Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) famous literary taste (on)

Gu Chengsha

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), is the treasure of the Chinese medical treasure-house. Is a great variety of traditional Chinese medicine, according to "compendium of materia medica" records, 1890. Application of the long history of Chinese medicine, according to the literature more than 2000 years. TCM medicines, vivid, accurate relevant, brief can remember, and full of implication, show the unique charm of Chinese culture.

TCM medicines are mostly has the certain history and significance of view name often can know its shape, taste its flavor, know its meaning. Have gained the name for the shape, such as ginseng, achyranthes, dog ridge, seven leaves a flower; There are named after the deep color, such as safflower, radix paeoniae rubra, radix scutellariae, hyacinth bletilla, black ugly; Have gained the name for the smell, such as combination, aloes, ageratum, fennel, musk. Is named after the deep taste, such as liquorice, neem son, zizyphus jujube kernel, asarum, fructus schisandrae, Due to the origin of the name, such as sichuan and dome, dried tangerine or orange peel; Have gained the name for season, such as pinellia, selfheal, honeysuckle; Have gained the name for medicinal parts and effect, such as honeysuckle, radix puerariae, motherwort, haliotis and so on.

As a result of the TCM medicines vivid and full of meaning, and therefore all previous dynasties scholars are often in into the poem, the word, the UN, the mystery and into the letter, to read interest is full, there is no lack of literary taste.

Quan tang dynasty poet has written a four-line "medicines poem" : "7 jersey Doris Trinidad incense, xiaoxiang rockfalls LinLin. Sometimes think white sea breeze, sit gou teng Yin no one." In turn implicit in the poem ze LAN, rock fall, everything is nothing, uncaria four flavor of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

Of bai juyi poetry "in rehmannia" : "m die spring rain, autumn grain loss early frost., taking no food, radix rehmanniae. Tanaka will be used for mining, dusk is not full basket. Tin with home, sell and white flour. And her fat horse, can make the gigantic. Wish yi ma residual millet, im for this emergency." Not only depicts the farmers of the miserable life of the poem: turn out, had to rely on excavation of rehmannia, feed the horses for rich residual millet to cure hunger, but also revealed the tonic effect of radix rehmanniae.

Li Baiceng has did: "lanling wine tulips, jade bowls to amber light." YongTao have did, "garden door 頫 more similar, spring breeze orange flowers everywhere." Du fu have poems said: "wave drift wild rice heavy cloud black, cold dew sank pink lotus seed pot." These verses, to promote medical knowledge play a role. In the Ming dynasty scholar li Xu wrote some old man ramble detox, also recorded three hundred poems equivalents. "Petunia vega don't years, Andrew luan glue lyre. Mica account empty people see, water aloes of JuanJuan. Ze LAN cattail pollen pine, cold dew initial setting plant soot. Not tilt, jade bamboo, dogwood chamomile since chongyang." "Dodder was attached to the female branches of dill, break up the front and long. Shame red flower hairpin chicken bun, lazy sweep indigo naturalis beauty. Clove diffuse than sorrow, knot, cardamom often don't tear drop. Double spirifer, willing to learn the cloud chamber bird head white He Chi." "Tianmen xiao, desolate winter leaves sorrow was full of rehmannia. Clear tears dark light powder surface and dust coagulation spare lock turmeric petticoats. Encrinite not chew first bitter heart, red bean and quality longer. Mirror solitary luan, euphorbia kansui death years why find chang Yang." Three poems embedded in petunia, radix dipsaci, mica, aloes, bamboo, dogwood, dodder, front, cloves, lucid asparagus, cardamom, light powder, such as 20 or 30 the name of the traditional Chinese medical herbs, clever, write the husband think wife (first) and his wife to her husband (first 2 and 3) deep lingering feelings.

