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Did the person Zhang Zhongjing actually exist in history?

Zhang Zhongjing was a real person in history, although there was no biography of him in the official history of that time, there were still sporadic records in other historical sources and later official history.

Zhang Zhongjing (c. 150-219), known as Ji (名機), with the initials Zhongjing (仲景), was a native of Niyang County, Nanyang County, Eastern Han Dynasty (present-day Dengzhou City, Henan Province, and Zhenping County area). He was a famous medical practitioner and the author of "Treatise on Typhoid and Miscellaneous Diseases", the first classic in the history of Chinese medicine that possesses rationale, method, prescription and medicine, and was honored as the Sage of Medicine by later generations. He was one of the Five Sages of Nanyang.

Zhang Zhongjing

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a famous scholar named He Stern (何颙), a native of Xiangxiang (Xiangyang, Hubei). -He was a native of Xiangxiang, Nanyang (Xiangyang, Hubei Province), and was framed by eunuchs during the Second Scourge of Party Imprisonment. He was falsely accused by eunuchs during the Second Scourge of Party Imprisonment and fled to the territory of Runan County.He Stern once had dealings with Zhang Zhongjing and appreciated his talent so much that he once said to him, "You will be a good doctor in the future if you use your mind well but do not rhyme well" (He Stern's Farewell Biographies).. It means that he is talented, good at thinking and learning, intelligent and steady, but does not have the temperament and elegance of an official, and is not suitable to be an official. As long as he concentrates on learning medicine, he can become a good doctor in the future.He Stern said in Xiangyang Fu Zhi: "Zhongjing's art is more refined than Bozu's." He Stern was biographed in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty.

Indirect proof that Zhang Zhongjing existed in history is also found in the Book of Jin - Biography of Huangfu Qui, which contains these words:"Cang Gong developed his secret in the Han Emperor, Hua Tuo stored his essence in his unique knowledge, and Zhongjing drove his skill in finalizing his prescriptions." In Huangfu Jing's opinion, Zhang Zhongjing was the same as Cang Gong and Hua Tuo, both of whom left a valuable medical legacy.

Zhang Zhongjing's medical writings are documented in official history.Sui Shu - Jing Ji Zhi: "Zhang Zhongjing Fang (张仲景方), fifteen volumes of Zhongjing, a native of the Later Han Dynasty."

New Book of Tang - Art and Literature III: "Fifteen volumes of Wang Shuhe's Zhang Zhongjing's Prescriptions. And The Treatise on Typhoid and Stroke Disease, ten volumes."

Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Typhoid and Miscellaneous Diseases was written at the beginning of the third century A.D. It consists of 16 volumes and includes two parts, the Treatise on Typhoid and the Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases. The original text was once scattered due to the military disaster and war.

Zhang Zhongjing

In the Jin Dynasty, the famous doctor Wang Shuhe collected and organized the Treatise on Typhoid Fever into 36 volumes. After the later calibration, the Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases was divided into two, and organized into two books, the Treatise on Typhoid Fever and the Essentials of the Golden Chamber.

Song Dynasty, there is a person called Gao Ruoner, very knowledgeable, he "because of his mother's illness, so both the medical books, although the state doctors are submissive.Zhang Zhongjing "typhoid fever", Sun Simiao "Fang Shu" and "outside the secret of the Taiwan" for a long time does not pass, Sydney school blackmail line, the world began to know that there is a book.Many famous doctors came from Weizhou, and all of them learned from Gao." (Song History - Gao Ruoner Biography) This record shows that Gao Ruoner had examined and analyzed Zhang Zhongjing's The Secret of Typhoid Fever, which made the world aware of the existence of this medical book.

Although there is no record of Zhang Zhongjing being the governor of Changsha, nor is there any record of his genealogy, other materials can still prove that Zhang Zhongjing is a historical person.

Existing. I am from Zhangzhai Village, Zhaizhuang Village, Joji East Town, Dengzhou City. This Zhaizhuang village was called Zhongjing brigade in the 60s and 70s; in the 90s of last century, the Japanese medical profession visited and left a cherry tree, which was unfortunately pulled out by the ignorant villagers in the name of obstructing the drought watering. Joji East a junior high school teacher Zhang Shuqiao found, brought to the campus quickly planted, carefully cared for, but unfortunately ultimately did not live.

