Among the ancient figures, Su Dongpo, a writer in the Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu, a famous writer, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, Yong Zhengdi, Emperor Jiaqing, Emperor Daoguang, Emperor Xuantong, a famous scholar Ji Xiaolan, and a famous poet Ding Peng. All the above are ancient people with myopia.
Su Dongpo, a writer in the Song Dynasty, was also nearsighted. It is said that when he was reading, he was very close to writing. In order to delay his eyesight decline, he developed Qiju tea as a health care product for his eyes.
Before the Southern Song Dynasty, myopia glasses were not invented. At that time, the ancients suffered from myopia and could only rely on some herbs. Du Fu and Wang Anshi both wrote the poem "Old people see flowers like fog", feeling that their eyesight is declining after they get old, which may include both myopia and presbyopia.
Lu You's sentence, "Teenagers spend a lot of time reading, but they often go to bed early when they are old", shows us the regret and sadness of not caring for their eyes when they are young. As far as the ancients were short-sighted, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty wrote a doggerel: "Xiao Jun's eyes are too strange, so I stood beside him and asked who is it?" The sun shines through the window lattice to get marbles, and the moon moves to pick up sticks.
I bruised my nose by looking at the painted wall, and I pinched my eyebrows for locking the book box. There is even more laughter, and blowing lights burns the skin of the lips. " In the poem, I don't know who is making jokes about myopia. I regard the shadow of flowers under the moon as firewood, hurt my nose by watching murals, clip my eyebrows by locking the book box, and burn my lips by blowing lights.
Related historical records:
Myopia in the Qing Dynasty also caused many jokes. Erqi, the minister of the Qianlong dynasty, was the half-brother of E Ertai, the minister of military affairs. He was intelligent and eager to learn since childhood, but he could read quickly, but unfortunately his eyesight was poor and his eyes were highly myopic. Xiao Ting Miscellaneous Records records: One day, E Ertai was soaking his feet at home, and his younger brother Erqi came to talk to him in a hurry.
E Ertai took his foot in his arms and sat cross-legged. Erqi beat E Ertai's foot with a tobacco pot. E Ertai looked at his brother in horror, wondering what he meant.
Erqi said, "What does a big white cat need, and what does a brother treasure mean to him?" What's so rare about a white cat that my brother still holds it in his arms as a treasure? E Ertai was fat in vain, and his white and fat foot was treated as a white cat by his younger brother Erqi, which shows that Erqi's myopia is quite serious. This incident was spread in the circle of friends as a paragraph by the courtiers, and it was a joke for a while.