Based on the knowledge you have learned, talk about why Shennong was revered as a god by later generations.

Shennong is the legendary Emperor Yan. Emperor Yan is the Chinese sun god. It is also said that he is the god of agriculture, teaching people to cultivate. He is also the god of medicine. According to legend, Emperor Yan is also known as "Shen Nong, the God of Medicine".

Wugutai is the place where Shennong tasted all kinds of herbs, taught crops, and sown grain. It is one of the "Seven Terraces and Eight Scenic Spots" in Huaiyang.

Emperor Yan is one of the "three ancestors" of the Chinese nation. Fuxi established his capital in Wanqiu. Later, Shennong also established his capital here, and it was called Chen along with its old name. It means that this was the place where Taihao Fuxi clan established its capital. It is relatively old, so it is called Chen. This is the origin of the ancient name "Chen" in Huaiyang.

The Taihao Fuxi clan pioneered China’s primitive animal husbandry. Who pioneered China’s primitive agriculture? That is Emperor Yan Shennong. Where is it? It's in Huaiyang. The specific location is Wugutai, only 5 kilometers away from the county seat.

According to historical records, the name of Emperor Yan Shennong was Shi Nian. His father is the monarch of the Shaodian tribe, and his mother's name is Andeng. Legend has it that one day when Shennong's mother went to Huayang (today's Huashan, Shaanxi Province) for fun, she sensed the aura of the divine dragon and gave birth to him on the banks of Jiangshui (Qishui, which flows through Jiangshi City). He was born with the head of an ox and the body of a human body. He could speak on the third day, walk on the fifth day, and had all his teeth on the seventh day. When he became an adult, he was almost seven inches tall, tall and majestic, and handsome in appearance. Because he grew up near the Jiang River, he took Jiang as his surname. This means that Emperor Yan Shennong was the first person in China with the surname Jiang.

When he grew up, he led his tribe to gradually develop eastward along the Weishui River and the Yellow River. Due to a conflict with the Yellow Emperor at Banquan (now southeast of Zhuolu, Hebei), he was defeated by the Yellow Emperor and came to In the Central Plains, he first made his capital Chen (now Huaiyang) and later moved to Lu (now Qufu, Shandong). One of his greatest achievements in his life - tasting hundreds of herbs and growing grains was completed here.

"Historical Notes" says: "Huaiyang has many historical sites, including Shennong's Well". In fact, there is still this grain terrace with an area of ??ten acres and an original height of about two feet. Archaeological investigations have confirmed that this is a Neolithic site, and production tools such as stone sickles, stone axes, and stone sickles were found here, which are completely consistent with the legendary Shennong's cultivation of grains.

Why did Shennong think of planting grains? "White Tiger Tongyi" records: "In ancient times, people all ate the meat of animals and poultry. As for Shen Nong, there were many people and there were not enough animals. So Shen Nong used the time of heaven and the benefits of the land to control the grass and teach the people to work, and the gods transformed it. He made people change, so he was called Shen Nong." This shows that the era in which Shennong lived was a critical moment in China's transition from primitive animal husbandry to primitive agriculture. At that time, the population had flourished, and subsistence depended on the hunting of game and plants. However, the number of birds in the sky became less and less, and the beasts on the ground became more and more scarce, and the food obtained was difficult to fill the belly. How can we solve people's food problems? Shennong thought hard and racked his brains.

According to "The Supplementary Records", one day, a bird with a red body, carrying a colorful nine-eared grain in its mouth, flew in the sky. When it passed over the head of Shennong, the nine-eared grain fell on the When Shennong saw it on the ground, he picked it up and buried it in the soil. Later, it grew into a piece. He rubbed the ears of grain in his hands and put them in his mouth. He felt that they tasted delicious. So he taught people to fell trees, cut away weeds, use axes, hoes, grass and other production tools to open up the land and plant millet.

Shennong got inspiration from this: Millet can be planted every year, with an endless supply. If more grass and trees can be selected for human use and planted more, wouldn't everyone's food problem be solved? At that time, grains and weeds grew together, and herbs and flowers bloomed together. No one could tell which ones were edible and which ones were not. Shennong tasted the same, tried the same seeds, and finally selected the bean, wheat, millet, and rice grains, so later generations respected him as the "Grain Master" and the "Farming Emperor".

