Li Shizhen said that the southern producer of schizandra is red in color, and the northern producer is black in color, and the 2020 Pharmacopoeia says that the northern schizandra is red purplish dark red, and the southern schizandra is brownish red dark brown? Both books are right, Li Shizhen and the modern pharmacopoeia referred to the northern five flavors of different origins. Now the northern five fresh for the reddish-purple, dark red for a long time, large particles, the price is expensive, the most expensive 160 yuan per kilogram; southern five dark brown, small particles, the price is also cheap, the most expensive 90 yuan per kilogram. North five flavors are mainly produced in the northeast, especially in Heilongjiang Province. Li Shizhen is the Ming Dynasty Hubei Jin Chu people, he said the northern five flavors produced in Hebei generation, when Hebei is the north, and not now the northeast, 600 years ago, the Ming Dynasty, the northeast to the Jin Khanate jurisdiction, not the territory of the Ming. Now the Northeast belongs to our country, now the main production in the Northeast, the South five flavors after vinegar how can not become reddish purple, or gray-brown.