Chapter 40 2. Procreation: The Old Ballad

Reproduction is the number one theme of human beings. As the foundation of cultural inheritance in ancient China, it is impossible not to involve this theme.The performance of this theme is not as filthy as some apologists imagined. On the contrary, the beautiful illusion expressed by this theme still makes people lost even after thousands of years. The mountain of Chongwu...has trees, leaves and leaves are white, red and black, but in fact it is like a trifoliate tree, and it is suitable for descendants to eat. ——"Shan Hai Jing Xi Shan Jing" Here it is said that on the mountain of Chongwu, there is a kind of tree in the mountain, with round leaves, white calyx, red flowers with black veins, and fruit similar to citrus aurantium, eating it can make people have many children. Sun.

This kind of fruit does not exist in reality, but what does this passage express? Let’s fill in the blanks of this mind puzzle: When a young person grows up and enters adolescence, he will admire and value his own sexual organs, and he will look forward to the friendliness of the opposite sex. With this immature and innocent desire, they taste the sweet and sour in the mountains The fruit of sex, the result may make him confused, or gain confidence to grow. From this thinking puzzle, we can easily find that this passage is the adolescent education of the ancients.Here, what we see is like a beautiful picture. Through the smell, fragrance and shape of flowers, it shows the perplexity and yearning of adolescents for female reproductive organs.This is the beautiful first love of the primitive society, the forbidden fruit age of the Garden of Eden, and the most beautiful historical journey of human beings.