Wu Shu, whose courtesy name was Zhengyi, was originally from Danyang, Yanzhou (now part of Jiangsu Province). In 937 (the third year of Tianzuo in the Northern Song Dynasty), she moved to Qi with her father Wenzheng and settled there. Because of his erudition and talent, he was recommended by the state government, tried the Bachelor's Academy, and was awarded the title of Dali judge, which was highly appreciated by Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty. From the second year of Emperor Taizong's Taiping Xingguo to the fifth year of Emperor Zhenzong's Xianping (AD 997-1002), he participated in the editing of "Taiping Yulan" (100 volumes), "Taiping Guangji" (500 volumes), and "Wenyuan Yinghua" (100 volumes) ), "Records of Emperor Taizong" (Volume 80). His numerous personal writings reflect his outstanding talents. He presented books and articles to Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty many times, and was highly praised by Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty. He was promoted to the rank of Yuanwai Lang because of his talent. In addition, Wu Shu also has many works, such as "Shuowen Wuyi" (3 volumes), "Leishi Fu" (100 pieces), "Secret Pavilion Chats" (5 volumes), "Jianghuai Yiren Lu" (3 volumes) (Volume), "The Strange Monk" (Volume 1), "The Legend of Master Lian" (Volume 1), "Collection" (Volume 10). Wu Shu is also good at ink painting and has a profound research on ancient Zhen calligraphy. She also likes archeology and has made great achievements.
[Yuan Shu]
Yuan Shu was born in Dongchang Street, Qizhou Town, Qichun in 1911. He was also known as Xueyi and Junguang, and his pseudonym was Zeng Dazhai. In 1929, he went to Japan to study, specializing in journalism, and was exposed to some progressive ideas. After returning to China, he served as a standing committee member of the "Chinese Left-wing Cultural General Alliance", participated in left-wing literary and artistic activities in Shanghai, and founded "Literary News". In October 1931, Yuan Shu, who was only 20 years old, was introduced by Pan Hannian to join the Communist Party of China and participated in the work of the Chinese Communist Intelligence System. In order to strengthen his protective color and expand intelligence sources, Yuan Shu joined the Qinghong Gang in April 1937, becoming a "Tong" senior brother who could stand on an equal footing with Du Yuesheng and Huang Jinrong. After that, Yuan Shu became an intelligence officer who had certain connections with the Central President Wu Xingya, the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai, and social gangs. He combined multiple identities into one. He skillfully used these multiple identities to widely uncover intelligence sources and reported them to the Chinese Communist Party. The Central Committee provided a lot of valuable information to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which was located in the Soviet area and had relatively little information at the time. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Dai Li personally appointed him as the major general leader of the International Intelligence Group of the Shanghai District of the Military Command. Later, he acted as a "traitor" according to the organizational arrangements, infiltrated the Japanese intelligence agency, and came forward to organize the "Xingya National Founding Alliance". He used this as a sign and secretly A new intelligence base was established and pieces of important strategic intelligence were sent from the heart of the enemy to Yan'an. The important information Yuan Shu obtained from the "Iwai Agency" includes: (1) The Munich activities in the Far East in 1939 when Britain and France attempted to sacrifice China to compromise with Japan. ⑵ On June 13, 1941, there was a report that the war between Germany and the Soviet Union was about to break out. For this, the Central Committee of the Soviet Union expressed its gratitude to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. ⑶After the outbreak of the German-Soviet War, Japan's movement was to advance southward rather than northward, as well as information on Japan-US negotiations, etc. On October 7, 1945, under the arrangement of the party organization, Yuan Shu secretly went to the Liberated Area of ??Northern Jiangsu and re-completed the party membership procedures in 1946, ending his 14 years of underground life. In February 1949, he was transferred to the Central Intelligence Department by Li Kenong. In April 1955, he was arrested and imprisoned in connection with the Pan Hannian case. In 1982, Pan Hannian was rehabilitated. In 1987, Yuan Shu died of illness, and his ashes were placed in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing. Li Shizhen, whose courtesy name was Dongbi and whose nickname was Binhu, was from Qizhou City. Born in 1518 (the thirteenth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty). He came from a medical family, and his father Li Yanwen was a famous doctor at that time. He was a scholar at the age of 14, but he failed in the next three provincial examinations. He was determined to study medicine from his father and become a consultant at the same time. He "has learned from the tombs of the tombs, and consulted hundreds of schools of thought." His medical skills have become increasingly refined, and his patients have "traveled from thousands of miles away to get medicines from the door." For a while. During the Jiajing period, Qizhou was hit by frequent floods, and the plague was prevalent after the disaster. Li Shizhen and his son set up a clinic in Xuanmiao Temple in the east of the city, developed new prescriptions, and cured many victims of the epidemic. Around 1548 (the twenty-seventh year of the Jiajing reign), Li Shizhen cured the strange disease of the son of Zhu Houhuang, the king of Chu (who established his government in Wuchang), and was hired as the chief minister of the palace; soon he was recommended as the judge of the Taiyuan Hospital. He took advantage of the opportunity at the Imperial Hospital to study a large number of medical classics and books collected by the royal family, inspected many rare drug specimens, and gained a lot of useful knowledge.
