I, compose the 5000 years of China

Chapter 287 Traveling through time and space, inheriting classics... (subscribe)
"Li Shizhen was born in Qizhou, Wu Province in 1518. His grandfather was a doctor of herbal medicine, and his father, Li Yanwen, was a famous doctor at that time. When she was young, she went to Huangzhou Prefecture with her father to take the exam, and returned as a scholar. Li Shizhen was born in a family of doctors. She loved medicine since she was a child, but was not keen on the imperial examination. Later, she went to Wuchang to take the exam three times, but failed. Therefore, she decided to abandon Confucianism and study medicine. Studied medicine. At the age of 14, he studied medicine with his father, and his reputation as a doctor became more and more..."

Traditional Chinese medicine is declining in this world.

In the previous life, you may be familiar with "Compendium of Materia Medica".

But people in this world don't know much about Compendium of Materia Medica.

but.

it does not matter.

Today's program is to fully introduce Li Shizhen and his Compendium of Materia Medica.

After Chen Fan briefly introduced Li Shizhen, the scene changed and they came to another stage.

This stage is very interesting.

Inside the camera, there is a huge screen that is slowly opened from bottom to top.

This gives people a very mysterious feeling, and it also gives people a feeling that they have come to another time and space.

Whether it's an audience at the scene or a friend in front of the TV.

When they saw the screen pulled out, everyone felt like they had come to the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago.

at this time.

A little doll who played the role of Li Shizhen when she was a child appeared in front of everyone: "I am weak and sick, and I often suffer from eye problems. I know the pain of illness, and a doctor can help the patient. Father, I want to be a doctor."

On the other hand, the actor who played Li Shizhen's father, Li Yanwen, shook his head: "Being a doctor is too difficult. It's like sailing against the current. Study hard and get a reputation."

The little baby pretended not to understand and shook her head: "I don't understand."

Li Yanwen sighed: "Oh, I will understand when I grow up."

Subsequently.

The actor who played Li Shizhen's youth appeared.

At this time, he had passed the examination as a scholar, but his ambition was still to become a doctor, but Li Yanwen still didn't agree.

Until Li Shizhen entered youth, Li Shizhen pleaded with her father for the third time: "Father, I remember that when I was 20 years old, I had a serious illness. It was you who used Scutellaria baicalensis as medicine, so I survived. Father, I beg again, let me do it." A doctor."

Li Yanwen: "You have made up your mind?"

Li Shizhen: "I hope my father will be happy."

The actor who played Li Shizhen knelt down and said: "Reading the medical books of the ancient sages, I admire the sages who tested medicines with their own bodies. When I read Treatise on Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases, I admire Zhang Zhongjing for saving the suffering of the people. When I read the thousand gold prescriptions, I admire the sincerity of the great doctor Sun Simiao."

Li Yanwen: "The great doctor is sincere, what do you mean?"

Li Shizhen: "For the benefit of the people, every great doctor who treats a disease must calm the mind and have no desire or desire."

Li Yanwen: "If someone comes to ask for help, don't ask him to trample on the rich and the poor."

This is the end.

Li Shizhen worked side by side with his father Li Yanwen as a doctor.

Everyone was taken aback by this performance, and then applause poured in from all over the sky.

"The great doctor is sincere and well said."

"If there is a sick person who comes to ask, don't ask him to trample on the rich and the poor... This is the doctor, this is the doctor."

Although the development of Chinese medicine is not very good.

But looking at Li Shizhen and his son, everyone couldn't help admiring the doctors who treated the common people.

The screen continues.

After Li Yanwen promised Li Shizhen to practice medicine, Li Shizhen and his father went to various places to practice medicine together.

at this time.

But found an interesting story.

At this time, there was a conflict between a pharmacist and a pharmacy.

The reason for the conflict was that the pharmacy owner believed that what the pharmacist sold him was not ginseng, but platycodon.

This shot surprised everyone.

How can you not recognize the medicine?

original.

Ginseng and bellflower look very similar.

Most people really can't tell the difference.

Simultaneously.

It's not just because platycodon resembles ginseng, either.

and.

Many herbal scripts do not fully record the characteristics, shapes, etc. of various medicines.

So this caused misunderstandings for others.

Don't think it's just a trivial matter.

Medicine matters.

If this is given to a patient, the condition of the mild one will not improve, and the serious one will directly kill the person.

Although this is a small matter, it gave Li Shizhen a very big idea.

"Father, I want to fix a new cursive script."

But Li Yanwen asked: "Shizhen, do you know how many kinds of medicinal firewood we have in China?"

"There are more than ten thousand kinds."

"In that case, do you still want to fix it?"

"Father, it is precisely because there are so many kinds of medicinal firewood that we should cultivate it. Otherwise, how can people know these medicinal firewood among the tens of thousands of medicinal firewood? Heal the sick and save the sick?"

