The story of Zhang Zhongjing and Jiaozi
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, disasters were serious everywhere, and many people fell ill. There is a famous doctor in Nanyang named Zhang Ji and Zhong Jing. He studied medical books hard since childhood, learned from others and became the founder of traditional Chinese medicine. Zhang Zhongjing is not only good at medical skills, but also noble in medical ethics. He took the poor and the rich seriously and saved countless lives. When Zhang Zhongjing was an official in Changsha, he often treated the people. One year, when the local plague was prevalent, he made a cauldron at the entrance of Yamen, giving up medicine to save people, which was deeply loved by Changsha people. After Zhang Zhongjing retired from Changsha and returned to his hometown, he walked to the shore of the Baihe River in his hometown and saw many poor people hungry and cold, and their ears were frozen. He was very upset and determined to treat them. When Zhang Zhongjing came home, many people sought medical treatment. He is as busy as a bee, but he always remembers those poor people with frozen ears. He followed Changsha's example and told his disciples to build a medical shed and cauldron in an open space in Dongguan, Nanyang, and open it on the day of winter solstice to send medicine to the poor to treat their injuries. Zhang Zhongjing's medicine is called "Quhan Joule Decoction". Its practice is to put mutton, pepper and some herbs to remove cold into a pot and cook them. After cooking, take these things out and chop them up, and make them into ear-shaped "Joules" with leather bags. After cooking in the pot, it will be distributed to patients who ask for medicine. Everyone has two charming ears and a bowl of soup. After eating Quhan decoction, people feel feverish all over, their qi and blood are smooth, and their ears are warm. After eating it for a while, the patient's rotten ears healed. Zhang Zhongjing didn't give up taking medicine until New Year's Eve. On the first day of the new year, people celebrate the new year and the recovery of rotten ears. They cook New Year's food like Joules and eat it on the first morning. People call this kind of food "jiaozi's Ear", "jiaozi" or partial eclipse, and eat it on the winter solstice and the first day of the New Year to commemorate the day when Zhang Zhongjing opened the shed to give medicine and cure patients.
Zhang Zhongjing was a great doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty. His name is Ji, and the word Zhongjing. Born on February 26th, 150, and died in February19. He is now from Nanyang, Henan. Zhang Zhongjing was gifted and eager to learn since he was a child, and especially liked to discuss medical works. His uncle Zhang Bozu was a famous doctor in Nanyang at that time. Zhongjing worshipped him as a teacher, and often accompanied him to cure diseases, and studied Neijing and Bian Que's eighty-one classic. After several years of hard study, under the guidance of his uncle, his medical skills improved rapidly, and at the same time, he collected a lot of prescriptions for treating diseases and became a famous good doctor.
Although Zhang Zhongjing is good at medical skills, he abides by his uncle's teaching of "assiduously seeking ancient teachings and learning from others". In addition to practicing his past medical works hard, whenever he hears about famous doctors and effective ways to treat diseases, he goes to the teacher for help. Fan Mu has such a story in The Legend of Zhang Zhongjing. It is said that there is a famous doctor named Shen Huai in Nanyang, who is over seventy years old, but he has no children or daughters and no successors. He couldn't pass on his medical skills to his descendants and gradually became ill. His illness is getting worse and worse. After Zhang Zhongjing knew it, he gave him a prescription. He rubbed a catty of whole grains into a ball, coated it with cinnabar for external use, and told him to eat it all at once. Shen Huai looked at the prescription and felt very funny. He asked his family to make pills according to the prescription and hang them under the eaves. Everyone pointed at pills and made fun of Zhang Zhongjing. Every day, he falls ill unconsciously. Shen Huai suddenly realized that he admired Zhang Zhongjing and was ashamed of him. When Zhang Zhongjing visited him, he said, "We are doctors who benefit the people. My husband has no children. Aren't we young people all my husband's children? " Why worry about no successor? "Shen Huai felt very reasonable, so he taught all his medical skills to young doctors such as Zhang Zhongjing.
Zhang Zhongjing has a good friend named Ning Yuan, who went to visit Zhongjing's home one day. During the chat, Zhang Zhongjing looked at Ningyuan's face and felt his pulse, saying that he had quenched his thirst and was still in the early stage. After 3 months, I had headache and insomnia, and the frequency of urination increased. After six months, I was hungry and thirsty, and my urine was thick; A year later, he died of gangrene on his back. So I wrote a prescription for Ningyuan. Ningyuan went home, thinking that Zhongjing was mystifying, tore up the prescription and threw it away. Half a year later, his condition developed as Zhang Zhongjing said, and he hurried to find Zhang Zhongjing. But Zhongjing said, it's already late, so prepare for the funeral. Ning Yuan thought that he would die after half a year anyway, so he might as well go sightseeing now. A year later, Ning Yuan came back to visit Zhang Zhongjing. When Zhang Zhongjing saw it, he was very surprised and thought that he must have met the man of God. Ningyuan told Zhang Zhongjing that he traveled to Maoshan, worked as a boy servant in Qing porch, and treated him in the old way. Zhang Zhongjing deeply felt that there were mountains outside the mountain, so he left his hometown and went to Maoshan to learn from his teacher.
Zhang Zhongjing was diligent and eager to learn, learned from others, had superb medical skills, was sincere and responsive, so Nanyang people recommended him as Xiaolian and became Changsha Prefecture. During his tenure in Changsha, he still went deep into the people, paid attention to various diseases, collected folk remedies, called national famous doctors to discuss medicine, and constantly enriched his medical knowledge. Later, due to the epidemic of typhoid fever in China, in less than ten years, more than 200 people in Zhang Zhongjing's own family died of 130 diseases. Therefore, he resigned as the prefect, and after more than ten years' efforts, he finally "compiled nine volumes of vegetarian questions, eighty-one difficult problems, a theory of yin and yang, a record of pregnant drugs and a dialectical pulse, and became sixteen volumes of Treatise on Febrile Diseases." (Annotate Treatise on Febrile Diseases). Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases have only been handed down from later generations, including Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber, which are adapted by Wang Shuhe in Jin Dynasty, accounting for the second of the four classics of Chinese medicine, and integrating theories, methods and prescriptions in one furnace. Hua Tuo called Treatise on Febrile Diseases "This is a real living book!" Since the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing's theory has been widely circulated at home and abroad. Japan, North Korea and other countries call him a "master" of medicine and enjoy a high reputation in the international medical community. In China, he was called a medical sage.