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what is tai sui?
an accidental discovery leads to eternal legends;
a strange meat ball,
caused an uproar;
Some people say it is immortal,
Some people say it was born at the age of seventy,
What is it?
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There is a saying in China, which is called "Putting your head on the ground". The meaning of this sentence is to touch a stone with an egg, which is a metaphor for offending people and things beyond one's ability. We often hear this sentence, but we don't know where it comes from. So, is there a traditional saying? If so, what does it look like? I'm afraid no one has made it clear. But more than 1 years ago, an unknown organism was found in zhouzhi county, Shaanxi Province, and the locals all said that it was born at the age of Tai. So this unknown organism is the legendary Tai Sui?
On August 22, 1992, Wu Fenglian, a farmer from zhouzhi county, Shaanxi Province, and his son Du Zhanmeng went to the Weihe River to salvage the floating firewood washed into the river due to flash floods.
Interview with Wu Fenglian: We don't have firewood fires here. As long as there is water in the river, branches will fall from the mountains, and we will go to the river to get firewood for fire.
at 9 o'clock in the morning, they suddenly saw a big black thing in the rushing river. Du Zhanmeng, his son, jumped into waist-deep water and grabbed it, dragged it to the shore, and put it on the beach to examine and touch it carefully.
interview: Wu Fenglian is probably round, long and flat, and yellow is like the skin of a cow. Just like that, it looks like pebbles in the river. At that time, I regarded it as a piece of meat on the leg of a cow. I dared not move in the mud and water, so I took my foot.
Because the Weihe River often floods, sometimes dead cattle, pigs and other animal carcasses are washed down from the upper reaches. At first, this discovery did not attract the attention of Wu Fenglian and her mother. So they didn't take the unidentified things they found home. But after three or four days, Wu Fenglian changed her mind. It turns out that people in the village often bury the dead animals in the ground as fertilizer. Wu Fenglian thought that the meatball could be brought back and buried in her own field. So I decided to look again. However, I didn't expect the sight there to surprise them.
Interview with Wu Fenglian: Later, after a long time, the water fell and lay on the dry beach for four days. After three days, the dead fish in the inland river had become worms, and there was nothing next to it.
Seeing that it didn't rot or attract mosquitoes in the dog days, Wu Fenglian and her son thought the meatball was a bit strange. So after they brought it back, they didn't bury it in the ground, but washed it and put it in a big iron pot. A week later, something unexpected happened again.
Interview with Wu Fenglian: (A week later), I found that it was big, and some people guessed that it might be long. This is a living thing. In my opinion, the size around it is two inches bigger.
According to Wu Fenglian's memory, when they first moved back, they weighed more than 2 kilograms. After this weighing, they found that they had grown to 35 kilograms. In a few days, it has grown by more than 1 kilograms. It seems that he is a live meat. So what the hell is this? If it is meat, can it be eaten?
Interview with Wu Fenglian: I took a knife and cut it open. When I cut it, I saw that it looked like white meat. I told my children: Why is it like meat? I discussed it with my children, cut a piece and put it on the stove. Cut a piece of meat, weighing two or two, poured a ladle of water, boiled it for more than an hour, and it melted. It looked like a sticky face when it was lifted. The child put some sugar in it, drank it and then told me that it didn't taste. I said that if it didn't taste, there would be no harm, only benefits. If it was bad, people would feel sick. This didn't happen.
According to Wu Fenglian, they were refreshed and full of energy for a few days after eating "meatballs". Moreover, in the dog days when there are a lot of mosquitoes and flies, there is not a single mosquito and fly in the room where this "meat ball" is placed. A few days later, the news that Wu Fenglian's family found the treasure spread all over the local area. Many villagers come to cut meat. One of the villagers cut off a piece weighing 1 grams, but it doubled in a few days. What is even more strange is that the place where this "meat ball" originally cut off a few pieces of meat grew back in a few days. Some people say that this is the legendary Tai Sui, and whoever eats it can prolong life and live forever. So what kind of organism is this meatball? Is it the legendary Tai Sui?
The news of the discovery of unknown organisms in zhouzhi county, Shaanxi Province spread quickly in a short time, and many news media reported a lot. These reports have also attracted the attention of some scientific research institutions and colleges in Xi 'an.
Interview with Yang Xingzhong, a professor of biology at Northwest University: Because the local villagers say that this is Tai Sui, because Tai Sui is a superstitious thing, and then there are many different opinions. The impact is very great. There are many people calling from all walks of life and asking questions. Therefore, in this case, the (Xi 'an) Municipal Science and Technology Commission instructed Northwest University to come up with scientific conclusions as soon as possible.
