Hanging Hus to Help the World
Legend has it that there was a Hugong (around the 2nd century AD). His name is not known, so he was called Hugong. "It is said that Hu Gong Xie Yuan, a native of Liyang, sells medicine in the market. The price is the same, and all diseases will be cured. The speaker said: If you take this medicine, you will vomit something, and it will be cured on a certain day. Everything will be cured. Collect money every day Tens of thousands of people were given to the poor, hungry and cold people in the city." From this point of view, Hu Weng is a hermit doctor who possesses medical skills and is willing to do good. Because a pot is often hung as a medical sign in the place where medicines are provided for diagnosis and treatment, he is called the Pot Man. There are many myths and stories about him in folklore. Hu Weng once taught medical skills to Fei Changfang. Although the records refer to legends, if you take off the cloak of myth, it is not difficult to know that Hu Gong and Fei Changfang were famous doctors in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The deeds of Hu Gong are widely spread. Doctors in the past dynasties almost all used the "Happiness of Hanging Pot" as a congratulation when practicing medicine, or hung gourds in the clinic as a sign of medicine. Today, many pharmacies, pharmaceutical factories, etc. still use this method. .
Laojiu believes that "pot" is suspected to be derived from "gourd" and "hu" because they have the same pronunciation. In later generations, some pharmacies used gourds as their guise, and some pharmaceutical factories used gourds as their trademarks. There was also a saying that "you don't know what kind of medicine is sold in the gourds."
Doctors are benevolent and use their medical skills to help all living beings. People in the world call them "Xuan Hu" to help the world. Its classic origin comes from this.
Rejuvenation with a wonderful hand
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Bian Que, the genius doctor of Qi State, passed by Guo State and heard that Prince Guo had died suddenly. He asked the concubine about the prince's symptoms and thought that Prince Guo could be saved by faking his death. He asked his disciple Ziyang to grind the needles and put a few needles on the prince's acupuncture points, and the prince woke up. After being adjusted with decoction and medicine, he fully recovered after 20 days. Bian Que won the title of "Miracle Rejuvenation Hand".
The Rebirth of Hua Tuo
Among the Chinese people in the world, there is a common custom. When people express their heartfelt thanks to a doctor who saved lives and healed the wounded, they often give it to the doctor. Eight words: Hua Tuo is reincarnated and rejuvenated with wonderful skills. In other words, people regard Hua Tuo as a synonym for a miracle doctor in their minds. Hua Tuo was a folk doctor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. He used his superb medical skills to relieve the pain of patients and was very famous at the time. However, there were many famous doctors in ancient China. Why did later generations say that Hua Tuo was reincarnated when they praised doctors for their superb medical skills? What are the miraculous qualities of Hua Tuo’s medical skills? Why did he become a miracle doctor in the minds of future generations?
Let’s briefly introduce Hua Tuo. There is a biography of Hua Tuo in the official history, that is, Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms" and Fan Ye's "Book of the Later Han" both have "Hua Tuo Biography". According to historical records, Hua Tuo was named Yuanhua and his name was 旉. He was a native of Pei State. This Qiao was the Qiao County of Pei State at that time. The Qiao County of the Eastern Han Dynasty mainly included today's Bozhou in Anhui and a small part of Yongcheng in Henan. However, there are no records about Hua Tuo's family history. We don’t know what kind of family Hua Tuo’s family is, nor do we know who Hua Tuo learned medicine from. There is no record. This can only explain one problem, that is, Hua Tuo's social status was very low at that time. Due to his low social status, there is no record of his life experience and his inheritance. Moreover, we can also see from the two biographies of official history that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" included him in the "Biography of Fang Shu", and "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" included him in the "Biography of Fang Shu". What do Fang Ji and Fang Shu mean? In ancient China, people who engaged in medicine, astronomy, astrology, and divination were called alchemists, or alchemists. This is the basic status of Hua Tuo as known from the only remaining information we have now.
In the era when Hua Tuo lived, the social status of doctors was low. In addition, that era was from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Three Kingdoms in Chinese history. This was a time when princes were separatist and warlords were fighting. Therefore, there are very few records about Hua Tuo in history books. There is no record of his life experience, no record of his teacher-student relationship, and no medical prescriptions passed down to later generations. There are only some short stories about his cure of diseases left in the history books, so later generations We can only find the answer to the popular saying that "Hua Tuo is reincarnated and rejuvenated with a wonderful hand" from the short stories of Hua Tuo curing diseases.
Why do we always like to use Hua Tuo as a nickname for miracle doctors? Let’s talk about the first aspect first. He predicts illness like a god and predicts life and death. This is the most miraculous aspect of Hua Tuo.