Chapter Thirty-Nine of the Eight Banners' "The Book of Dogs"
There are also tigers in the Soviet Union and South Korea. If you die, I will not die. As long as you do not hunt tigers in your own country, I will care whether you are an endangered species or your father's body is important.
Zhang Lang didn't want to continue watching his father suffer. He was less than forty years old and was tortured by illness like a person in his sixties. He didn't even walk. He had to wear cotton pants in the summer. The weather changed a little, so he rolled on the bed in pain.
Perhaps because he was afraid that Zhang Lang was worried, Taoist Master Qingyuan explained again, "It doesn't matter if you can't find the wolf cub. Acupuncture once a day can slowly pull out the cold poison."
"I know, Master, let's have a meal." After dinner was ready, Zhang Lang and Zhang Lang greeted the master for dinner.
The aroma of rice and the aroma of wild boar will make you feel enlarged when you smell it.
There is also a soup made of Feilong. There is no other seasoning. Just add some salt and sprinkle it with wild mountain onions. The taste is fresh.
After dinner, Zhang Lang cleaned the dishes and chopsticks and started to do evening classes.
"Laojun said: The great way is invisible, giving birth to heaven and earth; the great way is ruthless, running the sun and the moon; the great way is nameless, nourishing all things; I don't know its name, and I strongly call it Tao. The Tao: there are clear and turbid, there are movement and stillness; the sky is clear and the earth is turbid, the sky is moving and the earth is still......"
Zhang Lang followed the master to recite the scriptures, and his mood slowly calmed down and immersed in the scriptures.
After the evening class, Master Qingyuan was still continuing to meditate and practice. Zhang Lang quietly walked out of the Sanqing Hall and came to the side room.
Zhang Lang looked at everything in front of him in surprise, and he was really scared.
There are seven or eight bookshelves placed against the wall, densely filled with yellowed ancient books.
Why are there so many books?
How did so many book masters get up the mountain? Why didn’t anyone in the village find out?
Could it be that the master is really a god, and he can bring the book with a wave of his sleeve.
Of course this is a joke. It is definitely not a one-day effort to transport so many books to the mountain.
While gently stroking the bookshelf, Zhang Lang felt a little sorry for his master. How much effort would it take to collect so many ancient books? How much hardship did the 80s suffer for these ancient books?
The master traveled around these years, probably just to collect these rare ancient books.
All ancient books are classified according to miscellaneous classics, history, and sub-collections.
After calming down his mood, Zhang Lang took out a book from the miscellaneous bookshelf. The words were written in official script. Fortunately, Zhang Lang followed his master to recite scriptures since he was a child and recognized official script.
"Damn! This is "Qimin Yaoshu"... is true or false?"
The "Qimin Yaoshu" held by Zhang Lang is a comprehensive agricultural book written by Jia Sijie, an outstanding Chinese agronomist in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and is also one of the earliest monographs in the history of agronomism in the world.
"Qimin Yaoshu" mainly describes agronomy, horticulture, afforestation, sericulture, animal husbandry, veterinary medicine, breeding, brewing, cooking, storage, and methods for curing wasteland.
The key is that the book in Zhang Lang's hand seems to be the original version, not a manuscript or a printed version of later generations.
Zhang Lang carefully held the ancient book in his hand and thought to himself that if he gave this book to Professor Liu, he would be happy to stay in the mountains for the rest of his life.
Zhang Lang thought to look at the bookshelf, ten volumes, a lot of them per volume.
Zhang Lang dared not read such a precious ancient book, so he gently put "Qimin Yaoshu" back on the bookshelf and pulled out another new book.
"Fuck, what's this... there are such books?"
The book in Zhang Lang's hand is an ancient book stitched with kraft paper. This is not the kraft paper used for packaging now, but the kraft paper made of calfskin.
This kraft paper is thin and tough, waterproof and has a long service life.
There are two big characters "Dog Sutra" written on the cover of the book, which is why Zhang Lang exclaimed.
