how to divide? You must know that Zhen Yuan Daxian has forty-eight apprentices, is it a small piece of one person? And how to ensure that it can be evenly divided? If everything is opened, is there any effect on the drug?
And with water dissolving, there is no such problem, one person uses a small bowl of water, a large basin of water when eating, and then a bowl for one person, which is simple and fair.
Moreover, it is also elegant to eat in this way, turning into water and putting it into a wine glass to taste it carefully, and it does not waste his miraculous effect of enabling people to live for 47,000 years.
Especially Guanyin Bodhisattva, as a goddess who can only look up from above, if she and Sun Wukong hold a ginseng fruit to nibble there, it would not be too annoying.
As a kind of elixir, the ginseng fruit should also be very small, not as large as in the TV series, put in a wine glass with hydration to take, that is what the elixir should look like.
Unexpectedly, for more than thirty years, we have been misled. It turns out that the ginseng fruit should not be held and nibbled, but should be put into the water and eaten, just like tasting the jade liquid jelly.