Thanks for the invitation:

Many people are not unfamiliar with Zhang Zhongjing, who was a famous medical doctor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and was honored as the Sage of Medicine by later generations.

The story of Zhang Zhongjing's extensive collection of medical prescriptions and his writing of the heirloom masterpiece "Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever" is even more widely circulated, and even the principle of identification and treatment established in this book is precisely the basic principle of today's Chinese medicine clinic, and is also the soul of Chinese medicine.

So why would anyone doubt that Zhang Zhongjing never actually existed?

Most of their reasons are as follows.

One: It is argued that Chen Shou did not mention Zhang Zhongjing in his Three Kingdoms Journal.

But let us be clear that even many of those whom we now think of as possessing great achievements were not biographized, or even passed over in a single stroke, in the Three Kingdoms, so that it is not surprising that they were not mentioned even though they were.

Secondly, Zhang Zhongjing's body was returned to his hometown for burial and the construction of the Shrine of the Sage of Medicine and Zhongjing's Tomb in Nanyang, which was a major event that had not been raised in any explicitly documented book.

However, Zhang Zhongjing can be said to have been honored by later generations as the Sage of Medicine. Although the legend of its construction in Nanyang medical saint temple, but the specific construction time is not after the burial is not known, and its "Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases" is very likely in the time of its life, and did not cause a great deal of attention, for such a person is not recorded in the history of the book is really a normal thing.

As for its book by later generations to organize into the "typhoid fever" and the "Golden Poverty Essentials" two books, and gradually become a classic, but also not a day, or, for those who write the history of the book, did not feel that this is worth leaving a mark.

Third: Some people even went to the Changsha Taishou Zhi just to prove that Zhang Zhongjing had not done it, and the reason was that the famous doctor's biography mentioned his official position as Changsha Taishou.

One of the facts we have to think about at this point is that we tend to deify, or at least exaggerate, the ancients, especially those who seem to have made a huge contribution nowadays, so its likely they didn't make it to that level, but that doesn't mean the person didn't exist.

Also, if this person was really a fabrication, why would the real author of the Typhoid Miscellany have fabricated such a character? And what was the significance?

When you think about it this way, the claim that history doesn't exist goes out the window.

A generation of "medical saint" Zhang Zhongjing, should not be false. Although the official history of his record is quite small, but his work "Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases" is recognized as a medical masterpiece, and is still a must study for Chinese medicine practitioners.

Of course, there are some historical reasons why there are too few records about him. First of all, he lived in the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, familiar with the history of friends should know, that is a chaotic world, the major history books, state and county records are more or less have a blank period. And history books mostly remember political figures and historical events, as for other areas of people and things, it depends on the mood, the reason why Hua Tuo can be in the history books, that is because he almost gave Cao Cao a dipper.


As for the genealogy, at that time, the plague was rampant, Zhang Zhongjing's clan died because of the disease in nine out of ten, the family vitality was greatly injured, coupled with the war, perhaps his lineage, has long been gone.

And apart from that, Zhang Zhongjing did not leave a little trace of history behind.

Like this one."Cang Gong developed his secrets in the Han Dynasty, Hua Tuo stored his essence in his unique knowledge, and Zhongjing drove his skill in determining prescriptions.." From the book of Jin - Huangfu Qui biography of Huangfu Qui's mouth, Huangfu Qui that Zhang Zhongjing's can be ranked with Hua Tuo, Cang Gong medical everyone. In addition, in the "Sui Book", "Tang Book" have Zhang Zhongjing related records.

I can only say that if even "Zhang Zhongjing" is a fake, then there is no real Chinese medicine!

Zhang Zhongjing, as the "Sage of Healing", his medical skills naturally reached the top level, so what did this legendary doctor do in the course of his life?

Doctors as a profession in the present day is considered very decent, in addition to a little hard work, its treatment and status are considered relatively high. However, in ancient times is not so, the ancients most want to pursue is the merit of the imperial examinations, which can bring their own status of the knocking brick. The status of doctors was relatively humble, and there were many periods of time when it was even recorded that only those who were not talented went to study medicine. So Dr. Zhang himself, against this background, did not intend to become a full-time doctor in the beginning.

