JingBian ancient medicine and health care in the picture

Ding Shudong Shandong zhucheng center for mental health

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        Portrait JingBian picture is used to explain the ideological content from a buddhist scriptures. Dunhuang JingBian painting rich in content, forms, in addition to the content of the buddhist scriptures, a large number of social life contents in JingBian painting vivid embodiment. Many JingBian painting skill, can be called art treasures. These frescoes by JingBian story picture, reflect the social from all walks of life people in production and life of modern factors such as happiness, anger, sorrow, fear of change, and the birth, aging, illness, and death of the life phenomenon, vivid, rich.

        "Medical image" means "JingBian painting" reflects the ancient working people's struggle with the disease in production and life of visual expression methods. JingBian paintings in dunhuang murals "image" of medicine, have nearly a picture, including 30 has been elected to the dunhuang traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) ". These murals to cure patents, wipe tooth brushing, shaved, qigong exercise that wash bath, cleaning the yard, building block Wells, toilets, boiling the milk of health care and other social image picture, recreates the ancient silk road the folk life of hundreds of years ago. It together with a large number of medical literature constitutes the two basic skeleton of dunhuang traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), from theory to image, from text to the murals show the unique style and features of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and the connotation of dunhuang.

        Painted in 296 wat north eastern end of the top of their "fukuda JingBian murals, depicts the" widely applied medicine "the tableau that two families with help of one and a half lying patient, the doctor was beside the static gas pulse, a person is busy nervously behind him medication mortar system of Chinese traditional medicine. It could tell people, patients in a hurry, diagnosis while dao medicine pharmaceutical, need to quickly, this is a rare appeal administer medicine of "image" of the historical data. Moreover, sui emperor four years (584 AD) built 302 grottoes, wat, top of the bottom of one word wrap around go "fukuda JingBian," there are also records cure administer image. The painting is divided into two groups, paintings on a patient lying naked benches, on either side of the patient's family holding their hands, the doctor is diagnosis and treatment for the patients; The paintings for a weak naked patients, by his family to hold the sitting up, there is a doctor in front was busy dispensing drugs, and patients behind him stood a girl of medicine, oral serve patients. If the former is a mural depicting the doctor treatment of trauma, disease, or the use of topical drugs (with the dunhuang letter of ancient prescriptions of consistent use of external treatment), then after a picture is a description for oral administration treatment of internal diseases murals. This shows that the ancient folk masters to seize the indicators of medical examples in real life to image, the prospect of applying pesticide these details vividly, vividly recorded at the time of dunhuang and the ancient silk road, health and other social life scenes, it is very valuable. At the time under the condition of no other image record means, mural nature is a kind of ideal image recording tool.

        As early as the warring states period, China's ancient working people have the habit of "mouth" since morning. Came about in the eastern han dynasty, the original switch toothbrush, people with the broom made of willow branches toothbrush dipped in salt brushing your teeth, it is "the willow wash teeth". Dunhuang JingBian picture in a lot of pictures vividly recorded the folk custom cleaning teeth. Such as the glorious age of tang poetry when digging 159 wat south wall "maitreya JingBian tonsure map, bare to the waist a scarf around his neck, fat monk, squatting on the ground, left hand holding a gargle cup, put inside the cup have switch toothbrush, right hand finger to the salt in his mouth, still standing beside a waiter.

        From a large number of JingBian painting, not only can see many reflect their heads shaved, clean teeth, taking a bath, pay attention to personal hygiene, such as pictures, there are a lot of reflection of environmental health murals, is also very impressive. As in the Wells on fortification sundry, trash, fence, with splendid achnatherum copper broom to clean the yard, street, horses, etc. Built in the sui dynasty 206 wat also made a man in a roof paintings on the walls of shit in the toilet. These, for the research of the sui and tang dynasties era environment hygiene, are rare image data.

        In addition, also found in the dunhuang JingBian painting some practice qigong practice martial arts, such as physical fitness. Through these JingBian painting, we can know the ancient people from different sides to health needs and to the attention of the medical health.

The original link: http://www.cntcmvideo.com/zgzyyb/html/2013-09/12/content_77592.htm