Ge Hong (283-343), born in Zhichuan and Baopuzi, was named Ge Xianweng, born in Jurong, Danyang (now Jiangsu). He was a Yin-Yang family, physician, naturalist and medicinal chemist, alchemist and famous Taoist in the Jin Dynasty. He has a high position in the history of China's philosophy, medicine and science.

According to legend, the classics in Lingbao Jing were passed from Ge Xuan to Ge Hong and then to Fu.

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Ge Hong wrote a lot in his life, and Bao Puzi is his masterpiece. This book is divided into two parts: inside and outside. The inner chapter consists of 20 volumes, discussing the immortal prescriptions, preserving health and prolonging life, eliminating evil but eliminating evil, and summarizing the immortal prescriptions before the Jin Dynasty, including keeping one, promoting qi and guiding. , accumulated valuable information for medicine; The external chapter, totaling 50 volumes, discusses the gains and losses of the world, whether the world is obscure or not, and expounds its social and political views.

This book links the theory of immortal Taoism with Confucianism, and integrates the two philosophical systems of Confucianism and Taoism for the first time. The appearance of Bao Puzi had a far-reaching impact on the development of Taoism. In addition, there are inscriptions and poems 100 volumes, 30 volumes of chapter notes on the art of war, immortal biography 10 volumes and recluse biography 10 volumes. He also copied the words of a hundred schools of thought from the Five Classics and Seven History, and asked for 3 10 volume "The Art of War".

In addition, there are "synopsis of the golden chamber" 100 volume and "elbow backup emergency prescription" 4 volumes. However, many people died, and the Orthodox Taoist Collection and the Wanli Continuing Taoist Collection collected 13 kinds of works.

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The main activities of his life are alchemy and medicine. He is not only a religious theorist integrating Confucianism and Taoism, but also a doctor engaged in alchemy and medical activities. Ge Hong dares to "doubt the past", opposes "valuing the far and neglecting the present", emphasizes innovation, thinks that "although there are many ancient books, they may not be perfect", and insists on attaching importance to practical medical treatment and experiments in alchemy activities, which is very important for his medical contribution.

Ge Hong read a lot of medical books and paid attention to analysis and research. In medical practice, he summed up treatment experience and collected folk medical experience. On this basis, he completed a hundred volumes of Fang Yuhan. Because of the voluminous volumes, it is difficult to carry and retrieve, so the abstracts of common clinical diseases, acute diseases and their treatment are compiled into three volumes, which is convenient for doctors to carry and meet the needs of clinical emergency retrieval. Therefore, this book can be called the first clinical first aid manual in the history of traditional Chinese medicine.

He summed up the immortal thoughts of predecessors and proved the existence of immortal longevity, which is of great significance in the history of Taoism.

He discovered the redox reaction of mercury. He was the first person to apply rabies brain to the wounds of rabies patients to treat rabies.

There is a Gexian Temple in Lingfeng Temple in Ningbo, which is dedicated to the statue of Ge Hong. In the second year of Xianhe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (327), Ge Hong came here to make an alchemy. When he lived in seclusion in Lingfeng Mountain, the plague was prevalent, and Ge Hong collected and sent medicines widely, which brought many people back to life. Every year from the first day of the first lunar month to the tenth day of the first lunar month, the incense in Lingfeng Temple is the most prosperous day, because it is said that the tenth day is Ge Xianweng's birthday, and people have come here to commemorate this god who helps the world.

He found that sulfuric acid (copper sulfate pentahydrate) can transform gold and copper, that is, the redox reaction of copper sulfate and iron replacing copper.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Ge Hong