A Study On The Herb Guide (a Wild Plant Can Be Eaten When Famine Happen) Written By Wang Pan

Herb Guide (written at the beginning of16th Century) is a very popular Relief of Famines book of Ming dynasty. It has important research value at history of botanical science. The book’s author Wang Pan (1470-1530) select60kinds of edible wild plants to studied, using simple language and vivid and interesting song writing.Relief of Famines book occupies a certain position in the botany history in China. The national economy and social stability an excessive emphasis on agriculture, all surtaxes pressure on the broad masses of people, people life extremely difficult, people is very difficult to have surplus grain. Our country region vast, since ancient times is more than a state of natural disasters, if there are any disasters and famines became the biggest threat to survival. Herb Guide has sixty kinds of wild plants, but records, detailed pictures, make research on wild edible plants provide a reference basis. This book has great value of botany. Eating vegetables when famine happen, the most effective method is how to recognize edible wild vegetables, this become a problem need to solve.The book of each plant besides can cure hunger; also have the function of the disease cure. There will be a great plague; people can eat wild vegetables and epidemic prevention treatment. That is kill two birds with one stone. The author may have considered with this, so this book it also provides some reference for the modern disease prevention and control. Herb Guide expression in poetry form the edible plants, on the writing of flora has innovation, vivid and interesting, easy to remember. It has cultural value. Herb Guide is an important plant in the Ming dynasty book, has the research value in the history of science.