"Compendium of Materia Medica" records that carrot "came from Hu Di in Yuan Dynasty, and it smells slightly like radish, hence the name."

This statement is not accurate. On the basis of Daguan Materia Medica, Shaoxing Materia Medica officially revised in the Southern Song Dynasty added six kinds of medicinal materials, such as carrot, calamine, tin grease, pea, coriander and ginkgo.

Therefore, it can be said that carrots appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty. There are also many mistakes in the annotation of Li Shizhen's Materia Medica in past dynasties. Therefore, he conducted archaeological evidence collection, identified doubts and mistakes, extensively collected books, and compiled this book on the basis of Tang Shenwei's Classic and Historical Evidence of Materia Medica in the Song Dynasty.

Compendium of Materia Medica has many versions and is an extended material. Except for various foreign language versions or abridged versions, there are about 72 kinds in China, which can be roughly divided into "one ancestor and three systems", namely, the ancestral version (Jinling version, Sheyuan Tang version) and the Jiangxi version, the former version and the Zhang version.

This system in Jiangxi was mainly carved for Xia Liangxin and Zhang Dingsi in the 31st year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1603). The Qianben system is mainly aimed at the engraving of Liuyou Hall in Hangzhou by Qian Wei in the 13th year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1640), and the copying of Sikuquanshu from Qianlong to Qianlong in Wu Yuchang Taihe Tang Ben in the 12th year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1655).

The Zhangben system is mainly an engraving of Wei Gu Zhai in Nanjing written by Zhang Shaotang in the 11th year of Guangxu reign (1885). The Jiangxi edition and the previous edition were searched, and more than ten pictures were added after redrawing the drug map, with the addendum to Compendium of Materia Medica. 1957 people's health publishing house photocopied this book according to Zhang Ben, and the latest version is Liu Hengru's proofreading book published by people's health publishing house 1977 and Jinling book published by Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House 1993.

Phoenix Net-Do you know the origin of carrots? The record in Compendium of Materia Medica is inaccurate.