Such as barbershops, toy stores, department stores, etc. Spring Festival couplets should also be posted. For good luck, rural people even put couplets on chicken coops, cowsheds, pigsty and even toilets. There were many pharmacies in ancient times. What kind of couplets will they put on the shops after the Spring Festival?
Let's take a look at the medical Spring Festival couplets in history!
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was an old gentleman in Zhejiang who was not only skilled in medicine, but also good at calligraphy and poetry. He is called "the Three Wonders" and "the eccentric doctor". Fan has been a doctor for more than forty years and has saved countless patients. He is a famous doctor in modern China.
One year during the Spring Festival, Fan wrote a couplet for his drugstore:
I hope that people will always be healthy;
Why am I not poor alone?
This couplet is simple and clear. Fan only used the word 10 to express his lofty wishes. In addition, Fan wrote a couplet for his study:
Why will I never get old?
But please don't be born with all diseases.
Doctors are never businessmen. They are not for money, but for saving lives. Fan is such a person. Since his father, his family has been very sympathetic to patients. Others charge 60 points, and their family only charges 46 points. Some people look down on the disease. He not only gives free treatment, but also sends ginseng.
At the end of Qing Dynasty, there was an old Chinese doctor in Hunan. As long as the Chinese New Year is over, he will stick such a couplet on the door of his drugstore:
As long as people in the world are not sick;
Why worry about putting the medicine on the shelf?
I remember going to the hospital before, and I heard two old people sigh with emotion: Now there are many patients, and doctors and experts make too much money, but even so, it is still too little. Let's make a performance evaluation and concentrate on making money. 10 yuan can be optimistic about the disease, which may cost you 100 yuan; A disease that can be cured in a week requires you to be hospitalized for a month ... only a real doctor thinks that he can't sell medicine.
It is said that there is also a doctor in Jiangxi who posts such couplets every year.
During the Republic of China and the Spring Festival, a pharmacy in Tongcheng, Anhui Province posted couplets:
Spring, summer, autumn and winter, hard to collect mountain Chinese medicine;
East, west, north and south, diligent in treating others in the world.
I said hard work, hard work, collecting herbs, saving people, spring, summer, autumn and winter, east, west, north and south, but I didn't say making money.
However, the best thing to say is the following couplet.
Ointment is edible, medicine is edible, and plaster is edible?
Spleen is good for medicine, qi is good for medicine, and temper is bad for medicine!
It is said that this couplet was written by an old Chinese doctor in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, and it is even rumored to be a female doctor.
The beauty of this couplet lies in pun. Plaster and medicine are used to treat diseases, but plaster also means "Dan medicine". This is what we often say, "What plasters are sold in the gourd", because ancient Taoist priests often put Dan medicine in the gourd. In Journey to the West, the pills of Taishang Laojun are also in the gourd. Therefore, the Shanglian added a layer of meaning, that is, "you can take medicine for treating diseases, but don't take any panacea."
Second, the key to TCM treatment is spleen and qi, but the combination of spleen and qi refers to human temperament. It is easy to treat a person's spleen or qi problems, but a person with a bad temper and easy to run away will hurt his body and be hopeless.
To sum up, don't take medicine indiscriminately, be calm and cultivate one's morality. 22 words can be said to be the key to illness and longevity.