In fact.

Modern Western medicine often prescribes wrong medicines, not to mention facing tens of thousands of traditional Chinese medicines.

Li Shizhen has known the hardships of ordinary people since she was a child, and has seen many examples of taking the wrong medicine.

Until such a thing happened, it aroused Li Shizhen's belief in cultivating Materia Medica.

In order to make his cursive script more convenient for future generations to read, Li Shizhen divided his herbal script into outlines, namely water, fire, earth, metal and stone, grass, grain, vegetable, fruit, wood, server, insect, There are sixteen parts including scales, shells, poultry, beasts, and humans.There is a brief discussion before each part, and there are several categories under each part. For example, the grass part is divided into eleven categories such as mountain grass, fragrant grass, scorpion grass, poisonous grass, vine grass, aquatic grass, stone grass, moss, and weeds. Ten categories.Each medicine is marked with the source of the first document, and if there is a change in classification or if it is incorporated into a certain medicine, it will be explained by correction; Column commentary... So the name of the book is "Compendium of Materia Medica".

Just a pity.

It is not easy to compile such a masterpiece.

Before the Compendium of Materia Medica started, Li Shizhen's father passed away.

But Li Shizhen did not stop.

He took over his father's job as a doctor, and while working as a doctor, he traveled around the country and learned about herbs in the world.

In such a process.

Li Shizhen came into contact with many herbs that had never been seen before, and at the same time corrected many herbal medicines that were wrongly annotated by the predecessors.

Spring to autumn.

Unknowingly, after 27 years, Li Shizhen finally compiled this wonderful work.

"This perseverance is amazing."

"Nearly 30 years, in our eyes, what we saw just now is just a moment, but in terms of life, nearly 30 years is almost equivalent to a lifetime."

Looking at the Compendium of Materia Medica compiled by Li Shizhen in the camera, everyone was extremely gratified.

just.

Just when everyone thought that this book could be compiled.

but.

Compilation of Materia Medica is difficult, and engraving is even more difficult.

Because the content of the Compendium of Materia Medica is really too large, with a total of 170 million words.

The 170 million words is a novel even in modern times, not to mention at that time.

But in ancient times, there was no Internet, and there was no engraving and printing technology as convenient as it is now.

Faced with more than 170 million characters and tens of thousands of pictures of herbal medicines, all booksellers retreated from the difficulties and did not dare to carve.

"I'll go, it can't be printed out after making it up?"

"Did those publishers grow up eating shit? They dare not print."

"We can't blame those publishers. There are so many words, and this book is not well-known. Who will buy it and publish it at a loss?"

"But it took Li Shizhen 30 years to make it up."

"You can't be kidnapped morally, people have to eat. Just like you, I can't get enough to eat now, you give me 1 yuan, would you like it?"

"I don't want to."

"That's it."

Everyone sighed.

Faced with such difficulties, Li Shizhen, who had always been upright and never asked for help.

In order to spread the Compendium of Materia Medica, he had the cheek to ask the famous minister Wang Shizhen at that time.

I submitted greetings several times, but was rejected and did not meet each other.

But Li Shizhen didn't dare to give up, and handed the Compendium of Materia Medica to the boy. Wang Shizhen didn't see Li Shizhen until the boy showed the Compendium of Materia Medica to Wang Shizhen.However, although Wang Shizhen felt that the Compendium of Materia Medica was a masterpiece, he raised a question.Such a masterpiece with such complicated content, could there be any mistakes in it?
this question.

Li Shizhen came back with the Compendium of Materia Medica to revise it.

This repair, another 10 years have passed.

At this time, Li Shizhen was already in her twilight years.

When Li Shizhen found Wang Shizhen again, Wang Shizhen was moved by Li Shizhen's perseverance and the heart of a doctor who cared for the world.

He happily picked up a pen and wrote a preface for the Compendium of Materia Medica:
"From the tomb scriptures on the top, and the legends below, everything related to it is unprepared. It is like entering the garden of the Golden Valley, and the colors are dazzling; it is like climbing the palace of the Dragon King, and the treasures are full; Also. Extensive but not complicated, detailed and important, comprehensively check the truth, and see the abyss directly. Do you only view it in terms of medical books? The subtlety of reality and reason, the "Tong Dian" of Gewu, the secret book of emperors, and the most important treasure of subjects also."

What Wang Shizhen means is that: from ancient allusions to folk legends, there is nothing related to medicine that cannot be described.It's like entering the garden of the Golden Valley, the varieties are colorful and eye-catching; it's like climbing into the palace and treasure hall, and the treasures can be seen clearly; it's like curling jade carvings, extremely delicate.There are many but not complicated, but there are key points in detail, and the thoroughness of comprehensive verification research can directly see the essence of things.How can this be just a medical book?It is really a grand ceremony to expound the exquisite principles of life and explain everything, the secret record of the emperor, and the treasure of the common people! ! !