This person in the process of the imperial examination also won the merit, and later once did the Changsha governor post, this position is equivalent to our mayor today, that time Changsha is also considered a more important city, from the career point of view he is still more promising.

Zhang Zhongjing himself had a high interest in medicine because he had known the suffering of the people, so he wanted to be able to help them. During his administration in Changsha, he issued a special rule that on the first and fifteenth days of each month, the doors of the government offices were completely open and anyone could come to the lobby to see a doctor. Of course, the chief physician was Tai Shou Zhang.

At first the people didn't believe it, and many of them just came to the Yamen with a curious mind to see what was going on. However, as each patient was cured, the opening of a clinic in the government office spread, so much so that every time these two fixed days came later, many people would crowd the gate and line up for medical treatment.

Because the place of medical treatment was above the lobby of the Yamen, many people called the Taishou a sitting doctor, and this new title for doctors spread from this time, and is still in use today.

A year after taking office as a governor, a large-scale plague epidemic broke out in the country. Zhang Zhongjing himself had a large family, and according to records, his family size amounted to more than two hundred people.

But it was because of this disaster that many of his people were lost. Later on, he witnessed the tragic situation of the epidemic, for a person with the heart of saving the world, he could no longer bear it. So he decisively stepped down from his post, completely bid farewell to his career, and only wanted to concentrate on the study of medicinal herbs and pathology, to bring this terrible epidemic under control.

The later process is more difficult, Zhang Zhongjing began more than ten years of research and investigation activities, many of our country's mountains have left his traces, he tasted a variety of herbs in these mountains, in-depth understanding of a variety of herbs in the science of pathology, after the "Injury to the Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases" is also the official "debut".

The value of this book is indescribable, a real collection of practical research and theoretical knowledge of pharmacology tome. Later, he not only relied on his own knowledge to save his family, even the raging plague was also completely controlled. The people were very thankful for this event, and for this world-saving healer, only the word "medical saint" could be worthy of him.

Although Zhang Zhongjing's life was a difficult one, it can be summarized very simply. He had a heart to save the world and a heart to be a healer, and after being baptized by disasters and hardships, he finally became a healer.

Thank you~This is a question that should be answered by medical history and literature professionals. A long time ago, I saw someone from the "Three Kingdoms" did not record, Zhang's genealogy inside this person, Changsha Fangzhi did not record, etc. to prove that Zhang Zhongjing this person does not exist. At that time, I was indeed torn.


I think it exists! If Zhang Zhongjing is a fake, what else is real in Chinese medicine?

Zhang Zhongjing (张仲景), a famous medical doctor at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, is known as the Sage of Medicine. It is rumored that Zhang Zhongjing was a filial piety scholar and a governor of Changsha, which is why he was known as Zhang Changsha. Zhang collected a wide range of medical prescriptions and wrote the legendary masterpiece "Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever". It established the principle of identification and treatment, which is the basic principle of Chinese medicine and the soul of Chinese medicine. The Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases also made a great contribution to the science of prescriptions, creating many dosage forms and documenting a large number of effective prescriptions. The therapeutic principles of the six meridians established in it have been highly respected by medical practitioners of all generations. This is the first medical monograph in China that establishes the rules of diagnosis and treatment from theory to practice, and it is one of the most influential works in the history of Chinese medicine. It is an essential classic for later scholars to study Chinese medicine, and has been widely emphasized by medical students and clinical doctors.

There is no mention of Zhang Zhongjing's name in the Records of the Three Kingdoms and the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. Is there no such person?

Zhang Zhongjing was certainly mentioned in the history books, except that there was no biography of the man himself, and he was alluded to by later generations.

First, the witnesses.

For example, the famous doctor Huang Fu Qui in Wei and Jin Dynasty wrote "The Discourse on Interpretation and Persuasion", which mentioned that: Hua Tuo is specialized in unique knowledge, and Zhong Jing is skillful in formulating prescriptions.

Huang Fu Tuan wrote his Commentary on Persuasion between 265-275, which is only about 50 years from the end of the Han Dynasty (220), and only 100 years from the era in which Hua Tuo lived (about 200 years).

Huang Fuquan wrote an article that required the creation of an avatar to be juxtaposed with Hua Tuo?

