Meat Ganoderma lucidum, also known as taiyou, for the ancient Han legend of Qin Shihuang struggled to find the medicine of immortality, Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", but also did record meat Ganoderma lucidum, and it is included in the Department of the Department of vegetables, edible, medicinal, as the top of the scripture, the efficacy of the long time to eat, light, ageless, prolonged immortal, according to the "Divine Farmer Classic of the Materia Medica" records: meat Ganoderma lucidum, non-toxic, tonic, beneficial to the essence of the qi, increase wisdom, the treatment of the chest, knot, very rare, is the top of all medicines, the long service light, the lung, the bitter, has the spleen and lungs. Taken for a long time to lighten the body and immortality, very rare, is the top of the hundred medicines, there are canonical records, tai chi is flat, bitter, non-toxic, has the value of tonifying the spleen and moistening the lungs, tonifying the kidneys and benefiting the liver, and so on.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas records that emperors such as Yao, Shun and Yu were all over 100 years old, and they all consumed the visual meat and poly meat, which was believed by the ancients to have the effect of longevity, so all the emperors in the later generations were searching for this kind of elixir that could make people live forever.

Flesh Ganoderma lucidum grows in the ground, the vitality is extremely strong, is the fourth form of life in nature non-plant, non-animal and non-fungus, scientists say taiyao is a kind of large mucus fungus complex, but its microscope can not be observed under the cellular structure, in ancient times, considered to be the immortal medicine of longevity.

October 20, 2014, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, Mr. Liu because of its inadvertently dug up a rare cylindrical mushroom-shaped white taiyou, attracted a lot of taiyou collection enthusiasts, this taiyou diameter of 22 centimeters, 33 centimeters high, weighing 22 pounds, touching the very elastic, the outer skin is yellowish, the flesh is snow-white, the outer skin is relatively hard, such as cowhide, with a knife easily can not be broken, the outer skin is relatively hard, such as cowhide, with a knife easily can not be broken. The white meat part of the relatively tender, elasticity is good, there are meat texture. It is understood that the discovery of this belongs to the meat in the white taiyou, is the highest grade in the taiyou.

On March 2, 2015, Mr. Liu from Fangzheng County, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, reacted to the local media, saying that he had dug up a thousand-year-old meat ganoderma lucidum weighing 28 catties, with a pale light yellow appearance, distributed with small irregular spots, the surface covered with protrusions similar to blood vessels, and the outer skin was hard in texture, and the inner meat of the meat ganoderma lucidum could be seen from the broken parts to be delicate and snow-white like fat, with a meat silk texture texture.