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Shennong is one of the legendary ancestors of the
Chinese nation. He’s also known as the Yan Emperor of the Three Emperors and
Five Sovereigns in ancient China. He is believed to have taught people how to
identify different kinds of plants and how to grow crops so as to survive and
bring up children. The beautiful legend of Shennong tasting hundreds of
herbs shows that Shennong discovered Chinese medicine. It is said that in order
to relieve people of afflictions and sufferings, Shennong decided to taste all
plants to find out herbs with medicinal effects and capable of curing
diseases. In the legend, Shennong had a transparent stomach and
things eaten could be clearly seen in the stomach. With this extraordinary
feature, Shennong could tell which plants had medicinal effects or poisonous
elements. After going through all kinds of hardships and difficulties, Shennong
tasted all herbs and ended up losing his life to poisonous herbs. He sacrificed
his own life in order to save all others. To commemorate him, people honored him
as “Medicine Buddha”. For thousands of years, Shennong’s great spirit of
“benefiting and rescuing people” have been highly respected and praised. It was
this very spirit that spurred a lot of great physicians and pharmacologists of
later ages like Bian Que, Li Shizhen and Sun Simiao to make unremitting efforts
to carry on the great tradition of “saving the people and serving the society”
in Chinese medicine, bringing it to a great height of
development.
