The story of Zhang Jingzhong.

Zhang Zhongjing, (about 150 ~ 154—— about 2 15 ~ 2 19), Han nationality, from Nanyang, Henan, was a physician at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Born on the 18th day of the first month of 150, died in 2 19 at the age of 69. He was born in a declining bureaucratic family, and his father Zhang was an official in North Korea. Due to the special family conditions, he has been exposed to many classics since he was a child. He saw the story of Bian Que's visit to Qi Huangong from the history books, and he admired Bian Que, which laid the foundation for him to become a generation of famous doctors.

He likes medicine since he was a child. "Read a lot of books and concentrate on Taoism." When he was ten years old, he had read many books, especially books about medicine. He Qing, a fellow countryman, admired his cleverness and specialty. He once said to him, "You will be a good doctor if you use your heart and don't rhyme well" (Biography of He Qing). Later, Zhang Zhongjing really became a good doctor and was called "the sage of medicine and the father of prescription." Of course, this is related to his "using the essence of thinking", but it is mainly the result of his love for the medical profession and his good at "assiduous pursuit of ancient methods and learning from others".

When I was young, I studied medicine in the same county town as Zhang Bozu. After years of hard study and clinical practice, he became an outstanding doctor in the medical history of China.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was in turmoil, fighting for years, "the people abandoned agriculture", and most of the urban granges became wilderness, and the people were displaced and hungry. Plague broke out in various places, especially in Luoyang, Nanyang and Huiji (Shaoxing). "Every family has the pain of zombies, and every family has the sorrow of wailing;" Zhang Zhongjing's family is no exception. Zhang Zhongjing witnessed this sad scene.

According to records, since the first year of Jian 'an (Master Fu AD 196), two-thirds of people died of infectious diseases, including typhoid fever.

Medical sage Zhang Zhongjing (20 photos) was ill, accounting for 70%. "The loss before feeling is hopeless" (Preface to Treatise on Febrile Diseases). Therefore, he worked hard to study medicine and determined to be a doctor who can relieve people's suffering. "In order to cure the diseases of your relatives, to save the poor, to protect your health, and to support your life" (Preface to Treatise on Febrile Diseases).

At that time, there was a man in his family named Zhang Bozu, a famous doctor. Zhang Zhongjing went to worship him as a teacher in order to study medicine. Seeing that he was smart and eager to learn, Zhang Bozu taught him his medical knowledge and skills without reservation, but Zhang Zhongjing actually passed it on. He Qing once praised in the book Xiangyang Fu Zhi: "Zhongjing's skill is better than Bozu's".

There is such a passage in the preface of Treatise on Febrile Diseases: "From the top, we can cure the diseases of our loved ones, from the bottom, we can save the poor and humble, and from this, we can maintain the overall growth and health", which shows Zhongjing's benevolence as a medical saint, and later generations respectfully call him a "medical sage."

Zhang Zhongjing's hometown was in Nieyang, Nanyang County (now Nanyang City, Henan Province), and people spontaneously came to the Nanyang Medical Shrine to commemorate and pay their respects. The folk worship of Zhang Zhongjing in Nanyang has continued since the Han Dynasty. "Paying homage to the medical sage", "folding paper for medical treatment", "touching sheep's head" and "receiving holy water" are the main sacrificial activities of the masses, and this folk activity will last for three days. Zhang Zhongjing's sacrificial activities have been selected as the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in Henan Province.