The seven gourd dolls in the well-known classic cartoon "Gourd Brothers" are made of seven gourds tied to a gourd vine. "Gourd" is the abbreviation of "pot", commonly known as gourd melon. According to folklore, gourd is not an ordinary thing. A gourd stands up, and the world is the ground, much like the environment of cultivating immortals and visiting Taoism. Therefore, gourd is a commonly used medicine container in ancient Taoism in China, and later became one of the typical Taoist costumes. For example, the old man in The Journey to the West and Tie Guai Li, one of the Eight Immortals.
Taoism takes "Tao" as the core, thinks that the avenue is inaction, puts forward the method of Tao, and advocates the nature of Tao. On the basis of pre-Qin Taoist thoughts, China's TCM regimen absorbed many thoughts of the Book of Changes and Taoism, achieving the purpose of harmonizing yin and yang, dredging qi and blood, nourishing essence, exercising bones and muscles, supporting viscera and conditioning skin, and achieving the goal of physical and mental harmony and health.
It is precisely because Taoism has a great influence on Chinese medicine and traditional health preservation that China has a saying that "medicine and Taoism are interlinked" since ancient times. Many Taoist priests know how to get rid of diseases while practicing alchemy. Doctors who diagnose diseases are often proficient in health preservation. If the gourd is the standard of ancient Taoist priests, like the portrait of Sun Simiao, the king of medicine in the Tang Dynasty, many venerable "old imperial doctors" often carry a "medicinal gourd" with white hair and beard, which looks like a "living fairy".
So in daily life, when we can't understand each other's situation, we often say, "I wonder what medicine he sells in the gourd?" This is where it came from. Qian Yu, a poet in the Yuan Dynasty, said: "Selling medicine is priceless, and hanging a pot is nameless." "Curing the world by hanging a pot" has become synonymous with saving lives, and it is also the realm of life pursued by ancient doctors.
Textual research on the origin of "medicinal gourd" is said to originate from the record of "Biography of Fang Shu in the Later Han Dynasty-Fei Changfang", to the effect that Fei Changfang, a native of Runan, failed to learn how to be a fairy to visit Taoism, which is fascinating. One day, while drinking in a restaurant, he suddenly caught a glimpse of an old man selling medicine in the street, with a gourd selling pills and powder hanging. When the strike ended and pedestrians gradually dispersed, the old man suddenly got into the gourd.
Fei Changfang was quite surprised and decided that the old man was a fairy. He bought wine and meat and paid a respectful visit to the old man. Knowing his purpose, the old man led him into this gourd this time. He opened his eyes and saw those magnificent buildings carved with beams and painted with flowers and grass, just like the Qiongge in the fairy mountain, with a unique hole in the sky.
Later, Fei Changfang studied alchemy with the old man for more than ten days. Before he left, the old man gave him a bamboo stick He rides bamboo like a horse and walks like a cloud. I soon returned to my hometown. His family thought he was dead at that time. It turns out that more than ten years have passed. It seems that the fairy will live for several years. From then on, Fei Changfang can cure all diseases, eliminate epidemics and bring people back to life.
There is also a legend that Xie Yuan, a hermit doctor with excellent medical skills and charity, is called "pot Weng" by the world. Xie Yuan, Gong Hu, Liyang (now Ma 'anshan City and County, Anhui Province), sells medicine in the city. No price, no treatment. The speaker said: Take this medicine, and you will vomit. If you get well one day, nothing will work. Collect tens of thousands of dollars every day to help the poor and hungry people in the city. "
In addition, there is a similar legend: Ge Hong's Biography of Immortals in Jin Dynasty and some miscellaneous notes in ancient history: in the summer of Han Dynasty, a plague occurred in Henan, and many people died and were not cured. One day, a magical old man came here. He opened an obscure Chinese medicine shop in an alley, with a gourd hanging in front of the door, which contained pills for treating this plague.
This "pot Weng" is skilled and charitable. Whenever someone comes to see a doctor, the old man takes out a pill from the medicine gourd and asks the patient to take it with warm water. In this way, people who drank this "pot Weng" medicine got better one by one.
These myths and legends are all similar. Because it is widely circulated, people who practice medicine are called "hanging pots" by later generations. The congratulatory message from the doctor or clinic is "saving the world by hanging pot", and the doctor practices medicine with "saving the world by hanging pot". Hang a gourd in the place where they practice medicine, similar to the "hijab" hanging in front of restaurants, inns, brothels and so on. It is actually a sign of medical practice.
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