《四民月令》 / Simin Yueling

Overview

《四民月令》 / Simin Yueling is an Eastern Han seasonal text that enters the wiki through two 芮淇讲透资治通鉴 episodes: one on New Year food and ritual, and one on historical pepper-poisoning claims.

Current Profile

The New Year episode cites the text for pepper-cypress wine, using pepper fragrance and cypress longevity or protective meaning to place drink, plant symbolism, health hopes, and seasonal ritual together. Hanji 331-4 attributes to a note on the text a different pepper claim: pepper is pungent, very heating, and toxic, with closed fruit described as especially dangerous.

Together the episodes show one ingredient moving across culinary, ritual, medicinal, and hazardous registers. They do not establish the exact transmitted wording, commentary layer, botanical species, or historical practice, so the text is an evidence anchor to verify rather than proof that everyday pepper use was lethal.

Key Characteristics

• Eastern Han seasonal text used in the wiki as a record of calendrical and household practice.
• Cited for pepper-cypress wine as an early New Year custom.
• Connects fragrant plants, longevity wishes, protective belief, and material festival practice.
• Cited in a separate episode for a note describing pepper, especially closed fruit, as toxic.
• Requires edition- and commentary-sensitive reading before its wording is used as botanical or toxicological proof.

Evidence

• Seasonal-custom profile: Hanji 150 PLUS cites 《四民月令》 for pepper-cypress wine and interprets the ingredients through fragrance, longevity, and protection from illness.
• Toxicity attribution: Hanji 331-4 attributes to a note on the text the description of pepper as pungent, very heating, and toxic, especially when the fruit remains closed.

Qualifications

Both inputs are short podcast summaries rather than textual studies. They do not identify the edition, commentator, manuscript history, plant species, or relationship between the base text and later annotation. The pepper-cypress custom and toxicity wording should remain source-scoped until checked against the transmitted text and specialist scholarship.

What Changed

• Added the toxicity-note attribution alongside the existing New Year drink record.
• Distinguished ritual use from a separate hazard claim without treating them as contradictory.
• Migrated the page to the synthesis-v1 evidence structure.

Relationships

• 元旦节日层累 - uses the text as evidence for layered New Year practice.
• Festival Food Material History - situates pepper-cypress wine in the material history of holiday foods and drinks.
• Chinese Folk Religion Layering - connects plant use with protection and auspicious meaning.
• Forensic Toxicology - supplies the dose, route, preparation, and evidence checks needed for the toxicity claim.
• 《荆楚岁时记》 - companion seasonal text cited for New Year food and drink.