How people used chestnuts in ancient times (traditional culture about chestnuts)

Chestnuts are known as the king of thousands of fruits in China and health food abroad. Through the archaeological discovery of the Half-slope site, China has been utilizing chestnuts for more than 6000 years. People cultivate and utilize chestnut for a long period of time, which indicates that chestnut has a high value of utilization. Through the research of scholars in various fields, chestnut has a high food value and medicinal value, and chestnut tree is also the best wood.

People use the chestnut, initially because the chestnut has a high food value, in the mountainous areas where the chestnut is grown, people can use the chestnut as food. According to today's research, chestnut starch content of 56% -72%, protein content of 5.7% -10.7%, fat content of 2% -7.4%, and contains more vitamins. Chestnut protein content is even higher than rice, worthy of the title of woody food. It is said that the Empress Dowager Cixi ate enough greasy, with chestnut noodles to make a small nest to broaden the stomach.

In ancient times, chestnuts are important food, and there are many records in this regard. Lu Shi Chun Qiu" records, column Li Shu served Ju Ao Gong, that he was not known, so he left Ao Gong to live on the beach, summer is eating diamond gravy, winter is eating oak chestnuts. In Han Fei Zi, there are jujube and chestnut enough to survive the people, meaning that in the year of famine, eating chestnut can survive the famine. Moreover, it has been mentioned that in ancient times, chestnuts were used as military food records.

Chestnuts have a high medicinal value, which has been proved by a number of ancient and modern medical scientists. People even think that the chestnut tonic function can be compared with ginseng, astragalus, angelica. Chestnut tree can be said to be a treasure, all parts can be human medicine, and have different therapeutic effects. Chinese medicine, chestnut flavor salty, warm, non-toxic. Chestnut fruit in medicine is known as . Fruit of the kidney.

Ming Dynasty physician Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", citing Tao Hongjing's "Famous Doctors", said: the main treatment of beneficial qi, thick stomach and intestines. It can replenish kidney qi and make people resistant to hunger. Often eat raw chestnut can cure waist and leg weakness, the Tang Dynasty King of medicine Sun Simiao said: raw food, the treatment of waist and feet. Song dynasty Su Song also said that chestnut treatment of waist and feet, should be eaten raw.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: a ball of three, of which the flat chestnut wedge (sound x on) also. Chestnut wedge for the treatment of musculoskeletal wind pain, for the blood stasis is particularly effective; chestnut (sound fd), chestnut thin skin, also has the effect of wrinkles; chestnut shells, can be treated for blood leakage; hairy ball (chestnut outside the prickly packet is also), boiled juice, wash the flammable dengtan poisonous swellings; chestnut flower, the main treatment for dysentery; chestnut bark, boiled juice can be treated for sores; chestnut root, partial kidney gas, you can decoction of the wine service.

Throughout the ages, people pay more attention to the edible and medicinal value of the chestnut. However, the chestnut tree for tall, straight, solid wood, impact resistance, corrosion resistance, moisture resistance, is also ideal for building materials and furniture materials. Ancient people have a very long history of utilizing chestnut wood. As early as in the Spring and Autumn period, "ram's biography ? Wengong two years" in the Lord Yu with mulberry, practicing with the Lord with chestnut, with chestnut hiding the Lord also mentioned the use of chestnut to do the god; "Zuozhuan" in the 11th year of Duke Xuan "in the killing of the chestnut wood. Xuan Gong eleven years" in the kill Xia levy Shu, Regulus chestnut door, indicating that the ancients to chestnut wood to make the car crack with the wooden door. The ancient and modern book integration" cited "cloud fairy miscellany" mentioned: where the door to the chestnut wood for the shutter, can be far from theft. Now, people through the chestnut wood properties analysis shows that the chestnut wood properties have many special advantages: wood density value is large, radial variability is small, the wood material is excellent; with the increase in age, the density of wood is a tendency to reduce; with the increase in the width of the annual cycle, the annual cycle of the density increases accordingly. [30 Peng Shih Award (2012) mentioned that chestnut tree is a high quality timber with hard material, straight grain, resistance to moisture and decay, and can be used to make mill cores, wheel axles, bridges, and various kinds of furniture. [4] Therefore, if as a precious timber forest species directed cultivation, can greatly accelerate the growth rate, while the material will not be reduced; according to the characteristics of the relationship between the amount of wood growth and the amount of fruiting, taking into account the coordinated development of the amount of wood growth and the amount of fruiting, you can develop chestnut fruit and timber forest.