The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Yes, I'm quite sure. I'm having a good chuckle about Google AI characterizing the sources available to the Ming scribe as "badly scraped", which is at once deeply unfair to this textual tradition and the heart of the matter.

Well, Google AI insists that you are wrong.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. to the Zhenglei page at the Chinese Text Project that supposedly contains the Shennong bencao "Red Rooster" recipe.  (Is that where you got your text?)  The black text is supposed to "quoted" and the green text is "interpolated". 

Indeed the black text of that page starting at parag 20 contains my copy of the Red Rooster recipe (black bolded parts below) but also some extraneus material (purple unbolded parts)  

# block 20
Green: 禽上
Black: 丹雄雞味甘微溫微寒無毒主女人崩中漏下赤白沃補虛溫中止血久伤乏疮通神杀毒辟不祥头主杀鬼东门上
Green: 臣禹錫等...

However, Google AI insists that this digital Zhenglei file at the Chinese Text Project fails to record all the typographical distinctions visible in the printed book. Specifically it claims that the original non-interpolated Shennong Bencao was printed in reverse color (white letters on black).   And, according to the Chinese Origin Theory, the Dictator was reading from a printed book -- not from an internet webpage.

Anyway, the fact that scholars were able to reconstruct the uninterpolated Shennong Bencaojing in the 1700s implies that in some extant books that original text was somehow marked out.

So, who is hallucinating -- Google AI, or you?

(You did not ask some lalamo to criticize my proposal, did you?)

All the best, regardless --stolfi