The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

For whatever it is worth, I have put on my univ's server the digital files of the Shennong Bencaojing that I am using.  

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bencao-4.uts  Chinese characters (simplified), Unicode, UTF-8 encoding.
bencao-4.pys  Mandarin reading of the above, in pinyin with diacritics for tones.

As explained in the comments at the top of the first file, it is the merge of two digital files obtained from the internet.  

They were in different orders, and both contained some errors, like entries smashed together or truncated, and mixed traditional/simplified characters.  I fixed the errors I could detect, but more may remain. (The book is supposed to have 365 entries, but the input files had less than 360, and my merge and fixes got the number up to 363.) 

I also mapped all to simplified characters because they are generally easier on my poor eyes. 

I have also added punctuation, like ［］around the main "keywords", to highlight the structure of the entries.

Please ignore the other files in that directory, they are garbage or out of date.

All the best, --stolfi