There are many legends about ginseng. Ginseng, as one of the rarest medicinal materials, has been used for thousands of years. Legend has it that ginseng is spiritual. In order to avoid human excavation, some people run away after attending the meeting, while others will become children and run away in the forest. Therefore, in order to prevent ginseng from escaping, people who collect ginseng will worship the mountain god and pray for the gift of the mountain god, and tie red ropes and copper coins to ginseng to suppress ginseng, so that they can collect ginseng smoothly and sell it at a good price.
In fact, ginseng will not escape, mainly because ginseng has the characteristics of dormancy. Ginseng trees are divided into stems and leaves on the ground and roots underground. Ginseng injury will stimulate ginseng not to grow stems and leaves on the ground in the second year, thus creating the illusion that ginseng was discovered last year and ran away this year. In fact, ginseng didn't escape, it was always there, just dormant. When its dormancy period is over, the stems and leaves on its surface will grow again, which caused misunderstanding at that time.
In addition, people in ancient China believed in ghosts and gods, so the saying that people ran in meetings was widely circulated.