After Shen Nong taught the people to grow grains, they not only relied on the sky for harvesting, but also taught the people to dig wells to draw water and irrigate the crops. There is a well at each of the four corners of this high platform, and there is a well in the center of the platform where the water will fluctuate.

Since this area has been hit by the Yellow River water many times in history, and a large amount of sediment was deposited after the Yellow River retreated, most of these wells were buried underground. Only one of them has been found now, located 200 steps south of the distribution area. The spring water of this well is clear and sweet. Every day, people from a radius of nearly a hundred miles come here to get the water, which is called sacred water and is said to be directly capable of curing diseases.

To commemorate Shennong’s great achievements in tasting herbs and growing grains, later generations built a temple on this high platform. Legend has it that Shennong was born on the fifth day of the first lunar month, so sacrifices are held from the fifth to the twentieth of the first lunar month every year to pray for a good harvest. Many nobles, scholars and scholars from past dynasties came here to worship. According to the county annals, during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Zhi came here to pay homage and wrote the famous "Ode to Shennong", "Shaodianzhi, fire virtue becomes wood. It is made of grass, and the people sow the grain. It is Yaqin, to smooth the customs."

The statue of Shennong on the Wugutai has leaves on its shoulders, two horns on its head, and holds grains in its hands. The murals on the wall record his main achievements in life. In addition to cultivating wasteland, tasting herbs, sowing grains, and collecting water for irrigation, he also built a market in Japan and China, made pottery, tasted medicine and cured diseases, etc.

With the emergence of agriculture, the fruits of human labor have become surplus. At this time, Shennong set up a market to allow everyone to take the food and things they couldn't finish and use to the market every day at noon to exchange. , thus emerged the original commodity trading in China.

At the same time, he also invented pottery, which solved the problem of human daily utensils-vessels, pottery basins, pottery pots, etc.

Another great achievement of Shennong is the creation of Chinese medicine and medical skills.

"Gangjian Yi Zhilu" records: "When the people were ill and no medicine was known, Emperor Yan began to grow the vegetation, observe its cold, warm, flat, and hot properties, and identify its monarch, ministers, assistants, and envoys. The meaning is that after taking a bite, he encountered seventy poisons, and transformed them into spirits, so he wrote a book to treat people's diseases. This is how medicine began."

It is said that Shen Nong came to Zhaosi in order to cure people's diseases. I thought about it, and finally took a group of subjects and ran around looking for medicine. When the sun rose from the east for the forty-ninth time, they came to a place with ravines, mountains, clouds and mist, and a fragrant fragrance. They were preparing to go up the mountain when a group of wolves, tigers and leopards suddenly emerged from the canyon and surrounded everyone. Shennong immediately asked his subjects to wield the magic whip and beat the beasts. One group was driven away, and another group came in. They fought for seven days and seven nights before all the beasts were driven away. Those tigers, leopards and wild snakes had scars drawn out by the divine whip, which later turned into markings on their skin.

One day, he came to the bottom of a cliff and saw several monkeys crawling along the ancient vines and trees that fell between the cliffs. He immediately had an idea and asked his subjects to cut wooden poles. Cut canes and build a frame against the cliff. One layer was built every day. It took a whole year to build a hundred and sixty layers before reaching the top of the mountain. Legend has it that the footwear racks used by people to build buildings later emerged from here.

When he reached the top of the mountain, he took his subjects to taste all the herbs, which ones were bitter, which ones were sweet, which ones were hot, which ones were cool, and which ones were poisonous. They distinguished them and recorded them, and found that three hundred and sixty Five kinds of herbs can cure more than one hundred kinds of diseases. One day, he tasted more than seventy kinds of poisonous weeds, seventy times in a row.

The Shennong family found the withdrawal medicine to treat the people's illnesses. When they were about to go down the mountain and return to Chendi, they found that the shelf they had built was missing. Later, these wooden poles for scaffolding took root on the ground, sprouted in the rain, and grew into a vast forest. Shennong was in trouble when suddenly a group of white cranes flew from the sky and took him to heaven. Legend has it that Shennong reigned for 140 years and died at the age of 168. In order to commemorate Shennong's achievements in learning to cultivate grass and benefit the world, later generations named this forest sea "Shennongjia".