A LiShiZhen for sequence

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        Seen the movie LiShiZhen "audience, be sure to ZhaoDan famous actor playing the face thin, not power, with all my heart, studied the writing skill necessary glorious image impressive.

        LiShiZhen, is China's Ming dynasty famous herbalism home, hubei QiChun people. Although LiShiZhen before death, and can't see the compendium of materia medica publication, but there was no doubt that he wrote the great Chinese materia medica is a 16th century science and technology history one of the most important achievement, even famous British biologist Mr Darwin from "compendium of materia medica" in draw natural history knowledge, praise it as "Chinese ancient encyclopedia". Today, many textbooks LiShiZhen called not only the ancient Chinese materia medica home, also believe that he is a great natural historian, exegesis of experts.

        LiShiZhen history carries his origin, his grandfather was a "LingYi", the so-called "LingYi" is go party doctor, doctor has no fixed place, his father LiYueChi is also a doctor, at a local quite a reputation. So LiShiZhen from childhood are exposed to, get good medical edification, plus from his youth was a weak and sickly, to medical knowledge more interested, review the medical books. In the "compendium of materia medica > the original sequence" in describing his elder read books, "if enjoy sugarcane molasses", meaning is like eating sugar cane nibble at the same time. For writing "compendium of materia medica", LiShiZhen has read more than eight hundred kinds of books, nearly volumes. Scholars in qing dynasty GuJingXing in the LiShiZhen preach ", also praise him "reading ten years, don't leave home court".

        In fact, LiShiZhen compilation compendium of materia medica work is not smooth. On the one hand because of the ancient Chinese materia medica work, from the pre-qin and han dynasties "shennong this the", to jin tao hongjing... "herbal classic variorum", the tang dynasty of the new repair of materia medica ", the northern song dynasty "card kind of materia medica", etc., the herbalism works was handed down from ancient times, records classes of drugs to the Ming dynasty has reached more than one thousand five hundred kinds, but many traditional Chinese medicine name not unified, some Chinese medicine performance is also a lack of a field investigation research, LiShiZhen very want to correct Chinese materia medica in the problem, but at the time of the production conditions very difficult. On the other hand, LiShiZhen after all just LingYi later, financial resources are limited, rely on the power of the individual, the lack of government financial aid, work nature so hard. Fortunately, LiShiZhen perseverance, after nearly 30 years of efforts, overcome various difficulties, travel in the tens of thousands, and finally in the 60 complete compendium of materia medica of the draft.

        In the book, LiShiZhen a great contribution to Chinese materia medica, is to a large number of Chinese materia medica literature on the field research, the true. Such as traditional Chinese medicine armadillo scale, it is to use mammals pangolin scales processing, under the effect of adjusting milk, gynecology medicine, are commonly used to treat amenorrhea, postpartum no card such as milk. Pangolin scales in ancient books in a very nice-sounding name, called "pangolin". Tao hongjing... in the herbal classic variorum "in records it can amphibious: during the day to climb to shore, open scute feign death and draw large group of ants climb into its nail plate inside, and then immediately closed scute submerged in water drive armour for the ants will drown so that it in the water swallowed. In order to confirm tao hongjing... saying, LiShiZhen himself up the hill in a hunter's help, catch a pangolin scales, from its stomach cutting out many ants, confirmed pangolin scales is really eating ants, tao hongjing... this is right. However, through the observation, he found pangolin scales food ant, it is to use the tongue lick food, "often spit tongue induced ant food", not draw ant into armour, launching swallowed, and that tao hongjing... wrong again. LiShiZhen of these research process are detailed records in the compendium of materia medica "book, very detailed real.

        Today we LiShiZhen evaluation and the compendium of materia medica ", should not forget a person, this is already mentioned the "compendium of materia medica > the original sequence" of the author, wang shizhen. Wang shizhen and LiShiZhen almost lived at the same time, has made nanjing of ministry of penalty of the office, he plead illness in one officer, privacy in his hometown taicang jiangsu. In the 60 LiShiZhen into book, from a great distance from hubei QiChun carrying dozens of roll book, to jiangsu taicang ploy sounds, I would like to give wang shizhen explosive sequence.

        Many people can not help but ask, why a LiShiZhen for sequence? We here have to learn about the history of wang shizhen. Wang shizhen is Ming dynasty famous writer, historian, in his poetry famous in the world, is the Ming dynasty "seven" leader, known as the "memories jiangnan" word: "soft green pole add plum rain, light giant resistance to lotus root silk wind", etc., are all his representative works, win universal praise. Wang shizhen as the social celebrities, the literary world leader, among intellectuals have considerable appeal. LiShiZhen pains the into the "compendium of materia medica", of course, hope to get recognized by the society, if wang shizhen can personally for works sequence, a greater influence on the cans be imagined. And in fact, LiShiZhen is right, wang shizhen himself for works sequence, for later compendium of materia medica get court approval press, which has played a positive role. A LiShiZhen for sequence move, not only touched wang shizhen, and a few days contact down, and carefully looked at the book later, wang shizhen think compendium of materia medica really significant, gladly thought for works sequence. In the preface to the book of high praise (materia medica literature a clear and organized, rich in content, as "the dragon king", "curling jade's" general.

        LiShiZhen for "compendium of materia medica" publication is famous in the world, "compendium of materia medica" by wang shizhen of sequence more add a extraordinary splendour, both can be said to be bring out the best in each other. A LiShiZhen for sequence story, also become the medical history a much-told story.