During long-term medical practice, Li Shizhen deeply felt that the original herbal books were insufficient and contained many errors. So he determined to focus on Materia Medica to benefit future generations; he borrowed the name of Zhu Xi's "Tongjian Gangmu" and named the book "Compendium of Materia Medica".
In 1552 (the 31st year of Jiajing reign), he started writing it, and in 1578 (the 6th year of Wanli reign in the Ming Dynasty), the draft was completed after three revisions, which lasted 27 years. During this period, starting from 1565 (the forty-fourth year of Jiajing reign), he left home for many inspections and traveled to many famous mountains and rivers in Huguang, Jiangxi, and Zhili. He clarified many difficult problems and filled many gaps in medical knowledge.
Compendium of Materia Medica consists of 16 parts, 52 volumes, and approximately 1.9 million words. The whole book contains 1,518 kinds of medicines collected by various herbalists, and 374 kinds of supplementary medicines, totaling 1,892 kinds; it also contains 11,096 ancient pharmacologists and folk prescriptions; more than 1,100 pictures of drug forms are attached at the front of the book. This book systematically summarizes my country's pharmacology and medical experience before the 16th century. Wang Shizhen, a famous writer in the Ming Dynasty, called it "the essence of human nature, the general code of investigation of things, the secret of the emperor, and the important treasure of the subjects". "Sikuquanshu General Catalog" is called "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" and "no other collection of materia medica is better than this", and it is known as the "Great Classic of Oriental Medicine" abroad. "Compendium of Materia Medica" was first published in Nanjing in 1596. It soon spread to Japan, and later to European and American countries. It was translated into more than ten languages ??including French, German, English, Latin and Russian and published abroad. It spread throughout the country. Five continents.
In 1593 (the 21st year of Wanli), Li Shizhen died at the age of 76. After his death, he was named "Wenlin Lang" by the Ming court. In 1951, he was listed as a Celebrity of the Ancient World at the World Peace Council in Vienna; his marble statue stands in the corridor of Moscow University. His cemetery is listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit by the State Council. The former president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guo Moruo, wrote two inscriptions on the cemetery, calling him the "sage of medicine."
Li Shizhen’s works include "A Study of the Eight Meridians of Qijing" and "Binghu Pulsology" handed down to the world; there are also "A Study of Mingmen", "Binghu Medical Cases", "Theory of the Five Internal Organs", " "San Jiao Guest Difficulty", "Tian Puppet Theory", "White Flower Snake Biography", etc. are all lost. Gao Huiyuan (1922--2002) was born in Huangchang, Caohe Town. He comes from a family of traditional Chinese medicine and inherited his family training at a young age. In 1954, he participated in the preparations for the establishment of the National Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In 1958, he studied under Mr. Pu Fuzhou, a Chinese medicine scientist, for 17 years. He once served as senior cadre and deputy director of the treatment room for foreign guests of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has long been the health care director of Premier Zhou Enlai. He is currently deputy director of the Medical Research Office and director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the 305 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army. He is also a visiting professor of the Graduate Department of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Honorary professor, vice president of the All-China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, chairman of the Society of Geriatrics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, executive director of the China Research Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, vice president of the People's Liberation Army Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine, member of the National Science Committee's Traditional Chinese Medicine Professional Group, member of the National Science Committee of the Ministry of Health and " Editorial board member or deputy director of the editorial board of Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Journal of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine. His major works include "Pu Fuzhou's Medical Cases", "Pu Fuzhou's Medical Experience", and "Traditional Chinese Medicine's Syndrome Differentiation of Pediatric Infectious Diseases".