Opium was introduced into China as a tribute during the glorious age of Tang Dynasty, and people at that time only considered poppy flowers as rare plants for appreciation. During the Five Dynasties, Song Dynasty, and Yuan Dynasty, Chinese people started to use poppy for disease treatment. During the sixth year in the reign of Emperor Wanli, Ming Dynasty (1578), besides poppy capsules and seed, Li Shizhen’s Compendium of Materia Medica also recorded A Furong (opium), fluid of poppy flowers, as new medicine.
According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, “opium has rarely been heard by previous generations, but is useful, and is the fluid of poppy flowers.” Li Shizhen also said, “It is commonly called opium, and the meaning is unknown. Or it is called A Furong. “A” means I, and it gets the name as it looks like the lotus flower (furong).”
Table of comparisons between nationwide drug control and the drug control in Guizhou
5. Resurgence period (from the 1980s till now)
Since the 1980s, international drug trafficking groups and traffickers have been trafficking a large number of drugs to China by exploiting China’s reform and opening up. In particular, the “Golden Triangle” and the “Golden Crescent,” two of the three major illegal drug production and sales bases in the world, borders on Yunnan, Xinjiang, and other places in China. Such a special geographic location intensifies the flow of overseas drugs into China, so overseas drugs enter China from many places and spread across the country. In addition to many domestic factors, drug problem has resurged from overseas drug transit and trafficking to domestic drug consumption. The problem has turned from domestic drug consumption to domestic drug production. With drug spreading, drugs have again become a serious problem bringing calamity to the country and people.
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