The medical ethics story of Cao Xueqin, a Buddhist in Western Qin Dynasty
"The Red Chamber" is hot, and Cao Gong is full of anger. I don't know whether it is happy or sad. However, hundreds of people who read The Red Chamber have a hundred solutions, and there is no difference. Nothing more than interest. Now I want to extract some traces left by Cao Gong in Beijing, right and wrong. Welcome to discuss.
After Cao Xueqin moved to Xishan, he made extensive contact with the lower classes, especially the helpless disabled. Qin Xue is very sympathetic to their difficulties, especially after their illness, they have no money for treatment, which increases their pain. Xueqin, in order to save helpless patients.
Pain, often go up the mountain to collect medicine for patients to reduce the burden.
There was once a legend about Cao Xueqin's way of treating the poor in Xiangshan area. The Legend of Xiangshan contains the Medical Ethics of Mr. Qin Pu edited by Mr. Zhang He. This aspect is also recorded in Mr. Cui's Origin of Snow Qin. The Legend of Qing Palace also contains Zhang's With His Bare Hands, which records Cao Xueqin's treatment of Xiangshan people.
I once visited Mr. Kong Xiangze, and Mr. Kong said: In the early 1970s, Mr. Wu Enyu and I went to Baijiatuan.
Q, I once heard a villager say that Qian Shan pointed out that there was a doctor in the flag of Xiangshan who often came to see the poor for free. Every time he comes, he temporarily borrows a desk and chair from an empty temple in the southern mountain root to see a doctor. Later, the doctor moved to Qiaoxi, and it was much more convenient for people with families to see a doctor. Mr. Shu Chengxun once told Kong Lao that there are many pharmacies in indigo plant, and Qin Xue often goes to these pharmacies to get medicines or prescribe medicines for patients. Shu Lao remembered the names of these pharmacies one by one and told Kong Lao. Unfortunately, Kong Lao didn't write them down at that time.
Kong Lao also said: Xueqin has cured many people's diseases because of her superb medical skills. Some rich people often buy something for Xue Qin after their illness is cured, in return for her kindness in treating the disease. Qin Xue often tells these people, don't buy me anything, just keep your money. Once the patient can't afford to buy medicine, I'll let him find you and you will give him his medicine. Isn't this able to help more people relieve their pain? In this way, Xueqin cured many stubborn diseases for many poor people, and people praised Xueqin's brilliant medical skills and noble medical ethics.
It doesn't seem difficult for a person to do something good. It is rare to do good deeds forever. Qin Xue treated the Xishan people for free, and even collected herbs for the poor people. Qin Xue's care for the Xishan people is the best proof, and the people's word of mouth is the best proof.
The story of Cao Xueqin and Baijiatuan
In my impression, I always thought that Cao Xueqin lived in Jianrui Camp in Xiangshan. I didn't know that Qin Xue spent the last five years of his old age in Baijiatuan.
Looking up relevant information, Xue Qin's friend Dunmin accurately recorded in the Record of Life in Bottle Lake Zhai that it was the spring of the 23rd year of Qianlong, namely 1758 * * *, and Xue Qin moved to Baijiatuan, as evidenced by the original note: "The number of Xue Qin Spring Garden * * * has been granted and is to be announced. After this article, Dunmin went to Baijiatuan twice to ask Xueqin to identify calligraphy and painting. Unfortunately, Xueqin is not at home. In the postscript, Dunmin tells the general story of Xueqin's new house in Baijiatuan. For readers' reference, the quotations are as follows: "There is a stream blocking the road, looking across the bank, there are four adobe houses, which are inclined to the southwest, with stones as walls and rafters as broken branches, and the walls are uneven and the households are incomplete. The courtyard is neat, the hedges are woven into brocade, and vines are planted on the vines ... There is the joy of squatting in the alley and the ecstasy of being fascinated by flowers. You can walk north along the stream and cross the stone bridge. "
There are few biographical materials left by Qin Xue. Dunmin's Record of Living in a Bottle Lake describes the time when Cao Xueqin moved to Baijiatuan and some words and deeds of Qin Xue, which is extremely important. So why did Xueqin migrate to Baijiatuan? Since the fifteenth year of Qianlong, Xueqin bid farewell to religious studies and moved to the western suburbs. After several migrations, she finally moved from Xiangshan to Baijiatuan. Some people have analyzed that there are economic reasons, reasons for avoiding "public opinion", reasons for the collapse of houses, and reasons for "Manchu territory". During the twenty-three years of Qianlong, it was stipulated that the slaves of Banners could open an account, that is, the flag of * * * * was allowed. There were also claims that Qin Xue built a house and Baijiatuan was related to the Prince of Yi. In my opinion, apart from economic reasons, Qin Xue wants to find an ideal place to write and repair books to avoid noise.
