SOYKING - Key Persons

Emperor Shen Nung was the father of both medicine and agriculture, for having owned a herbarium that listed all the amassed knowledge from previous millennia. The most ancient copy of his annotations have existed for almost 5,000 years, and in it, there is the first safe reference to a legume identified as soy - one of the five sacred grains including wheat, rice, barley, and millet.