One day in September p>1992, Yang Xingzhong, a professor of biology at Northwest University, was ordered to go to Wu Fenglian's house for a scientific investigation.
Interview with Yang Xingzhong, a professor of biology at Northwest University: Because the department told me at that time that an animal had been found, but after I went there, according to the characteristics of this animal, it had no head and no body. At that time, it was an oval shape with a thick middle and a thin edge. Such an oval thing had a brown surface and some pure white on its belly. At that time, it felt like fat pork when it was patted with water. So at that time, we were very surprised. We didn't know what this thing was, but according to its appearance and morphological structure, we initially judged that it might be a creature, and it might be a creature. But whether it was a creature or not, so I had to make one at that time, that is to say, I had to take some materials to bring back to our biology department and do some experiments.
Because it was impossible to judge the species and characteristics of this organism at that time, Yang Xingzhong was asking Wu Fenglian's permission.
Interview with Yang Xingzhong, a professor of biology at Northwest University: First of all, whether it is a creature, then we can judge it from the characteristics of its life. If it is a biological thing, it has a cell structure, and then after this cell passes through the cell structure, we can judge whether you are a plant, an animal or something else.
Through cytological identification of this unknown organism, it is found that it has a complete cell structure. This proves that it is indeed an organism. But it grew rapidly in a short time. Is it because of its own growth, or is it soaked in water like a dead creature?
Interview with Yang Xingzhong, a professor of biology at Northwest University: The index of respiration was simply measured in the laboratory. After being measured by the instrument, this thing has respiration, that is, carbon dioxide is produced. By directly measuring carbon dioxide, it is proved that it has a metabolic process and carbon dioxide is produced, which proves that it is alive.
Interview with Dong Zhaolin, a professor of biology at Northwest University: It breeds very quickly. It has no nose, no eyes and nothing. It is just a piece of meat. What about meat? It is dead. After three days, it stinks, but it doesn't stink, so it is considered as a living organism. However, at present, people in the whole biological world don't know what it is and haven't identified it.
Although scientific experiments have proved that this meatball is a living organism, there is no exact statement, and the legend about Tai Sui in society is getting worse and worse.
Interview with Yang Xingzhong, a professor of biology at Northwest University: The word "Tai Sui" has a long history in rural areas, and it has always been said that it is too old, so once this meaty thing is dug up in the soil, the people all think it is too old. When I was young, people said that the old people often told me these things, telling me whose house was built in the past, and when digging the land, they dug a lion's den. Since then, that family has fallen, and there are dead people. What's going on? So this thing is widely circulated among the people in Guanzhong area, so once such a strange thing, like a meat, is not rotting and has no taste, their first impression may be lion's den.
According to some dictionaries in China, Tai Sui is another name for Jupiter in ancient times. Jupiter revolves around the sun every 12 years, and it has a position every year, and there is a Tai Sui underground. According to folklore, when building a house, the door can't face its star position in the sky. Otherwise, the tai sui on the ground will get angry. Over time, there has been a saying that "you can't break ground on your head." According to the folk saying, people are very shy about putting in the traditional age, but why do they associate it with immortality?
In fact, there are records about Tai Sui in China's ancient book Shan Hai Jing thousands of years ago. At < Shan Hai Jing > Middle age is also called "seeing meat", "gathering meat" and "meat cheese". You see, they all have the word meat, which means they can be eaten. According to Shan Hai Jing, "seeing meat" first appeared in front of the ancient mausoleum as an item that ancient emperors liked to eat before their death. It has the characteristics of "eat it up, find it again" and "eat one piece after another", that is to say, it can grow again by itself after eating one piece, which seems to be the same as the "unknown organism" discovered in Zhouzhi, Shaanxi Province, and has the ability to grow by itself. As for the idea of longevity after eating, Li Shizhen, a medical scientist in Ming Dynasty, did record it in Compendium of Materia Medica. In Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen called it the "Zhi" category of the "vegetable" department of Rouzhi, and it is also called "the top grade of this classic" with the Ganoderma lucidum we see now. "Compendium of Materia Medica" also lists several prescriptions based on "Zhi", which shows that they have special curative effects on some difficult diseases, and their common characteristics are: "Eat for a long time, be fit and not get old, and prolong the life of immortals. Moreover, because it has the characteristics of spontaneous growth, it is even more precious. Therefore, emperors of all dynasties have tried their best to find it. Among them, it is said that ancient emperors will look for Ganoderma lucidum, and the most famous story is that Qin Shihuang sent Xu Fu to lead 3, boys and girls to find medicine.