Second, physical evidence.

Zhang Zhongjing's medical writings have also made their mark in the history books:

Sui Jingji Zhi:

a. Zhang zhongjing formula fifteen volumes zhongjing, Hou Han people. Liang has Huang Su medicinal formula twenty-five volumes, died. b. Medical prescription theory seven volumes Liang has Zhang zhongjing discerns typhoid ten volumes, cures the typhoid body examination formula, Xu Wenbo discerns the typhoid each volume, the typhoid general two volumes, the branch method deposits the Shensu formula five volumes, Wang Shuhe discusses the disease six volumes, Zhang zhongjing evaluates the disease to be square one volume, the Xu Shu Xiang, talks about the road to describe, the Xu Yue body cures the miscellaneous illnesses source of three volumes, the Gan Joon's 鈪糽 gangrene part of the party miscellaneous illnesses source of three volumes, the government collects to be three volumes, died. c. Zhang Zhongjing's formula for treating women, two volumes.

The old Tang book of scripture:

Zhang Zhongjing's Pharmaceutical Formulas, 15 Volumes (By Wang Shuhe.)

New Tang Book of Scriptures:

Wang Shuhe's Zhang Zhongjing's Medicinal Formulas, Volume 15

Song History of the Scriptures:

Zhang zhongjing "typhoid fever" 10 volumes "jin gui yao liu fang" three volumes zhang zhongjing wrote, wang shuhe set.

As for the time and author of the "He Stern Farewell Biography", it is unknown, so I still think that the corroboration of the biography of "Huang Fu Qui" is more secure.

With all the witnesses and physical evidence, it should be considered hard evidence, right?

It should be as real as Yue Fei's Nanyang (Wolonggang) handwritten monumental inscription of "The Tablet of the Exit of the Division" before and after his visit to Nanyang (Wolonggang), and it is not part of the South Korean county of Xiangyang, and it is even more real than Guo Jing and Huang Rong, who were created by the warrior Jin, who made the people of Xiangyang memorialize him with candles all over the city-otherwise where would the Treatise on Typhoid Fever be taken from?


Hello, I'm Dr. Chung-kook, the barefoot doctor.

Although I am only a barefoot doctor, I am still a doctor, and a barefoot doctor of Chinese medicine, so I firmly believe that our medical saint, Zhang Zhongjing, does exist in history.

Zhang Zhongjing (ca. 150~154 A.D. - ca. 215~219 A.D.), known as Ji (名機), courtesy name Zhongjing (仲景), was an ethnic Han Chinese, a native of Niyang County, Nanyang County, Eastern Han Dynasty (present-day Dengzhou City, Henan Province). He was a famous medical practitioner at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was honored as the Sage of Medicine by later generations.

Zhang Zhongjing collected a wide range of medical formulas and wrote the world-renowned masterpiece "Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever". In terms of prescription science, "Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever" made a great contribution, creating many dosage forms and documenting a large number of effective prescriptions. The formulas he created are called Jing Fang by modern people, what does it mean by Jing Fang? That is to say, as long as the evidence is the same, do not have to be the same symptoms, you can use the scripture, and still can follow the prescription to choose drugs, the amount of drugs do not have to change the kind. And the effect is as immediate. The establishment of the six meridian identification of the principle of treatment, by successive generations of medical practitioners.

The Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases, the first classic in the history of traditional Chinese medicine with theory, method, prescription and medicine, was worshipped as the "Sage of Medicine" after the Yuan and Ming dynasties, and even had a temple to offer incense. He was born in a declining bureaucratic family, and his father, Zhang Zonghan, was an official in the imperial court. Because of his family's special conditions, he was exposed to many books from an early age. After reading the story of Bian Magpie's diagnosis of Duke Huan of Qi in the history books, he developed admiration for Bian Magpie, which laid the foundation for him to become a famous doctor. During the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, he was elected as a filial piety scholar and became the governor of Changsha. Throughout his life, he diligently searched for ancient teachings, learned from many sources, collected the great achievements of his predecessors, and summarized the essence of the four generations, and wrote the immortal medical masterpiece "Treatise on Typhoid and Cold Miscellaneous Diseases". This medical book combines reasoning, method, prescription and medicine in one furnace, and opens the precedent of identification and treatment, forming a unique system of Chinese medical thought, which played a great role in promoting the development of medical science in later generations.

