Vegetable roots discourse

" Ming China ( 1368 - 1644 ), a time of political intrigue and financial upheaval, was also a time of astounding accomplishments in art and literature. In 1403, when Gutenberg was seven years old, the Ming encyclopedia, Yongle Dadian ( Yung Lo Ta Tien ) was begun. Completed five years later, it comprised 22,937 volumes! And around 1590, when Shakespeare finished Henry VI and Edmund Spenser published The Faerie Queen, a hundred years after Columbus " discovered " the New World, an accomplished scholar and philosopher, Hong Zicheng, retired from public life and settled down to write an informal…