As soon as such comments came out, countless viewers stood up one after another.

"Yes, this is no longer a medical book."

"This is the culture that belongs to the common people and belongs to our China."

Although many people may not have heard of the Compendium of Materia Medica.

Although there may be more people, have not seen it.

But it's okay.

Our ancestors, our ancestors, the reason why they were able to pass on to us is because of a sincere great doctor like Li Shizhen.

just.

Just when Wang Shizhen introduced the largest bookseller in Jinling to publish "Compendium of Materia Medica".

Li Shizhen was seriously ill and was about to leave.

"Has the Compendium of Materia Medica come out?"

"Father, the Jinling bookseller said that after he returned, he would have workers work day and night to publish "Compendium of Materia Medica."

"Well, maybe I won't see this day."

The actor who played Li Shizhen was extremely lonely for a while.

"Brothers, what, did Li Shizhen see the day when her Compendium of Materia Medica was written?"

"Maybe not."

In the live broadcast room, countless people have already boiled up.

His lifelong wish was for this book, but he never saw the day when it would be finished until he died.

What a pity.

just.

at this time.

Originally, everyone thought that Chen Fan standing on the stage was just an audience, a commentator, and a host who led everyone into the story.

At this moment, Chen Fan suddenly came to Li Shizhen.

"How is this going?"

"How did Teacher Chen Fan get to Li Shizhen's place?"

"Could it be... is this time travel to 400 years ago?"

Some people couldn't believe it.

But at this time, Chen Fan bowed deeply to Li Shizhen, and said, "Chen Fan, the junior, has already seen the printed "Compendium of Materia Medica"."

Li Shizhen was a little strange: "You are?"

Chen Fan respectfully introduced himself: "The younger generation is a scholar from more than 400 years ago. This trip is to visit Mr. Li Shizhen."

Li Jianmu, Li Shizhen's son, said at this time: "How can I prove my origin with one step?"

Chen Fan said with a smile: "Dare to ask if the "Compendium of Materia Medica" has not yet been published?"

Li Jianmu replied: "It has not yet been published."

Chen Fan said: "It is reasonable to say that the world does not know the contents of the Compendium of Materia Medica."

Li Jianmu replied again: "Yes."

Chen Fan suddenly said: "The Compendium of Materia Medica has 52 volumes, nearly 190 million words. It records 890 kinds of medicines, 96 prescriptions, and [-] pictures of medicines." frame."

This said, everyone was shocked.

Li Jianmu reported to his father Li Shizhen: "Father, does he really come from more than 400 years later?"

Li Shizhen, who knew his destiny, looked at Chen Fan, as if he was not surprised at all: "There are all kinds of wonders in the world. I believe this gentleman came from more than 400 years later."

Chen Fan bowed to Li Shizhen again: "Sir, your Compendium of Materia Medica will be regarded as a pharmacopoeia in later generations, sir, would you like to see the published Compendium of Materia Medica?"

Li Shizhen said excitedly: "This is my lifelong wish, of course I want to."

"I'll show you the way, please."

walk aside.

Chen Fan said on the way to Zangshu Pavilion: "Mr. Li Shizhen, the edition that Mr. Hu Chenglong published for you is called the Jinling edition in later generations. But since then, the Compendium of Materia Medica has undergone many editions, and your book has also spread to Japan. , the West, spread to the whole world. Later, a biologist named Darwin in the West said that he called your "Compendium of Materia Medica" an encyclopedia of ancient China."

Done.

The huge screen in front opened again, and Chen Fan brought Li Shizhen and his sons to the Library Pavilion.

When Li Shizhen saw the Compendium of Materia Medica that he compiled appeared in front of his eyes, Li Shizhen looked at the work with great excitement, read it carefully, and then closed the book very carefully.

Until the end, he and his son slowly walked out of the Library Pavilion, and said loudly: "Medical books in the world benefit the world, and the world works together, and it will last forever."

The screen turns again.

In the camera, it appears that countless contemporary Chinese physicians are constantly referring to "Compendium of Materia Medica" when they are learning to treat diseases.

the other side.

Professor Liu Qiang from the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine commented on the sidelines: "Chinese medical classics have been published in eleven editions. On the basis of inheriting the "Compendium of Materia Medica", we have revised and updated it again and again. This is exactly what Mr. Li Shizhen It is said that the world's medical books benefit the world, and the world will practice together, and it will be forever new from generation to generation."

If it can be summed up in two words, it is inheritance.

The Chinese nation has lasted for thousands of years only through inheritance.

(End of this chapter)