What exactly is Tai Sui?

Taisui —name of a hypothetical planet which travels opposite to Jupiter. Ancient Chinese people took its period of revolution as reference to number years.

Tai sui, also known as meat ganoderma lucidum. Ganoderma lucidum is recorded in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, which is classified as "Ganoderma lucidum" in the department of "vegetables". It can be eaten and used medicinally, and is regarded as "the best of this classic", which has the effects of "long-term consumption, strengthening the body and prolonging life".

According to Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, "Ganoderma lucidum is non-toxic, which can replenish essence, increase wisdom, cure the knot in the chest and strengthen the body for a long time."

Shan Hai Jing called it "seeing meat", "gathering meat", "letting the old age go" and "sealing the year", which was a health food for ancient emperors. Tai sui is very rare and is the top grade of various drugs. It is recorded in ancient books that Tai Sui is flat, bitter and non-toxic, and has the value of invigorating spleen, moistening lung, tonifying kidney and benefiting liver.

Modern scientists believe that Tai Sui is a large myxomycete complex, but how its cell structure is formed, why it converges into such a regular shape, and its medical value is still a mystery.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Rouzhi is like meat. Attached to a big stone, it has a head and a tail, and it is a creature. Red is like coral, white is like fat, black is like paint, green is like jade feathers, and yellow is like purple and gold, all as bright as ice. " Ge Hong, a Taoist priest in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, recorded in "Bao Puzi": "Zhu Zhi mashed powder, or poured it, which made people intellectually fit and immortal." It is considered by the ancients to be an elixir of life.

In the vicissitudes of billions of years, many species have been annihilated and extinct, but Tai Sui can reproduce so far, which shows its strong vitality. It grows in an anaerobic environment 20- 100 meters underground, lives in soil and depends on water, so it will not rot or deteriorate in water.

At the same time, this myxomycete mainly depends on spores and hyphae, which is very active and can be cut and regenerated at will. However, it is by no means the endless growth of everyone's legend. If it can grow rapidly, it will not be rare.