The word "Xinglin" is a common vocabulary in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, and doctors often pretend to be "Xinglin people". Xinglin is the dictionary of Dong Feng, a Taoist priest from Fujian in the late Han Dynasty.
Dong Feng, whose name is Yi Jun, was born in Houguan (now Fuzhou), Fujian. His medical skills were superb, and he was as famous as Warren and Zhang Zhongjing at that time, and was known as the "Jian 'an Three Magical Doctors". According to "Biography of Stone Evil in the History of the Three Kingdoms", the stone evil in the secretariat of Jiaozhou was terminally ill for three days. Dong Feng, the immortal, put a homemade pill into the mouth of the thorn officer, poured some water into it, and shook it away by holding his head. After eating it, the stunned stabbing officer magically opened his eyes and could move his hands and feet. "Color gradually recover, can sit up for half a day, and can speak for four days, back to normal. "There are similar records in" Fairy Biography ",which shows that Dong Feng has a good medical skill.
Among many legendary stories about Dong Feng, the most influential one is the story of his practicing medicine in Lushan Mountain. According to Volume 10 of Legend of Immortals, "Jun lives in a deep mountain, treats people and things, and makes people seriously ill without taking money or things. For ten years, he planted five apricots, only one of which counted more than 100,000, turning him into a forest ... "Dong Feng once lived in seclusion at the southern foot of Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi Province for a long time and was enthusiastic about treating diseases for the villagers. He never asks for remuneration when he practices medicine. Whenever he cured a seriously ill patient, he asked the patient to plant five apricot trees on the hillside. If you are optimistic about minor illnesses, you only need to plant an apricot tree. As a result, patients from the four townships came to seek treatment, and Dong Feng paid for apricot planting. A few years later, there were as many apricot trees in Lushan area as100000. When the apricots are ripe, Dong Feng sells them as food to help the poor and hungry people in Lushan. In a year's time, more than 20,000 people were rescued. It is precisely because of Dong Feng's noble character of practicing medicine and saving the world that he has won the universal admiration of the people. After Dong Feng came out of the mountain, people set up an altar in Xinglin to worship this kind Taoist priest. Later, people built apricot altars, real altars and fairy altars in Dong Feng's seclusion to commemorate Dong Feng. In this way, the word Xinglin gradually became a special term for doctors. People like to praise a great doctor like Tong Feng with words like "Xinglin is warm in spring" and "Xinglin is famous".