MYCOLOGY IN CHINA WITH EMPHASIS ON REVIEW OF THE ANCIENT LITERATURE

Ⅰ.Ancient Literature ReviewThe edibility and medicinal use of fungi were known to Chinese ancestors long,long ago.Our fathers recognized and used them as food,as medicine,in agriculture,in industry,for fermentation,etc.Fungi such as common mushrooms,wood ear,jellyfungus(Tremella fusiformis)have been used for food;china root(Poria coccus),ca-