PoppyLooks like a beautiful flower, which is the core ingredient for the manufacture of drugs, but the chinese have grown it for over 1400 years. It was not intended to harm people, but rather to heal and observe, a reversal that many people do not know, and the timeline behind it is much earlier than most people think。
Six dynasties passed into china
The origin of the opium poppy is the region of western asia, which had already been imported into china and started cultivation in the six-era period. The southern dynasty, in the ace of the fairy, says "the unknowable weeds." "how long do you think it'll be better to be a weed-breaker and an israeli person?" both records show that the chinese have known the poppy flower at the latest, at least six times。
However, from the early days of the six directions to tang dynasty, poppy cultivation was very narrow and far from universal. In the second year of don dynasty, 667 a. D., the eastern roman empire sent a magic potion called "dieoga", the main component of which is opium, which treats dysentery and removes poisoning. At the same time, arab businessmen brought poppy seeds into china, in parts of the country, to experiment with small-scale seeds, which were purely for reward and medicine。
The tang dynasty has set the time for planting
The tang dynasty not only planted opium poppy, but also repeatedly practiced to map out the best planting time. Tang wen-zong-gu qiu quan wrote clearly in the book of trees: "the flowers shall grow on september 9th and on mid-autumn night shall be large and full. "the translation of the great white words into the first nine months of september or the evening of mid-autumn, with the largest flowers and most full seeds, was a practical experience developed by farmers from generation to generation。
The main reason for the cultivation of opium poppy in the tang dynasty is to observe and use drugs, which are completely separate from drugs. In this grass picker, it describes the poppy flower "four leaves, red and white, with light red and dizziness, with a cyst like an arrow, with fine rice". The poet zhutao wrote, "the first time that a horse saw a rice bouquet" after he had slanted the ancient path, that it was on the side of the road to see a poppy flower, and that it was all sad and felt like home。
The song joseon used opium poppy as a soup medicine
The use of opium poppy is well documented in the song dynasty book, which has been viewed in successive medical books as a special medicine for dysentery. According to the song ksong-chul, poppy rice is cold enough to feed, to move bladder gas, to turn opium poppy with water and honey into soup, and to be well suited to a man who is not. Wang qing wrote down the prescription in "one-hundred-one-hundred" and took 30 pills to cure the red diarrhea。
Suzie wrote, "the boy can fry the poppy soup," and his brother said more specifically in the poem, "the poppy larynx, the pulmonary stomach," "the old man can't eat," "the poppy culled in honey water, and drink with the monks. Poppy soup from song dynasty is seen as a daily means of repair for the rich and the buddha, far from drugs。
Ming dynasty is still rare
Surprisingly, the poppy flower was still known as a rare flower until the end of ming dynasty. Over the course of the last few years, the queen of tai man has said it "after the pox, the poppy flower is the most plume, it's planted, and it's hyena." during the year, tsui xia came to guizhou under the white cloud mountain, and was surprised to see a huge red poppy flower, "twigs of a thousand leaves, a very large and dense" and a beautiful drug。
Xu xia's travel by half of china can be an expression of the "observation" of a poppy flower beneath the mountain in guizhou, suggesting that poppy flowers are not very common in remote areas at the time of dawn. From six dynasties to the end of ming dynasty, for over 1400 years, opium poppy. Growing in china has never been widespread, and most people are still new to it and true large-scale cultivation has not yet begun。
Won-joon's doctor warned, but nobody listened
At the time of their arrival, chinese doctors had come to understand the enormous side effects of the opium poppy and recommended that it be used with caution. The famous doctor zhu zheng zhu has made it clear that a man who coughs is using opium poppy shells to stop coughing, and a person whose diarrhea is wet and hot, to stop using it, "it is urgent to stop the disease, kill as a sword, and it is better to keep it safe." he had repeatedly advised the world not to use it, but the warning was largely ignored。
At the time of yuan dynasty, opium had already begun to be consumed, although the opium had not been produced on chinese soil, but had come from wars that had subjugated areas such as india, where it had been popular as a trophy. The chinese themselves knew how to extract and manufacture opium from opium poppy, and it was only in ming dynasty that it became clear that they had relied mainly on overseas imports and that domestic production was extremely low。
The price of opium in ming dynasty was once equal to gold
Lee tsai-jin wrote about the method of producing opium in this draft: when the opium poppy is blubbered, he stabs the skin outside with a big needle after noon, and cuts the skin in three or five places, and next morning scrapes the juice into the china dry. But lee tsai-jin himself admitted it was a hearsay, which he never did. Domestic opium was mainly imported at that time, with thailand contributing 300 pounds at a time。
The amount of opium imported during the years of transformation was small and the price was prohibitively high. By forty-three years, in 1615, the court had officially taxed opium for three quarters of every ten pounds of money. Special taxes can be used to illustrate the apparent rise in imports, as well as the increase in opium consumption among wealthy landowners off the south-east coast, which has radically changed the fate of opium poppy in china。
From six dynasties to ming dynasty to addiction, opium poppy traveled to china for almost 1,500 years to cause great damage. Do you think the opium crisis could have broken out hundreds of years earlier if the tang dynasty were to plant large areas of opium poppy instead of food? You are welcome to share your views in the comment area and to send them to those around you if you find them useful。
