药物知识起源于远古先民们长期的生产与生活实践,故上古时期有“神农尝百草”之类的传说。经先民们不断积累经验,口耳相传,至春秋战国时期,我国对药物已有了较多的认识,我们可从先秦时期的一些文献中见到不少有关药物知识的记载。例如《诗经》为西周时作品,是我国现存文献中最 Drug knowledge originated from the long-term production and life practices of ancient ancestors, so in ancient times there were legends such as “Shen Nong tasted a hundred herbs.” After the ancestors accumulated experience and relayed word of mouth, until the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States period, China had more knowledge of drugs. We can see many records of drug knowledge in some documents from the pre-Qin period. For example, The Book of Songs is a work of Western Zhou Dynasty and it is the most of the existing literature in China.