He was at the end of the tumultuous Eastern Han Dynasty, where years of war had turned the cities and farms into wilderness, and the people were displaced and starving. There were successive outbreaks of plague, especially in Luoyang, Nanyang and Huiji (Shaoxing), and Zhang Zhongjing witnessed the sadness of this tragic scene.

It is reported that since the first year of Jian'an of Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty (196 A.D.), two-thirds of the people died of infectious diseases in ten years, of which typhoid fever accounted for seventy percent. "Feeling the loss of past discussions, he was hurt by the fact that there was no way to save him from dying horizontally" (Preface to the Treatise on Typhoid Fever). Thus, he was furious to study medicine and aspired to be a doctor who could relieve people's sufferings. "To cure the diseases of the ruler and his relatives at the top, to save the poor and the lowly at the bottom, and to preserve the body and the whole body for a long time, so as to nourish his life" (The Treatise on Typhoid Fever, preface). Later generations of medical practitioners called Zhang Zhongjing the "Sage of Medicine" and regarded the Treatise on Typhoid as the medical text (after the Tang and Song dynasties, it was divided into two books, the Treatise on Typhoid and the Essentials of the Golden Chamber). From the Wei Jin Dynasty to the present day, for more than 1,600 years, it has been a must-read classic work for learning Chinese medicine.

At that time, there was a man named Zhang Bozu in his clan who was an extremely reputable doctor. In order to learn medicine, Zhang Zhongjing went to worship him as his teacher. Seeing that he was smart and studious, and had the spirit of hard study, Zhang Bozu taught him his own medical knowledge and skills without reservation, and Zhang Zhongjing got all of them. In the preface of the Treatise on Typhoid and Miscellaneous Diseases, there is a passage that reads: "The upper part of the treatments is to cure the illnesses of the ruler's relatives, the lower part is to save the poor and the lowly, and the middle part is to protect the growth of the whole and to nourish his body", which demonstrates the benevolence and benevolence of Zhongjing as a medical doctor and the later generation honors him as the "Sage of the Medical Sect".

Zhang Zhongjing's hometown is located in Nanyang County, Neiyang People (now Rangdong Town, Dengzhou City, Nanyang City, Henan Province), the people spontaneously come to Nanyang Medical Sage Shrine to commemorate and pay homage. Nanyang folk worship Zhang Zhongjing since the Han Dynasty continues to this day, "look forward to the Sage of Healing", "folded paper to seek medical treatment", "touch the head of a sheep", "catching holy water "This folkloric activity will last for three days. The ritual activities of Zhang Zhongjing, the Sage of Medicine, have been selected as one of the first batch of intangible cultural heritages in Henan Province.

Zhang Zhongjing's tomb was buried in Nanyang (present-day Nanyang City, Henan Province). Zhongjing's tomb is now intact and has become a place of worship.

Zhang Zhongjing became the governor of Changsha, similar to the governor of Hunan Province today. However, he still used his medical skills to relieve people's illnesses. In the feudal era, officials could not just enter people's houses and get close to the people. But without contacting the people, he could not treat them and his own medical skills could not grow. So Zhang Zhongjing thought of a way to choose the first and the fifteenth day of each month, open the Yamen, no political affairs, let the sick people come in, he sat upright in the lobby, one by one, carefully for the masses of diagnosis and treatment. He asked the magistrates to post a notice of peace to tell the people the news. His action created a strong vibration in the area, and the people all applauded him and became even more supportive of Zhang Zhongjing. As time went by, a custom was formed. On the first and fifteenth days of the lunar calendar, people from all over the world would gather in front of his office to seek medical treatment, and some of them even traveled a long way with their luggage. Later, people called the doctors who sat in the pharmacy to treat people "sitting doctors" to commemorate Zhang Zhongjing.

