In the novel The Journey to the West's thirty-sixth chapter, "Apes are everywhere, splitting the door and looking at the moon", a poem by Tang Priest expresses his feelings. Its poem says:

Liu Wang hasn't left the city since the Education Mountaineering Alliance was founded.

I met a cracked belly on the way and urged Aristolochia on the way.

Looking for slopes and turning streams into Schizonepeta tenuifolia, climbing mountains and worshipping Poria cocos.

China is a country that is good at poetry and songs. It is self-evident that the ancient poetry is exquisite, and many poets are good at writing Chinese herbal medicine nouns into poems, which is intriguing.

Pi Rixiu and Lu Guimeng, famous poets in the Tang Dynasty, traveled in the spring and saw fresh and beautiful natural scenery in the wild. Pi Rixiu immediately recited a seven-sentence poem: "There are several streams running in the bamboo, and the leaves and boats can be connected. Grass fragrant stone is not far from cold, aiming at the rooftop. " After singing, he said to Lu Guimeng: "Although my poem is not good, it implies the names of three Chinese medicines. Can you guess, brother? "

Hearing this, Lu Guimeng couldn't help laughing: "Don't be too modest. The poem is well written, but the name of the medicine is not difficult to guess. It's bamboo leaves, medulla tetrapanacis and polygala tenuifolia. Not good? " After a moment of meditation, I read: "laurel leaves are like velvet with purple dew, and kudzu flowers are like ribbons dipped in Huang Liu. Lianyun is getting deeper and deeper, and the bones are hunting. " Pi Rixiu replied without thinking: "There are three kinds of medicines: pueraria lobata, coptis chinensis and cortex Lycii." (Hongmei Chunling)

Self-defense is like bamboo juice, when will fennel worship the court?

This poem uses nine kinds of traditional Chinese medicines, such as Yizhi, Semen Vaccariae, Rhizoma Sparganii, Aristolochia, Schizonepeta, Poria, Fangji, Julie and Fennel. Although the effect of drugs has nothing to do with the content of the poem. However, these drug names reveal the plot of Journey to the West, which is worth pondering. "One ambition" means that he firmly believes that he was ordered by the King of Tang to go to the Radayan Temple in the Western Heaven, that is, Tianzhu, to get the Mahayana Sutra. "Liu Wang Liu Xing" means that Emperor Taizong arranged a farewell dinner for his brother Sanzang and sent officials out of Chang 'an. "Sparganzi" refers to the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand. Aristolochia is the image and voice of Tang Priest and Xiao Bai rushing forward. "Poria cocos" refers to the Buddha in the western heaven; "Self-defense" and "bamboo juice" refer to the pure and flawless mind of Tang Priest, just like the clarified juice of newly picked bamboo stems baked by fire; "Fennel" homophonic returned to his hometown, and only by learning from it did he successfully return to the Tang Dynasty. Wu Cheng'en, the author of The Journey to the West, chose several herbs that can express the content of the novel from the names of nearly 2,000 kinds of herbs, and combined the names of herbs with the whole poem, which skillfully followed the main plot of the novel, which was amazing. Twenty-eight times, Wu Cheng'en also wrote a poem "Xijiang Moon" in the name of medicine, describing the Monkey King's resistance to the invasion of Huaguoshan and the Orion who killed all monkeys:

Aconitum was stoned and Sha Fei hippocampus was injured. Guiling, the official of the Senate, was busy, and his blood was stained with cinnabar. Aconitum is hard to return, how to return betel nut? The body is lying in the Shan Ye, and the matchmaker is looking forward to it at home.

Here, nine Chinese medicinal names, Aconitum, Hippocampus, Ginseng, Cinnamomum cassia, Cinnabar, Radix Aconiti Lateralis, Areca catechu, Calomelas and Matchmaker, are used to vividly describe the fierce fighting scenes and the death of Orion at that time.