Poets Chen Ya good medicines poetry not only, still good at filling medicine nouns, such as in the word "born check son" wrote: "the court number Zhuo xian, spin dedicated road. Naturally depressive TaoRen (Yin peach kernel), risks difficult without moving. Also know no medication cold, eat thin any harm. Big paper glue, licorice value." In the word into dedicated, peach kernel, myrrh, licorice and other medicines, traces of all.

Song dynasty patriotic poet xin qiji had a technique such as using pun, homophonic wrote the famous "set the wave a words:" mountain road in the wind to grass incense, more than the rain cool idea to bed; hu QuanShiGaoHuang what I have, more disease, wind month chapter. Ordinary mountain Jane drunk alone, alone, so should know child grass xuan busy. Lake sea had known power, who with? Only gump shochiku desolate." Combination of words, in addition, gypsum, windproof, dichroa, spikenard and other medicines is refers to the outside, also using homophonic way to embed the yu surplus grain surplus (rain), mast (child), seaweed (sea) early medicines. Meaning expressed by xin qiji patriotic thoughts and feelings of the sick people and the heroic and unyielding.

Xin qiji also fill is said to have a change of "man ting fang" word: "mica plate, pearl curtain closed, the wind blows away aloes. Leave feeling depressed, yellow gold wisp of weaving flow, BaiYing cassia twig cheng, calmly, mercury pond. Even eagerly, pass in pinellia, cool mint petticoats. A uncaria last month, an ordinary mountain night, dream night battle. Already light make-up, living rooms available. To continue didn't get a lyre, aconitum is white, the most bitter CanShang. Angelica! Dogwood is ripe, old chrysanthemum yellow." A total of ninety-four words, carefully looking for, and all word has 48 word is Chinese traditional medicine name: "mica, pearl, windproof, aloes, and cassia twig, calmly, mercury, forsythia, pinellia, mint, uncaria, dichroa, live alone, radix dipsaci, aconitum, bitter ginseng, angelica, dogwood, chrysanthemum yellow. This is embedded in the sentence; then the words together as before and after drug name light powder, make-up, etc; and related words in the sentence to match medicine name: turmeric, cortex phellodendri, prepared rhizome of rehmannia, etc. The first word with 24 of TCM! Word first stroke in boudoir decorative furnishings, then draw the hero woman living environment of the peaceful silence, have dieyin characters: moonlit night, a young woman of month is difficult to fall asleep, slowly, slowly walked out of the boudoir, came to the outdoor, in the face of beauty, a sense of sorrow bitterness climbed up the heart, choosing. Husband expedition battlefield, a young woman lived alone, she" had light make-up, "centerless dressing, is" very prosperity. One thousand kinds of amorous feelings, with whom say more! Middle "word, people, affection, complete the trinity, sat a young woman missing for a long time did not return in the battlefield for husband, that kind of miserable, sad, lonely bitter taste is to depict the modal out, from the page, and the word complex delicate emotional information transfer in the whole depends on word combination of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) at hand.

Especially in the qing dynasty HuiAn made a word "township south son", dedicating was based on the types of the basic root. The word cloud: "weak bone inone day in winter, everywhere haggard with past. Hugh stand mica plate edge, windproof, aconitum is like Chinese bulbul. Smile since the parasitic poor, sorrow pulse hard to connect vegetation. QuanShiGaoHuang euphorbia kansui old, calmly, receive yunshan bait." Medical name itself the meaning of the retreat, and become a vivid words constructs the new content of the poem.

In the qing dynasty written by xu 釚 the word yuan 丛谈 album a few first term, one: "acacia has deep meaning, white paper book difficult enough, bitter CanShang every word, so to penang lang read. Remember clearly about Chinese angelica, as far as cherry ripe. What Daisy? Not home." The first words, is to embed medicines, and to consider the phonological features of word, express dissatisfied housewife is keen, is difficult. Master the author used homophonic substitution method, direct drug name hazardous to prevail in the processing both poetic place, such as "meaning" is "job 's-tears", "white paper" generation "bai zhi", "home" "fennel", "lang read" generation "Wolf". In addition, the author has adopted the lexical, such as "CanShang"

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