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.