Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) story (30) -- ginseng 
 
 
ginseng 

    According to legend, long time ago in the mountains green water show, the scenic southeast of shandong yimeng mountain area of mengshan, grow a lot of ginseng. Two of them live for thousands of years have spiritual, became a ginseng doll, night often play games in the mountains. Sunny day in the moon light, they had been seen in the mountain figure -- a man and a woman, whisked, chubby, cruise on waist around the dazzling red, leap to jump, very cute.
 
    One day, the distance to a "dirty" to the monks alms, they want to arrest ginseng doll, so he rode on a donkey, with the cool breeze and bright moon on two young monk came to mengshan, built a small temple, named Ming yamadera. After he came to no mood to chant buddhist scripture, sleeping during the day, night mess around in the mountains around looking for. The two young monk cutting wood, cooking for him during the day, cut the grass and feed the donkey, thrash rice late into the night, at night to eat leftovers, wear rags, also often beaten by scold.
 
    One evening, "dirty" monk away to find again, cool breeze and bright moon is thrash rice, see a man and a woman standing outside, and two round red Bai Pan doll, and they said timidly: "both of us to help you thrash rice?" Cool breeze and bright moon is sorrow mixture is not over, as agreed, they finished the rice mixture is four people for a while. Since then, every time go out of the night, "dirty" monk work, with the help of two dolls is then a play, talking and laughing, very happy.
 
    One day night, "dirty" monk came back very early, and found the ginseng doll in the house to play, gently pushed open the door, arch one's back to catch, but ginseng doll disappeared immediately. "Dirty" monk eyes thieves like, a few turns on the cool breeze and bright moon said: "I'll give you two each a a lock with a red line of the needle, such as the baby will come back again, secretly the needle don't their cruise on red, loosen the line, when the time comes, you both can often play with them." The cool breeze and bright moon, happy about. Again in the evening, two fat doll came, they had a baby to play for a while, according to the commanded don't needle, loose thread.
 
    Early the next morning, "dirty" monk, along the winding line search to forward, deep in the mountains and trees until the evening to dig ginseng doll. "Dirty" monk secretly happy: "hey hey, I will thoroughly remould oneself site became immortal..."
 
    He slipped into the kitchen, the ginseng doll in the pan, moved to a big rock pressure in the lid. Call to cool breeze and bright moon said: "you two are just the fire, don't open, otherwise will be the two of you life." Say that finish showering.
 
    Cool breeze and bright moon had just lit a fire, suddenly a extraordinary fragrance coming from the pan, is listening to shout: "help us." They looked at each other, muster up courage unroofed stones open the lid a see: "? Is that the two fat doll." When the cool breeze and bright moon know, their desperate held two good friends, let they escaped from the backyard. When he left, the two dolls gratefully to an unknown small ShanGuo each, and told them: "danger, put it in his mouth," the body is gone.
 
    For a while, "dirty" monk came back and found the wind the bright moon freed dolls, took their thorns to draw them. Cool breeze and bright moon hurriedly put small ShanGuo contain to the mouth, feel whole body hair light, only your feet off the ground. They quickly seize tied to the donkey on the osmanthus REINS, didn't think donkey and osmanthus are springing up, go up to heaven, the entrainment of roots on the rocks, dirt falls, just hit on the head of "dirty" monk, he immediately brains might, on the life.
 
    Cool breeze and bright moon rises on the cloud nine, was sent to the longevity hill five heavenly queen zhuang guan town of atoms faeries, and do the guards "ginseng fruit" fairchild; Mess around the donkey in the sky, happened to be zhang guolao hit, received when the mount; The osmanthus tree by chang-e chang e planted to the front of the moon palace. Sunny day of the moon, we still can see the shadow of the moon to the laurel!
 
    From ginseng doll, do not wish to continue to long live in mengshan, with their family, left the yimeng mountain area, moved to large forest in northeast China, settle down there, thrive. 
 
 
 
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