Chapter 27 The Joy of Reading Mr. Xiu Youling

Mr. You Xiuling's articles are very interesting to read, but it is very interesting to read one article. Compared with the elders of Peking University, Mr. You, a professor of Zhejiang Agricultural University, is less famous and knowledgeable. Probably a cut above.Mr. You Xiuling has recently been specializing in pointing out falsehoods. He read an article introduced by him earlier. A peanut fossil was unearthed in a place, and he wrote a thesis. It caused a sensation. The history of peanut cultivation in this place is 10,000 years. Possibly, not enough circumstantial evidence.After further measurement, it is known that it is a modern ceramic peanut, which is a big joke.

Today I read another article by Mr. You, "The "Archaeology" and "Argumentation" of Tea Culture as You Want", which is about the newly published book "The Station of the Soul of Tea" by Hangzhou Publishing House. In the preface, it says: "Hangzhou has a very long history The history of tea culture. It has been passed down from generation to generation and has a long history. According to some tea researchers, people in Kuahuqiao had the habit of drinking tea as early as 8,000 years ago." And a fragment of a pottery pot as evidence, saying that the seeds are tea seeds, and the pottery fragments are teapots. This unidentified thing has already been proved. Mr. You said that it is wrong to do so. Mr. You also pointed out: West Lake was about Thousands of years ago, it was still a bay, which experienced continuous tidal and terrestrialization. The modern West Lake was formed about 1860-1850 years ago, that is, during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD) ("Northern and Southern Dynasties" edited by Zhou Feng Former Ancient Hangzhou", pp. 233-237, 1997, Zhejiang People's Publishing House).The predecessor of Hangzhou was Qiantang County in the Eastern Han Dynasty.At that time, Qiantang County was located in the west of the current West Lake, Yuefen in the north, and Lingyin in the west. It was surrounded by mountains on three sides and a lake on one side. There were beaches outside the lake. It was just a small county in the mountains.Hangzhou broke away from the status of a small county in the mountains. It began in the ninth year of Emperor Kaihuang (589), when Qiantang County was changed to Hangzhou, and Yuhang was moved to Yuhang. In the next 20 years, Emperor Yangdi of Sui Dynasty opened the Jiangnan Canal, with Hangzhou as the starting point of the Grand Canal. The status gradually became more prominent.

It goes without saying that Kuahuqiao people had the habit of drinking tea eight thousand years ago. Eight thousand years ago there was the sea.Mr. You pointed out that there are more absurdities in the "Tea" article, regardless.Mr. You also questioned the "fishing in the garden" in "History of Ancient Zoology in China" (Guo Yu, [English] Needham, Cheng Qingtai), that is, "the garden" cannot be simply interpreted as a pond, and the garden still retains the original meaning. The ancient meaning refers to the luxuriant marshes, that is, the land of shallow swamps. It is wrong to regard "fishing in the garden" as the Yin and Shang ponds for fish farming. However, Mr. You does not deny that fish were artificially raised in the Shang Dynasty, because he did not Evidence proves that there was no artificial fish farming at that time, but the emphasis on "fishing in the garden" is not enough to support the argument that Yin Shang had already raised fish artificially.

It seems that nothing can trouble Mr. You. It is amazing. Mr. You Xiuling was born on May 9, 1920 in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the Agricultural College of the former National Yingshi University in July 1943.Mr. You Xiuling has the passion of an "angry youth", and no matter who is wrong, he has the level of a master. He is especially proficient in ancient Chinese, and anyone who plays with words in his thesis will be exposed by him.If a doctor in the field of agriculture feels that life is difficult today, it may be because of You Xiuling.Last time I went to Hangzhou, I asked if anyone knew Zhejiang Agricultural University well. Unfortunately, it seems that Hangzhou people don’t know much about You Xiuling. This may be because everyone is not familiar with agronomy.