According to documents, Xinglin Jing tells the story of Dong Feng at the end of Han Dynasty. "Taiping Guang Ji Xian Chuan" wrote:
"Dong Feng, jun, hou officer person also. When Wu Xian came to power, ... he lived in the mountains and didn't farm. He treated people every day without taking money. Those who recovered from a serious illness planted five apricots and one light. Over the years, there are 10 million plants, and they have become forests. It is to let hundreds of birds and beasts in the mountains play under it, and soldiers don't grow grass, which is often like treating a disease. After the apricots were ripe, they made a straw shed in the forest. The common people said, "You don't have to offer apricots. Put a can of grain in the shed and get an apricot yourself. "People often buy less food and take more apricots, but the tigers in the forest roared out and drove them away. Frightened, they hurriedly carried the apricots away and capsized on the roadside, so that they could measure the apricots at home, just like the number of apricots in the valley. Or if someone steals apricots, the tiger will chase them home and bite them to death. The family knew that they had stolen apricots, but they returned them, kowtowing and thanking them, but they made them alive. Every year, apricot trees are harvested and the poor get relief. Those who can't travel are in their twenties. ..... The world is going for more than three hundred years, and Yan is like thirty people. "
Dong Feng was praised for his good deeds, and later called it Xinglin, a traditional Chinese medicine, from which his canon almost originated.
Hanging pot helps the world:
The theory of saving the world by hanging pots praises ancient doctors for saving lives.
"The Legend of Han Dynasty" and "The Legend of Fei Changfang" record:
"Fei Changfang, Runa (now southwest of Shangcai, Henan), was a city official. There is an old man who sells medicine in the city. He hangs a pot on the boss's head. When he gets to the city, he jumps into the pot. People in the city can't see it, but it's different when he sees it upstairs in a long house. I went to worship again, so I went to the wine chest. Weng knew that the meaning of Changfang was also God, and said: My son can come back tomorrow, and Changfang will return to Weng one day, and Weng is in the pot with him. Only when I saw Yutang Yan Li, I thought the wine was sweet and delicious, and I drank it. Weng made a promise not to listen to others, so he went to Hou Changfang and said, I am a fairy, and I am responsible for seeing you. Can I go with you after this? There was no wine downstairs, so I said goodbye to you ... Changfang wanted to ask for directions and followed him into the mountain. Uncle Weng said, "I can teach you, so I can cure all diseases." "
Legend has it that there is a pot Weng in the world (about the 2nd century AD). I don't know its name, so it's called Gong Hu. "Said, calendar Yang people, selling medicine in the city. No price, no treatment. The speaker said: Take this medicine, and you will vomit. If you get well one day, nothing will work. Collect tens of thousands of dollars a day and distribute them to the poor and hungry people in the city. From this point of view, Hu Weng is a hermit doctor with good medical skills and charity. Because it often hangs a pot as a medical symbol in the medical department, it is called a pot Weng, and there are many myths and legends in folklore. Hu Weng once taught Fei Changfang medicine. Although this record is legendary, if we uncover the shroud of Gong Hu and Fei Changfang, it is not difficult to know that they were famous doctors in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Gong Hu's deeds are widely circulated, and almost all physicians in the past dynasties celebrated his medical practice with "the joy of hanging a pot", or hung a gourd in the clinic as a symbol of medical practice. Today, many pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies are still in use.
The old wine thought that "pot" was homophonic, and the suspicion came from "Hu" and "Xuan". Later, pharmacies used gourd as a cover, and pharmaceutical companies also used gourd as a trademark pattern. There was a saying that "I don't know what medicine is sold in gourd".
Doctors are kind-hearted and help all sentient beings with medical skills, which is known to the world, and there is a saying that hanging pots helps the world. Its canon is almost derived from this.
There is a strange legend in the translation of the Book of Southern Han Dynasty: there was a man named Fei Changfang in the Eastern Han Dynasty. One day, while drinking in a restaurant, he happened to see an old man selling medicine in the street, hanging a gourd to sell pills and powder. After selling for a while, the pedestrians in the street gradually dispersed and the old man quietly got into the gourd.
Fei Changfang saw clearly that the old man was by no means an idle man. He bought wine and meat and paid a respectful visit to the old man. Knowing his purpose, the old man led him into the gourd. When I opened my eyes, I saw the architecture painted by Zhu Lan, which was magnificent and colorful, just like the Qiongge in the fairy mountain. Later, Fei Changfang learned magic from the old man for more than ten days. Before leaving, the old man gave him a bamboo pole and rode like a fly.
When he returned to his hometown, his family thought he was dead. It turns out that more than ten years have passed. From then on, it took a long time to cure all diseases, drive away the plague and bring people back to life.
This is just a myth and legend, but it puts on a "mysterious coat" for practitioners. Later, in order to commemorate the legendary doctor, folk doctors hung a gourd at the entrance of the drugstore as a sign of practicing medicine. Nowadays, although the "hanging pot" of traditional Chinese medicine is rare, the word "hanging pot" has always been retained.