The Eastern Han Dynasty was in tatters, and Zhang Zhongjing could not be an official, and it was difficult for him to return home. So he went to Lingnan to live in seclusion, concentrating on the study of medicine and writing medical books. In the fifteenth year of Jian'an, he finally wrote the epoch-making clinical medical masterpiece "Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever", which consisted of sixteen volumes. It was organized by later generations into two books, "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" and "The Essentials of the Golden Chamber". The Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever systematically summarized the theory of "diagnosis and treatment", and made an important contribution to the development of the etiology and prescription of Chinese medicine in China. Later, it was regarded as the "Ancestor of Prescription Books", and Zhang Zhongjing was also known as the "Master of Prescription".

After writing the book, Zhang Zhongjing continued to specialize in medical research until he passed away. It was only in 285 A.D., after the unification of the Jin Dynasty by Emperor Sima Yan, that Zhang Zhongjing's body was transported back to his hometown for burial, and the Shrine of the Sage of Medicine and the Tomb of Zhongjing were built in Nanyang.

Zhang Zhongjing's medical theories contributed greatly to the development of ancient Chinese medicine and the health of the people, and also had a great influence on Southeast Asian countries. Later generations studied his medical theories, admired his medical skills and virtues, and called him the "Sage of Medicine". In Nanyang, Henan Province, a "Shrine of the Sage of Medicine" was built in his honor. After the liberation of China, the "Shrine of the Sage of Medicine" was renovated and the "Zhang Zhongjing Memorial Hall" was built to commemorate this medical practitioner who laid the foundation for the therapeutic science of Chinese medicine in China.

Folding Zhang Zhongjing and Dumplings

Zhang Zhongjing was an official in Changsha, and when he retired to his hometown, he was in the middle of that winter, when the wind was cold and the snow was flying. At the edge of the White River, Zhang Zhongjing saw many homeless people with yellow faces and skinny clothes, and because of the cold, their ears were frozen and rotted, so his heart was very hard to bear.

When he returned home, many people came to his door to seek medical treatment because Zhang Zhongjing's reputation had long been known all over the world. Zhang Zhongjing responded to all the requests and was busy all day long, but although there were many people coming to the door to seek medical treatment, Zhang Zhongjing was still concerned about those who had frozen and rotted their ears.

After research, he developed a dietary formula to protect against the cold, called "Cold-removing Jiao Er Soup".

He told his disciples in Nanyang Dongguan an open space built a shed, support on the cauldron, for the poor to shed medicine to cure the sick, opened the day is the winter solstice, shed medicine is "dispel cold Jiao ear soup".

When the soup was first made, it was actually made by putting mutton and some medicines to get rid of cold in a pot, and when it was cooked, it was fished out and chopped up, wrapped in a pastry to make it look like an ear, then put it in the pot, and then used the original broth to cook the wrapped pastry with the stuffing again.

After the dough is wrapped, it looks like an ear, and because the effect is to prevent the ear from freezing, so Zhang Zhongjing named it "Jiao Er".

Zhang Zhongjing asked his disciples to give each poor person a bowl of soup and two "Jiao Er", people ate the "Jiao Er" and drank the soup, their bodies were warm, their ears were hot, and no one froze their ears anymore.

When Zhang Zhongjing first served in Changsha, he often treated the common people in his spare time and was very much loved by the public. After his retirement, the people of Changsha sent representatives to visit his hometown every year.

As the saying goes, it is difficult for a doctor to cure his own illness. Zhang Zhongjing was also a human being, not a god.

One year, Zhang Zhongjing was sick, and he himself knew that the lamp oil of life was about to burn dry.

The people from Changsha who came to visit him said that there was a place in Changsha with good feng shui, and they wanted Zhang Zhongjing to settle there after a hundred years, but the people from Nanyang refused, and the two sides quarreled.

Zhang Zhongjing said, "Having eaten the water of Changsha, I will not forget the love of Changsha fathers and mothers; having been born in Nanyang, I will not forget the kindness of my hometown. After I die, you will carry my coffin from Nanyang to Changsha, and bury me wherever the rope breaks."

In the winter of that year, Zhang Zhongjing passed away. The day of his death coincided with the winter solstice.

When the funeral procession came to the place where Zhang Zhongjing had prepared the "Cold Dispelling Jiao Er Tang", the coffin rope suddenly broke.

According to Zhang Zhongjing's instructions, people made a grave, put down a coffin and filled up the grave on the spot. The people of the two places, one by one, one by one, flowed endlessly to make Zhang Zhongjing's grave big, and even built a temple for him in front of the grave, which is the present Shrine of the Sage of Healing.

