仙道小说中服食松柏成仙情节的现实背景

The Realistic Background of the Plot of Becoming an Immortal after Eating the Pine and Cypress in the Fairy Novels

现实生活中,在灾荒之年,人们往往会以松柏为食充饥;而在传统医学文献中,松柏还有治病的功效。魏晋之际,道教迅速发展,贵族与平民分别在自己生活的基础上创造了一些食松柏而成仙的故事,食用松柏成为道教修道成仙的一种方法。

In the realistic life, people always took the pine and cypress as food in the years of famine. And it was said in the traditional medical books that the pine and cypress could be used as medicine. Between the Wei Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, when the Taoism had a great development, the aristocrats and the common people created separately .some stories about becoming an immortal after eating the pine and cypress upon the basis of their daily life. Gradually, the Taoists believed that one could become an immortal after eating the pine and cypress.