Chapter 33 Look, those who got a thousand knives

When talking about the reasons for the formation of the ancient Chinese autocratic "great unification" country, researchers always stare at the river known as the "Mother of China" in silence: on the map, this huge The blue "ji" shape runs through the brightest area in China.And donate the flood to his people without reservation. Therefore, the ancient Chinese seem to live in hunger and anxiety about hunger forever.They devise inexhaustible creatures to provide themselves with imaginary food.According to Zhang Hua's "Natural History", a magical cow was produced in Guangdong, Guangxi and Vietnam.People can cut beef from it and eat it - as long as they don't kill it, the cut part can grow back after a few days.The comprehensive book "Shen Yi Jing" written by the name of Dongfang Shuo also mentioned this thing, but it only said that it was a large mammal, and did not specify the species.According to another book "Xuanzhongji", this kind of creature is not only produced in the south, but also in the northwest.The people of the Dayuezhi country call this kind of cattle "Japanese Anti" cattle, and they can cut about four catties of beef from it every day.In the era of Emperor Han Yuan, someone once paid tribute to the emperor a "Japanese Fan". People who ate its meat said that the taste of this thing is average, but the meat taste is too bland, which is nothing more than trying to be fresh.

Therefore, some people speculated whether the phrase "Why not eat minced meat" by Emperor Hui of Jin meant that until the Jin Dynasty, this kind of meat livestock was still kept in the court. Regarding this strange food, earlier records come from.There are more than 10 references in the book to a monster called "sight-meat".This monster is a whole piece of blood red from head to toe, just like a piece of beef liver, and there is no difference between head, torso, and limbs.At one end of the liver, there are two tiny black spots, which some people guess are its eyes.It has no mouth, nose and other organs on the body surface, and there are no internal organs in the body. "It looks like a normal piece of meat", which is probably why it got its name.In fact, its ability is roughly the same: as long as the pair of "eyes" are not eaten, any part of its body can be cut off and eaten, and grow again.

The places where the meat grows are all wild and barren places.The author of "Overseas" and "Great Wilderness" describe them, such as Dishan, Pingqiu, Kaiming and so on.It is said that the gods of ancient China hid in these eerie places.Therefore, there are always people who like to make trouble, barefoot, and draped their hair to visit the gods.In the wild mountains, it is difficult for them to get food, and there are often starvation to death.So the gods created the monster "meat-seeing" to provide their fans with some opportunities to "eat minced meat".

Some biological researchers believe that "visual meat" just looks like meat, but it is actually a complex of fungi. In the early 1960s, a large number of this object was unearthed in Henan, Anhui, and Sichuan.Such an explanation seems to be too incomprehensible. 