Zhang Zhongjing died on the winter solstice, and on the winter solstice for everyone to shed "dispel cold Jiao ear soup", in order to commemorate him, from then on everyone in the winter solstice this day to wrap a dumpling to eat, and said, winter solstice this day to eat dumplings, winter ears will not be frozen.

"Few people ate the soup, but the custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice was passed down through the years. The types and shapes of dumplings have been greatly improved, and wherever there are Chinese people, there are dumplings. Dumplings have also become the representative food for family reunion, but Zhang Zhongjing's name is rarely mentioned.

Many of the famous formulas in the Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever still play a great role in modern people's health care, for example, Bai Hu Tang for the treatment of type B irritation, Ephedra-Almond Gypsum and Licorice Tang for the treatment of pneumonia, Rhubarb and Mudanpi Tang for the treatment of acute and chronic appendicitis, Wu Mei Pill for the treatment of biliary roundworms, Bai Du Weng Tang for the treatment of dysentery, Artemisia Artemisiae Tang for the treatment of acute hepatitis Xanthogranulomatous, Baked Licorice Tang for the treatment of arrhythmia, etc. are all commonly used in the clinic. The Soup of Allium cepa in white wine for treating angina pectoris of coronary heart disease are all good prescriptions commonly used in the clinic. The book is also innovative in dosage form, and its variety has greatly exceeded that of the various prescription books before the Han Dynasty. There are soups, pills, dispersions, creams, wine, lotions, baths, fumigants, ear drops, nasal irrigation, nose blowing, enemas, vaginal suppositories, anal suppositories, etc. In addition, there are a variety of dosage forms for the production of medicine, such as the preparation of the medicine, the production of the medicine, the production of the medicine, and the production of the medicine. In addition, the method of preparation of various dosage forms is well documented, and the decoction and serving method of tonics are also explained in detail. Therefore, the later generations called Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever" as "the ancestor of the formula book", and the formulas listed in the book were called "scripture formulas". The Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid has many expositions on treatment methods such as acupuncture, moxibustion, warm ironing, medicinal moxibustion, and ear blowing. In addition, many first aid methods are also collected, such as self-hanging, food poisoning and other treatment is quite distinctive. Among them, the rescue of self-strangulation is very similar to the modern artificial respiration method. These are all valuable information in the motherland medicine.

ZhangZhongJing hometown is located in the middle of the clothing town of RangDong town of ZhangZhai village, southeast of the existing 3 meters high, 0.65 meters wide "medical saint ZhangZhongJing hometown" monument a, in 1993, RangDong town government row the town of zhong jing road east end of 6,600 square meters, as the zhang zhong jing memorial site. The periphery builds 1.5 meters high to see through the landscape retaining wall, the memorial place inside builds ZhangZhongJing commemorative tower and the medical saint palace. Tower for the tooth-shaped four columns, from the bottom up, gradually converge and converge for the top. The top of the tower has two layers of turntable lights, a total tower height of 30 meters. Tower towering 10-meter-high alabaster statue of the Sage of Medicine, the Sage of Medicine right hand holding "Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases", the left hand holding the Chinese medicine Ganoderma lucidum. Set up in front of the statue to worship the saint of medicine platform. Medical Sage Memorial Tower, built under the Medical Sage Palace two layers. A floor for the Palace, covers an area of 300 square meters, set up inside the Medical Sage: from a young age, Maoshan teachings, the study of Chinese herbs, acupuncture gossip traditional treatment, the invention of artificial enema, the invention of artificial respiration and other 20 learning, creation, invention of statues, Palace walls are painted Han painting. Medical Sage Palace second floor, building area of 80 square meters. Inside the medical saint Changsha hall medical statues of five, late in life by the "typhoid fever and miscellaneous diseases" statues of two. A palace wall records the saint's hometown and the saint's Palace introduction. Outside the Palace, three sides built antique-style single-story Zhongjing Hospital. Medical saint statue on the front side, set up a stone ladder, you can pick up the ladder to the top of the memorial tower, stone ladder with stone pillars, stone lions, stone railing composition. Two ladders at the end of the lower neutral "medical saint hometown monument" a monument. Monument height of 2.5 meters, monument built after the incense platform.

