Source:
Sun Simiao, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, wrote Preface to a Thousand Women.
Original text:
Nowadays, people living in the world no longer attach importance to medicine, study prescriptions, treat their loved ones' diseases in the first place, help the poor and the weak in the second place, and protect themselves in the second place for many years to support themselves. However, in order to compete for glory, enterprises are eager for power and money, but fame and fortune are the only thing. Worship its end and suddenly abandon its foundation. Want to show the outside, but tighten the inside.
Translation:
Blame the people who live in the world today. They don't pay attention to medicine. By studying the secret recipe, they can treat the diseases of monarchs such as heads of state and relatives such as parents, sisters and brothers. Moxibustion and acupuncture can treat the diseases of the poor for free/at a low price; You can give yourself health guidance, stay energetic and keep yourself healthy.
However, they are all competing for wealth, power and status. They all want to be on top and have great power and wealth, which makes others afraid of what he wants from him and envy him. Rich and powerful people come and go in sedan chairs. Everywhere we go, people look around, stand on tiptoe and cran their necks to watch rich and powerful people die, which makes people very envious. Diligent, diligent, eager to earn a lot of money like rich and powerful people. Make yourself an enviable person.
Extended materials:
Confucian Health Avenue: Knowing Doctors as Filial Piety
Confucianism stresses filial piety. According to filial piety, the most fundamental and important requirement is to let parents live well. Although ordinary people can't "support the world" like the emperor, they should also keep their parents healthy. If their parents are sick, their children can help them reduce their illness. What a relief. Therefore, the ancients said that "a son will never know a doctor" and "God will cure his relatives' diseases", which is also the practice of filial piety.
Sun Simiao once said: "If a loved one is ill and can't be cured, it is not filial piety." Wu Jutong, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, was keen on the imperial examination at first, but later his father fell ill and saw many doctors, but he still didn't save his life. This is a great blow to Wu Jutong. He said, "My father has been ill for more than a year, but he can't afford it. He was so ashamed that he couldn't even name it, and he was heartbroken. He thinks his father is ill and doesn't know how to treat him. How can he stand between heaven and earth? " I bought a prescription book and read it except one. "(Introduction to Treatise on Febrile Diseases) shows that it is filial piety that prompted the scholar to abandon literature and become a doctor.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Golden Daughter Preface