The second layer of relationship was found by Mrs. Sheng. On the other side is He, the grandson of the royal family, an old lady who cures too much. Although the royal family is not a noble family, it has been clean for generations, and it is really right for the royal old lady to be kind to the royal old lady. If there were no future husband, I would have married and lived a plain life. Although "Know No" is only a TV series, you can still find many interesting points after careful consideration. For example, although she is an ordinary woman, she is the daughter of a five-product official, but she is just a doctor. Isn't it the highs to marry Ming Lan? Why do many people in the play say that two people are suitable for each other? Can doctors catch up with officials in Song Dynasty?
First, the occupational discrimination of early doctors In modern times, doctors are a very popular profession. The longer they are employed, the more competitive they will be. Moreover, doctors have a high social status, and doctors with high medical skills are highly respected. Some doctors' homes are almost filled with banners sent by patients' families. But in ancient times, the profession of doctor was at the low end of the food chain for a long time, and it was called cheap profession, which was despised by most people in society. Zhang Ji once wrote in an article: "The medical industry is cheap, and it often disdains to fuck its practitioners." Even Han Yu pointed out in Shi Shuo that a doctor is a profession that a gentleman disdains to be juxtaposed with. It can be seen that scholars have great prejudice against doctors.
Not only that, but even doctors themselves can't get any support when choosing this profession, so they can only stick to it by their own obsession. For example, Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was born in a famous family and his father was an official, so Zhang Zhongjing received a good education. However, after Zhang Zhongjing's generation, his father hoped that he would study poetry hard and strive for official positions, but Zhang Zhongjing was only interested in medical books, and his greatest wish was to be a good doctor who could cure diseases and save lives. Zhang Zhongjing's choice was not understood in that society at that time. All aristocratic families thought his choice was incredible, because Zhang Zhongjing was born in the upper class anyway, but he decided to be a doctor with a low status. This is an anecdote that anyone saw.
Second, the change of doctors' status in Song Dynasty. The story background of Know No took place in the Song Dynasty, but who was the object of negotiation? His medical skill was brilliant, but he was not famous, indicating that the relationship between literati and doctors in the Song Dynasty was not as tense and rigid as before. As mentioned above, the early literati and aristocratic families were extremely disgusted and despised doctors, but in the Song Dynasty, the literati stayed away from doctors. Fan Zhongyan once said a wise saying: "If you are not a good doctor, you must be a good doctor". In the eyes of the whole world, being an official in North Korea is a man's lifelong pursuit, but being a doctor is not necessarily a good thing.
Doctors can not only help people in the world to heal the wounded and rescue the dying, but also master the way of health preservation and prolong life, which is a good career for people and themselves. Moreover, in Fan Zhongyan's view, being a doctor is a good way to be an official, which is a very high evaluation of the profession of doctors. Su Dongpo was one of the literati with a high sense of existence in the Northern Song Dynasty. He is not only versatile in writing and poetry, but also studies medicine. When Su Dongpo was a magistrate in Hangzhou, it coincided with the year of famine and epidemic. He used his salary to set up an "Anlefang" to help countless poor patients. It can be seen that the literati in the Song Dynasty not only changed their attitude towards doctors, but also cherished a doctor's heart to save lives.
Why did the status of doctors change so much in Song Dynasty? This is closely related to the support of the government. The history of the Northern Song Dynasty was only 160 years, but the imperial court organized ten activities of "viewing and engraving medical books". The imperial court sent people to sort out the medical prescriptions of the past dynasties, and even set up a "correction medical book bureau" to sort out medical classics with more research value. Besides, even the emperor knows a little about medicine. It is said that Song Taizu's younger brother Zhao Guangyi was once ill, and Song Taizu went to visit him and personally burned moxa sticks to treat his younger brother. In fact, compared with his brother, Zhao Guangyi is more proficient in medical skills, and he especially likes collecting prescriptions. After Zhao Guangyi acceded to the throne, he also sent someone to compile the prescription into Taiping Sheng Huifang.
Zhao Heng in Song Zhenzong is also very keen on treating people. He often uses the minister as an experiment. Prime Minister Wang Dan was in poor health, so Song Zhenzong gave him a bottle of medicinal liquor. I didn't expect Wang Dan to feel comfortable after a few drinks. Song Zhenzong later explained that this wine has the effect of dispelling cold and turbidity, and drinking a cup before the court can effectively resist the cold. Because the emperor attached great importance to worshipping doctors, the society's views on doctors and medicine also changed. Learning medical skills and reading medical books became a trend in society at that time. Most well-known scholars have collated, collected and even compiled many medical books, thus Confucian medicine was born. "Confucian doctor" refers to a doctor who has not studied systematically, but gradually mastered medical skills in the process of learning Confucianism, has basic medical knowledge and pays attention to the basic cultivation of Confucianism.
The road to the imperial examination is not easy, and there are very few Confucian scholars who can pass the examination and become officials. So when their careers are not smooth, they will choose to become doctors. For example, Xu participated in many scientific expeditions, but failed many times. Finally, I switched to medicine, specializing in typhoid fever. When the plague broke out, he personally went to the door for treatment and saved countless people. In addition, many people are still willing to study medicine, such as Guo Si, a scholar in Song Shenzong's time, who popularized medical knowledge among the people during his official career in Iowa and collected and wrote a lot of useful prescriptions. Song Ci, the male master of the Song Dynasty, was also a scholar. He personally wrote the world's first monograph on forensic medicine and even spread it abroad, which is a milestone in forensic medicine.
In short, the Song Dynasty was a crucial period for the development of doctors' status. At that time, the views and attitudes of rulers and society towards doctors changed, and intellectuals in the upper class also had direct and frequent contact with doctors. It is not difficult to understand why the five-product students in Know No are willing to marry their daughters to a medical sage.