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The Sage of Healing is indeed a real person. It is not surprising that there is Hua Tuo in the official history but not the Sage of Medicine, because Hua Tuo was a famous folk doctor and could practise medicine all over the world. Zhang Zhongjing, the Sage of Medicine, was in his official career and could not practise medicine everywhere. At that time, Hua Tuo was more famous than Zhang Zhongjing. Zhang Zhongjing practiced medicine only in the lobby of the government office to treat the people.

After the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing wrote the Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever, the book was dispersed due to war, and Wang Shuhe of the Western Jin Dynasty collected and organized it into the Treatise on Typhoid Fever, and a part of the miscellaneous diseases was found in Wang Shuhe's Pulse Meridian. There is a difference of fifty years between Wang Shuhe and the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing. Wang Shuhe's record should be true.

In our country's history, there is a person, not an empty cave. According to the "History of Chinese Medicine", Zhang Zhongjing, named Ji, was a native of Nanyang County (present-day Nanyang, Henan Province) at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty (150-219), and was rumored to have served as the governor of Changsha. (150-219), rumor has it that he was once the governor of Changsha, and later generations honored Zhang Ji as the "Sage of Medicine". His book is known as the "Book of the Living", and his formula is called the "Scripture Formula". His "Treatise on Typhoid and Miscellaneous Diseases" summarizes more than 300 years of clinical practice during the Han Dynasty, which was a very high-level clinical book during the Han Dynasty, laying the foundation for the development of different disciplines in the later generations. He was the creator of medical prescriptions; he pioneered in the identification and treatment of diseases! He occupies an important position in the history of medicine in China and has made significant contributions to the development of medicine in the motherland.

Zhang Zhongjing's portraitZhang Zhongjing's portrait

The objective conditions for the achievement of the Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases were, in general, the result of the development of clinical medicine. In addition, there is an important historical reason: that is, the Han Dynasty accumulated a wealth of experience in combating pandemics. According to the evidence of 195 years, due to the war, resulting in large and small disasters more than a hundred times. There were many times of pandemic. The so-called pandemic when including malaria, dysentery, typhoid, cholera and other virulent infectious diseases. Zhang Ji lived in Jingchu area is precisely one of the heavy epidemic areas. When he was the governor of Changsha, there was an allusion to "sitting doctor", referring to Zhang Zhongjing. In 217 AD, Cao Zhi wrote in his book "Epidemic Gas" that "every family has the pain of zombies, and every room has the sorrow of weeping, or closing the door and exterminating. Or the whole family was exterminated. Or the whole clan was killed." There is also one of the seven geniuses of Jian'an, Wang Chuan, "seven poems of grief" description: "...... out of nothing to see, white bones cover the plains, the road there is a hungry woman, holding the child abandoned between the grass, Gu heard the sobbing, waving the tears alone do not return, the unknown body where the death of the two can not be complete? Ride a horse and abandon it, do not think to hear this word ......".

Zhang Qi's achievements also have his personal good qualities, he "feel the loss of the past, hurt the death of the helpless", which is the humanitarian medical ethics; he opposed to "surrendered to the spirit of curtsey, look forward to the witch, sue the poor return to the sky, hands by the defeat", which is the scientific attitude; he was not satisfied with He was dissatisfied with the "family skills, the end of the old", highlighting his innovation and creativity; he also criticized "Hua its outside and pining for its inside" style of flimsy. Showed "diligently seek the ancient teachings, the collection of all sides" of the rigorous attitude. This is a great medical doctor's road to success.

Sample Book of Zhang Zhong's Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of the Typhoid Fever

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How is it possible that Zhang Zhongjing, the Saint of Medicine, did not exist? In addition to the official history, there is the oral transmission from generation to generation. There is also the immortalized Treatise on Typhoid and Miscellaneous Diseases, which has been written for thousands of years. Take a close look at the preface of the Treatise on Typhoid and all will be clear. Do you know who the best Chinese medicine practitioner is now? You must answer no, because you are not a member of the circle. It is very normal that Zhang Zhongjing is not recorded in the Records of the Three Kingdoms, because the one who wrote the book did not know Zhang Zhongjing's existence either.

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