Dogs have been loyal assistants to humans since ancient times. Many classics have described dogs, such as the "Zhou Li" Dogman's sutra: "There are three kinds of dogs, one is a field dog, the other is a barking dog, and the third is a dog. If a field dog, barking dog, observe its good or evil; if a dog eats a dog, observe its fat and thinness."
This is a classification of dogs. Field dogs are also called hunting dogs. Barking dogs are used for door janitoring, while eating dogs refer to carnivorous dogs, which are specially used to slaughter and eat meat.
For example, in the Book of Five Elements, a white dog has a black tail that makes people ride a car for generations; a black dog has a white ear, which makes people rich; a black dog has two feet in front of white, which is suitable for descendants; a white dog has a yellow head, which is a good family; a yellow dog has a white tail that makes people wear clothes for generations; a yellow dog has two feet in front of white, which is beneficial to people. This is actually the benefit of dogs to humans.
Many people studied dogs in ancient times. Dogs could guard the house and help hunt. In nomadic peoples, a good dog is also a symbol of identity.
Before, Zhang Lang had heard his uncle sing the song "Dog Sutra" but he had never heard of anyone writing such a book "Dog Sutra".
I have never heard of the author's name, but I have seen it during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
Zhang Lang believed it a little. The Manchus were originally nomadic peoples. Since the Kangxi and Qianlong eras, the Eight Banners’ children began to be corrupt. Compared with entertainment activities such as walking birds and fighting crickets, walking eagles and dogs is the most fashionable entertainment activity and a means to show their identity.
Zhang Lang opened the book cover and started with listening to the dog songs sung by his uncle.
The world of dogs is prosperous, and raising dogs only brings peace to the family.
If you want to know a good dog in the world, you must distinguish between spring, summer, autumn and winter.
The dog's eye is covered with water, and the nerves are allergic to the ears and listen to the wind.
The wind blows the law and makes people suspicious of gods and ghosts, and the night is blindly buzzing.
It must be the stolen chicken and duck that have a long face, a long mouth, and a hooked nose.
The wrong person is black in his eyes, and everyone is a man who steals the dog.
He has a big brain and long teeth, and his temples are dense and thick, and his mouth is inlaid.
The four legs are thick and straight, and the chest is protruding, and the fight is like a tiger capturing a sheep.
A dog with deep eyes recognizes people the most, and can distinguish between far and near and close relatives.
The dog with sudden eyes is very myopia, and the head of the family comes back to be a thief.
Spring dogs are born smelly, summer dogs often attract stinky flies.
The autumn dog is blind in the dark night, and the winter dog is born the most elf.
A dog with a loose tail bites a chicken and a duck, and its tail is like a reed flower is not neat.
The dog is promiscuous in the family, and he beats it to death with one stick.
A dog with a broken brain has no life source, and the skull is sunken and the groove is facing the sky.
The dog who protects the family has a solid head. The ears are drooping and the top of the head is round.
The slut is strong in nature and has a red tendon when staring at her.
When you see someone, you often roll your eyes, and be careful when you silently dogs.
The dog is so beautiful, with deep eyes and clear water.
Money rolls up to protect the head of the family, open the door and sleep peacefully at home.
Zhang Lang heard this song since he was a child, and his ears were almost out of calluses.
Zhang Lang was a little disappointed and continued to turn back. Starting from the second page, he introduced the characteristics of dogs across the country in detail, including the East Mountain Pig Dog, Qinghai Tibetan Mastiff, Kunming Wolf Dog, Scchuan East Hound, Oroqen Hound, Mountain Guardian, etc.
It’s interesting. The book not only lists the characteristics of each dog breed, but also has different training methods for different dog breeds.
Before I knew it, I turned to the end, "Huh? This is?"
Zhang Lang carefully looked at a dog food recipe written on the last page of "Dog Sutra".
The dog food in the formula is made of flour, animal bones, animal essence and meat with dog spine, epimedium, bone pulp, Codonopsis, etc.
Chapter completed!