Only those who personally visit Baijiatuan can appreciate how beautiful Baijiatuan, a small village near the foot of the western hills, has beautiful green hills and rich vegetation. Just as Dunmin and Zhang Yiquan said in their poems, "Looking at the Western Hills at sunset", "The western suburbs are secluded", "The mountains and rivers are painted outside" and "The people in the western suburbs are lonely" can prove that Xueqin lives nearby. In the past, in order to write a book, Xueqin often paced near the small stone bridge in the west of the village and carefully thought about the plot in the book ... Only Xiaoshiqiao remembered the figure of Xueqin pacing and meditating.
The story of Cao Xueqin and Guangquan Temple
Guangquan Temple in Xiangshan is the only place where Cao Xueqin and his good friend Zhang Yiquan have been recorded exactly. They once left poems to sing together. Unfortunately, Mr. Qin Xue's poems have not been handed down, and only Mr. Yiquan recorded them according to the original rhyme of The Poems of Qin Xue for readers. The quotation is as follows:
"Your poem has been bad to sing, and today's breaking brake is so exciting. The monument secretly knows that it contains today's rain, and the wall is expensive to make up the clouds.
Cicadas call each other in the distance, and flies sing empty kitchens to find themselves near. Lonely people in the western suburbs go to Korea, who will drag the stick and smoke forest? "
My friend Xiao Changjiang visited this temple in 1960s and talked with him. He said that only one ancient well remained in this temple. The mood of visiting the ancient temple arises spontaneously, and Xiao Lao is willing to be a guide.
Copywriting must be done in advance, and it is essential to consult historical records. Check 0979 * * The first episode of A Dream of Red Mansions published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House * * * 65438+, and there is a fragment written by Mr. Xu Gongshi, "Who is dragging a stick through the smoke forest-Cao Xueqin and Zhang Yiquan in the western suburbs of Beijing". By studying Mr. Zhang Yiquan's poems and those written by friends who are related to Mr. Zhang's family, Mr. Xu found a good friend of his time, who was the governor of Jiangsu in the 31st year of Kangxi, and wrote poems about the Guangquan Temple in Xishan, with the same rhyme, and speculated that this abandoned temple near the water source-Guangquan Temple. Unfortunately, Mr. Xu has never been to Guangquan Temple.
Walking with Xiao Lao to the water source, bypassing a small hillside, the road is very narrow, along the narrow path, sometimes steep and sometimes slow, and sometimes you need to climb some small trees or shrubs along the road. I realized what Mr. Zhang Yiquan said in his poem: "Drag the staff through the smoke forest" and soon arrived at Guangquan Temple. The forest in this place is quiet and inaccessible. The abandoned Guangquan Temple has no building components, only an ancient well, which is the only relic of Guangquan Temple. The ancient well located halfway up the mountain is deep. Tianfu Guangji once recorded the ancient well of Guangquan Temple, saying that its water quality is sweet and suitable for making tea. Suddenly I found some words on the cover of the ancient well, but it was very old and the handwriting was a little fuzzy. I carefully identified "Guangquan Gujing" as a seal script, and only the words "Hua" and "Rebuild" could be identified in the font on the left. Even so, it is very important for us. At least, the location of Guangquan Ancient Temple that we are searching for is very accurate. * * After consulting relevant information, I learned that Guangquan.
Looking back, when Qin Xue and his friends strolled to the abandoned temples, the abandoned temples they saw at that time, although dilapidated, were not as dilapidated as what Qin Xue and Quan Yi saw now: the scattered abandoned temples were devastated, naturally linked with their own life experiences, and they could not help sighing about the joys and sorrows of the world. Therefore, they wrote poems to describe it.
Following in the footsteps of Mr. Xueqin and his friends, I recall the two hundred years that Xueqin and Yiquan visited the ancient temple. At this time, I deeply felt it.
There are thousands of stories about Qin Xue. Only when she personally experienced the life of "oil with fire, flowers with brocade" and twice lived the life of "the whole family eating porridge and drinking on credit" can she write a well-known and world-renowned Dream of Red Mansions, which is admired by future generations.