Yang Cheng stepped forward quickly, squatted in front of the plant, and examined it carefully.
"Yes, it's ramie!"
Yang Cheng looked delighted, the plant in front of him was what he had been looking for!
This world is so unreliable, as if someone planned it at will. Plants and trees grow in random directions, and plants with different habits grow together, while plants with the same habits grow in completely different directions.
For example, near the Qingque Tribe, there are bamboos that only grow in the warm environment of the south, but there are also coniferous forests that grow in the cold weather of the north.
This made it impossible for Yang Cheng to infer where on the planet the Qingque tribe lived based on the existing plants and organisms.
It is difficult for Yang Cheng to judge whether it is the long winter and short summer in higher dimensions or the short winter and long summer in low latitudes.
What's even more surprising to him is that the climate changes in spring, summer, autumn and winter in this world are sequential, and there is no change in the length of the seasons due to differences in location.
Therefore, Yang Cheng had been coming to the Qingque Tribe for so long and wanted to find materials for making clothes, but he didn't know where to start.
After all, spring is here, and if you wear thick animal skin clothes in autumn and winter, your body will be so hot that you will suffer from prickly heat?
Although it doesn't matter to the male tribesmen, it doesn't matter if they spend the spring and summer shirtless and wearing short animal skin clothes.
But what about the women? Also shirtless?
Yang Cheng, who traveled from the civilized world, couldn't imagine such a scene. It was necessary. If the Qingque tribe wanted to transform from a primitive tribe to a civilized tribe, the clothing issue was something that had to be solved.
The plant in front of me is the key to solving the dressing problem.
This plant is a shrub, about 1 meter high. The upper part of the stem and petioles are densely covered with long spreading hairs and nearly spreading and appressed short hairs. The leaves are herbaceous, oval in shape, 12 cm long and wide. About 8 cm.
The top is sharp, the base is nearly truncate or wide wedge-shaped, the edge has teeth above the base, the upper part is slightly rough, sparsely covered with short hairs, and the lower part is densely covered with snow-white felt hairs.
It's quite like a plant that Yang Cheng has seen on earth - ramie!
Ramie is a plant that lives in the south on earth. Because its growth habit requires a warm environment, only the south can adapt to the needs of ramie growth. my country once accounted for 90% of the world's ramie production, so this kind of The humble plant is also called "Chinese grass".
Yang Cheng remembered that when he lived in the countryside as a child, this plant was still relatively common in the countryside.
Because at that time, rural areas were relatively poor and backward. Unlike today, you can just buy a piece of clothing and place an order on a shopping app. Clothes online are cheap and comfortable.
At that time, transportation was inconvenient and productivity was still low, so ramie was often chosen to make clothes, especially summer clothes.
This is mainly because the cost of using ramie is relatively low, and it is acceptable to people of all ages in rural areas.
Moreover, the stem fiber of ramie is slender, strong, white, shiny, strong in tensile strength, water-resistant, elastic and insulating. The linen woven into it is thin and transparent, and is used to make clothes. You will feel very cool when wearing clothes. , just enough to dissipate the summer heat.
Ramie cultivation is also very simple and does not require deliberate cultivation. This plant can reproduce quickly as long as it has a warm environment.
And according to records, ramie has been cultivated in China for at least 4,700 years, and has been cultivated as early as the Neolithic Age.
This is very suitable for the situation of the Qingque tribe. The Qingque tribe is now transforming from the Neolithic Age to the Bronze Age.
Ramie was widely used in cloth production in the feudal era. It was not until modern times that it was replaced by modern industrialized fibers and gradually withdrew from the stage of history.
Yang Cheng remembered that when he grew up, ramie cultivation reached its peak. In rural areas, ramie could be seen almost everywhere. However, when other materials arrived, this crop had no value in Yang Cheng's eyes. Can't eat or play.
However, who would have thought that there is such a thing as time travel? And he also traveled back to primitive society!
Looking at the ramie in his hand, Yang Cheng felt very happy. He was already thinking that after large-scale planting of ramie, the Qingque tribe would not only solve their clothing problem, but it could even be used to make carpets, sacks, paper, etc.
Ramie also has a second function, which is that it can be used as medicine.
Ramie itself is also a very good medicinal material. In ancient times, people also liked to use ramie to treat diseases.
The root is a diuretic and antipyretic, and has an antifetal effect; the leaves are a hemostatic agent, used to treat trauma and bleeding; the roots and leaves are used together to treat acute stranguria, urethritis and bleeding.
Well, as the saying goes, the antidote is ten steps away from a poisonous snake.
It may not be surprising that ramie appears in the Black Snake tribe. There are so many snakes in the cave, and some of them may be poisonous snakes. The appearance of ramie here may be used to detoxify.
Witchcrafts such as healing and healing are very wonderful. They can heal wounds quickly, but the question is what should I do if I am poisoned?
Yang Cheng has never used healing techniques to treat poisoned totem warriors.
In addition to being used to make clothes and cool and detoxify, ramie leaves can also be used to raise silkworms and be used as feed, and even the seeds can be squeezed for oil, which can be used to make soap and eat.
Let’s not talk about silkworms for now. Yang Cheng has not found silkworms in this world so far, but maybe he can find them in the future.
Let's not talk about that for now. Making soap is a good thing. For a long time, everyone in the Qingque tribe either didn't wash their hair or washed their bodies with water randomly, which made their hair sticky and very uncomfortable.
The same is true for Yang Cheng. Although you can use quicklime to wash your hair, it is inconvenient. Every time you wash your hair, there will be a lot of debris on your head, which requires additional treatment.
It's great now that we have ramie.
Wash your hair, take a bath, get dressed, make paper, detoxify...
Hehe, this is really a good thing.
Yang Cheng thought about it, looked at Ramie, and couldn't help but giggle.
Yan Lin was very puzzled when she saw Yang Cheng squatting in front of Ramie, smiling stupidly, drooling from his mouth.
Wu, what's going on?
Could it be that he was possessed by some evil witchcraft?
"Wu, what are you doing here?"
Yan Lin walked forward worriedly and asked.
Hearing Yan Lin's voice, Yang Cheng came back to his senses and calmly wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth.
"Ahem..."
Yang Cheng coughed twice and said with a smile: "Hehehehe, Yan Lin, I found the treasure!"
Hearing this, Yan Lin's eyes immediately lit up, and she turned left and right around Yang Cheng, looking for him.
"Wu, where are you? Where is the baby?"
"Well, no, why didn't I see it?"
Yan Lin wondered while searching around Yang Cheng.