According to Records of the Historian Qin Benji, after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, the emperor, as the king of a country, heard that there was an immortal medicine in the East, which could lead to immortality after being eaten. So in the 28th year of Qin Dynasty, he personally led a trip to the East to find the immortal medicine. He went to Langya Town, Shandong Province, and visited the famous alchemist Xu Fu, who ordered him to find the immortal medicine and gave it to Xu. Chui fook immediately led 5 virgins eastbound, and came to Penglai, Shandong Province to find the fairy medicine. So Chui Fu built ships and headed for Fusang with a rate of 3, boys and girls. He arrived in Yingzhou, the ancient abbot, which is now the Japanese archipelago, and continued to look for the fairy medicine. It is said that among the fairy medicines that Qin Shihuang asked Xu Fu to look for was Ganoderma lucidum. However, more than 2 years have passed, and Xu Fu and his search fleet have disappeared in the long river of history, and the fairy medicine it dreamed of has also turned into a historical legend. However, this unknown organism found in zhouzhi county, Shaanxi, once again linked people with Ganoderma lucidum.
Interview with Mi Jialie, vice president of Shaanxi Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine: The description of the ancient meat ganoderma lucidum is more detailed in the Compendium of Materia Medica. When I went to see it, its shape was just like the description. This yellow one looks like purple, and this one cuts like a piece of meat. That purple looks like that purple and yellow. Moreover, on its outer ring, it seems to proliferate and develop in circles, and a trace left in the process of development is quite clear. The hand touches the top bare, and it feels a little sticky, just like the phenomenon that our kind of salt and pepper protein appears on it, which feels very precious. I didn't dare to touch it with my hand, so I just took a look and felt that it was a.
Mi Jialie's statement comes from the description of Ganoderma lucidum in Compendium of Materia Medica. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Meat cheese is like meat, but it is a creature. White people are like cutting fat, yellow people are like purple and gold, and all bright holes are as hard as ice. " These descriptions seem to be very similar to the characteristics of unknown organisms found in Zhouzhi, Shaanxi. Coupled with its rapid self-growth, we have to wonder whether it is really the legendary meat ganoderma lucidum.
In the following years, this unknown organism was publicly exhibited in various places. Because people have been rumored that this is the traditional meat ganoderma lucidum recorded in ancient books, there are an endless stream of tourists watching it. Even Emperor Akihito of Japan, who has profound attainments in marine biology research, specially visited this "unknown organism" after learning the news of the discovery of this organism, and called it a "rare treasure".
In order to determine whether this unknown organism discovered in Zhouzhi, Shaanxi Province is the legendary Ganoderma lucidum, Yang Xingzhong made an in-depth study on this unknown organism. After nearly a month's intense scientific observation, Yang Xingzhong found that this organism has two swimming cells with flagella structure, and it can be seen that one end of the flagella of the swimming cell does not selectively ingest food particles. According to this feature, Yang Xingzhong determined that the identity of this unknown organism is a slime mold complex that is mediated in the evolution process of primitive fungi to plants and animals.
Although this myxomycete is ubiquitous in other places, it is the first time to find such a large complex, because after we finished the research at that time, a preliminary conclusion of the form was that it was an over-type between protozoa and plants, which in itself explained its uniqueness in evolution in the biological world, so its value was relatively large at that time, which attracted some attention from many scholars. Some concerns of the scientific community, especially after visiting the Emperor of Japan at that time, he was a marine biologist. After his visit, he said that this was a great discovery in the field of biology, and this value was initially affirmed.
According to Yang Xingzhong's conclusion, this unknown organism is a myxomycete complex in the process of life evolution from primitive fungi to plants and animals. What does this conclusion show? You see, this is a plant, this is an animal, this is a fungus, and they all have the same ancestor. They evolved from a primitive flagellated single-celled organism billions of years ago. This creature, called protoplasm, is the primitive state of life. Protoplasts can swim when they live in water. They can live by devouring other creatures like animals or by photosynthesis like plants. The former is called abnormal function, and the latter is called autotrophic function. Later, with the evolution, it differentiated in two aspects: some protozoa strengthened their autotrophic function and degraded their motor function, and evolved into unicellular green algae, which developed into the plant kingdom. On the other hand, the movement function and heterotrophic function of protozoa were strengthened, and the autotrophic function degenerated and evolved into unicellular protozoa, from which it developed into the animal kingdom. This myxobacteria complex, its cell structure and protoplasm