Taking The First Tang, Research, And Literature

Fushi, as an important thought of Daoism and an important phenomenon of Chinese ancient culture, had been deeply influenced classical literature. Many intellectual follows fushi, and it also influenced heir spirit and action.Fushi let poets want to write, provided more materials and thought for poems. They were an important part of fairy poems, and promoted the start of Shanshui poems. Collecting herbs let poets go into the mountains. They were intoxicated with the beautiful scenery, and used poems to praise the landscape. Plots of fairy and Daoism novels always developed by Fushi.Intellectual were crazy of "wushi" medicine. It can make people very hot, and make skin keep fine, so it prompted the fashion of cosmetology; lest the skin was hurt by cloths, the lenient clothes were welcomed, that make the Intellectual more handsome; some people feels so hot and keep naked. This medicine is poisonous, it can destroy the nerves system, so many Intellectual in Wei and Jin dynasty had bad temper and odd character. After taking the medicine, you have to eat many times one day, drinking a lot and can't be cry, even at the funeral. All of those actions were regarded as pursuing freedom, developing oneself and break ceremony.Why some medicine were regarded can let people live forever, it must have background. It's meaningful to look for reason and the history. Pine and cypress is edible and can cure some disease, people deified them and made many stories like that someone eat pine or cypress and be a fairy. They showed the actual background of fushi. Peach is fushi medicine lies on the combination of peach tree myth in eastern and big peach in western. They combined in Wangmu novels, and formed "Pan" peach. Jujube in fairy and Daoism novels changed form Chinese jujube to western jujube. Authors exaggerated the western jujube and made them to be fairy fruit.