《救荒本草》是我国历史上最早的一部以救荒为宗旨的农学、植物学专著.作者朱(木肃)在洪武十一年受封为周王,十四年就藩开封.据明史本传记载:朱(木肃)“好学能词赋,以国土夷旷,庶草蕃庑,考核其可佐饥馑者得四百余种,绘图疏之.”洪熙元年(1425年)卒.死后谥作“定”,因而明史题为《救荒本草》周定王撰.朱(木肃)通过广泛搜集草木野菜种苗,栽培于自己的园圃中,亲自观察记录,鉴别性味,可充饥者,令画工照活植物绘图,比较详细而准确地记载了植物名称、别名、特征、可食部位、生长环境条件、分布和救饥加工方法等.作者身居王位,却能体察民间饥苦,忧虑水旱之年的饥民因 “Painting the Relief Materia Medica” is the earliest monograph of agronomy and botany for the purpose of saving the waste in our country’s history. The author Zhu (Mu Su) was detained as Zhou Wang in the eleventh year of Hongwu, and was opened in 14 years. According to Ming Shiben Biography: Zhu (Mu Su) “A good scholar of energy, to the land of the country, scrimmage grassland, assessment of their stigma can be more than four hundred species, drawing sparse.” Hong Xi first year (1425) died. After the completion of the “determined”, so the history of the Ming Dynasty titled “relief for the rest of the grass,” Zhou Dingwang essays. Zhu (Musu) through extensive collection of vegetation and vegetable seedlings, cultivated in their own garden, personal observation records, identify sexual taste, can be hunger The painter pictures the living plants and records the plant names, aliases, characteristics, edible parts, growth environment conditions, distribution and methods for saving hunger, etc. in a detailed and accurate manner. The author lives in the throne but can understand the folk hunger. , worrying about the hungry people in the flood years