Spring Festival couplets of a famous old Chinese medicine practitioner, who also opened a Chinese medicine shop in Xiangxiang, Hunan in the late Qing Dynasty. This series has fully demonstrated the noble medical ethics and commendable benevolence of China ancient medicine.
In the past, shops in all walks of life also had their own different couplets to convey their business philosophy to their guests. For example, the barber shop wrote that "the new business started from scratch and the old world was razed with one hand".
The couplet of the pharmacy is "China has relatives everywhere, no matter where; When the spring breeze comes, there are flowers everywhere, but they smell like musk and wood. "The couplet of the hospital is' I wish everyone in the world is free from disease, even if the medicine is on the counter'. How correct the concept is.
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Whether in ancient times or in modern times, doctors are a respected profession. They saved lives and fought death, leaving many touching stories, so there is a saying that "doctors are the hearts of parents". There have been many people in history who can be called imperial doctors, such as Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing and Sun Simiao. However, Ye in Qing Dynasty was not simple, and history books praised him for "inheriting ancient and modern medical skills".
Ye was born in a family that has been practicing medicine for generations. His grandfather and father are both famous local doctors. Even so, he didn't leave him a legacy, and life is still tight. Due to the influence of family environment, Ye Shi Tian studied medicine with his father since childhood. Later, in order to make a living, he walked the rivers and lakes, treated people and asked people who were better than himself.
One winter, Ye passed a ruined temple and met a beggar in rags in front of the door. Due to the unusually cold weather and heavy snow, the beggar was almost frozen stiff. Ye Shi Tian took the beggar back to the temple and took off his coat to keep him warm. It took the beggar a long time to recover his temperature slightly. When he saw the beggar open his eyes, Ye felt gratified and showed a sincere smile.
Through chatting, I learned that this beggar is an orphan, who has a serious leg disease and basically loses his ability to work. He can only make a living by begging. Ye Shi Tian intended to treat him, but after diagnosis, he found himself powerless, not because of his poor medical skills, but because it took too long, even if Hua Tuo was near-re-embodiment. Ye, a kind-hearted man, could not bear to let him continue begging and decided to take the beggar home.
Beggars are just inconvenient to walk, but their brains are flexible. In order to repay Ye's kindness and help him do something within his power, Ye will teach beggars simple medical skills when he is not too busy. A few years later, the beggar can take medicine alone and diagnose the patient, but he is not as cheerful as before. It turned out that he missed his hometown. When Ye learned about it, he gave him some money and asked someone to send him back to his hometown safely.
At Ye's suggestion, the beggar opened a drugstore in his hometown and became a famous doctor nearby. He never dared to forget the words of benefactor Ye before he left: being a man is more important than doing things, and don't lose your kindness because of greed. To this end, the doctor personally wrote a pair of couplets: I hope that everyone in the world will not get sick, and would rather put the medicine on the shelf and produce dust!
The first part of the book "I wish there were no diseases in the world" shows that doctors want everyone to be safe all their lives and never get sick, while the second part of the book "I'd rather put medicine on the shelf to produce dust" is more classic and is also the heartfelt words of doctors.