What are the main contributions of Shennong

What are the main contributions of Shennong: teaching people to plow, inventing Lei?ê, and tasting a hundred herbs.

1. Teaching the people to plow: promoted the development of agricultural production. He ordered the people to collect the seeds, and then sown on the reclaimed fields, and then the people will be according to this method of cultivation of the five grains, Shennong's name a source for this.

2, the invention of Lei?ê: the first wooden Lei?ê, is considered to be the beginning of the invention of agriculture. The use of Lei Plowshares and planting grains, solve the food problem, promote the development of agriculture, for human beings from the primitive nomadic life to the transformation of farming civilization has created the conditions.

3. Tasting all kinds of herbs: personally tried all kinds of herbs. Finally, he tried a kind of poisonous herb (the legend says that it was either the Broken Intestine Grass or the Hundred-Footed Worm), which could not be solved, and eventually sacrificed his life. Shennong had a red divine whip, called the Ochre Whip, which he used to whip all kinds of flowers and plants to reveal their cold and hot properties.

Shennong (an ancient Chinese character) generally refers to Emperor Yan, an honorific title for the leader of the Jiang tribe in ancient China, known as Shennong, who lived in the Neolithic period. Among Shennong's many deeds, the most well-known and familiar is the Lei and Plowshares, planting five grains, which is precisely the reason why Shennong is called "Shennong", and the word "Nong" in the word "Shennong" fully reflects the meaning of the word "Nong". The word "Nong" in the word "Shennong" fully embodies this great creation.

Yandi created a rich and colorful primitive material civilization and spiritual civilization in the Shennong era, and the resulting Yandi culture and Huangdi culture merged into the Yanhuang culture, which is the source of Chinese culture. It is the source of the Chinese culture. The profound and everlasting Yan Huang culture has nurtured generations of Chinese children, inspired generations of Yan Huang descendants to strive for the rise of the Chinese nation, and made remarkable contributions to the social progress of China and the development of human civilization.