The ancestor of Xinglin is Dong Feng. He was a famous doctor 1800 years ago in the late Han and Three Kingdoms periods. He was born in Xu Dong Village, Houguan County, which is now Qingshan Village, Guhuai Town, Changle City, Fujian Province. There is a mountain behind the village, and there is also a monument on the mountain "Han Dong Feng Lian Dan Chu", which was later named Dong Fengshan in memory of Dong Feng. Lin Hong, one of the "Top Ten Talents in Fujian" in the Ming Dynasty, once wrote a poem "Dong Fengshan": "I admire recreation and love to visit famous mountains. Famous mountains are rare, so why talk about Yingzhou? Dong Feng is tall and lofty, with fairies on it. The crane is gone forever, and Huang Mao died in Danqiu. The bottom is connected with the Bohai current, and the top is connected with white clouds. The sun shone on the shady wall, and the macaques hung on the cold branches. It's not far from you, but you can accompany me when you are happy. Immortals can't be expected, empty mountains and spring and autumn. " This mountain has been turned into Dongfeng Mountain National Forest Park, and memorial buildings such as Dongfeng Caotang, Nanyatang and Baicaoyuan have been built at the foot of the mountain.
Dong Feng, whose word Jun is different, is as famous as Zhang Ji (Zhang Zhongjing) in Nanyang and Hua Tuo in Qiao County, and is also called "Jian 'an Three Magical Doctors". There are biographies of Hua Tuo in the History of the Later Han Dynasty and the History of the Three Kingdoms. Zhang Zhongjing wrote Treatise on Febrile Diseases and other classic works of traditional Chinese medicine handed down from generation to generation, which can be used for future generations to study him. But only Dong Feng, with no biography of national history, has no personal works. His blank, later generations mainly from the Jin Dynasty alchemist, medical scientist Ge Hong's biography of Dong Fengxian and limited local chronicles sporadic records, looking for his trace.
Dong Feng lives in a troubled time. Although "heroes are born in troubled times", it is actually more suffering. Dong Feng chose to be a doctor, adhering to the Confucian idea that "being a good doctor is a good doctor". According to records, Dong Feng seems to be good at beauty care. Ge Hong's Biography of Immortals records a "teenager" who worked as a county magistrate in Houguan County. When I first met Dong Feng, Dong Feng was over forty. After his fifties, Dong Feng was nearly a hundred years old at this time, and the county magistrate was "white-haired". Dong Feng is "as beautiful as ever". Ge Hong said that Dong Feng "died in the world for more than 300 years, and his face looks like a person in his thirties". This statement is like "Peng Zu lived to be 800 years old", and I'm afraid it can only be regarded as a "novelist's statement".
According to the legend of immortals, Dong Feng has been to Jiaozhou, which is now the area of Guangdong, Guangxi and Vietnam, and later lived at the foot of Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi. According to the research of modern Chen Kun and others, Dong Feng went to Jiaozhou and Lushan through southern Fujian, and then traveled to Zhejiang and Nanjing, so there are relics in Fengshan and Yi 'an. There is no doubt that Dong Feng's medical skill is really superb. "Fairy Biography" describes several cases of Dong Feng's treatment, such as "Wonderful Hands", which says that "learning evil is the secretariat of Jiaozhou and poisoning in three days. Shi Feng is there. Just take three pills, put them in your mouth, fill them with water, and let people shake their heads. In a short time, my hands and feet moved, and my complexion gradually recovered. I could sit for half a day and talk for the next four days. The disease of stone evil is a bit like cerebral infarction or cerebral hemorrhage. Chinese medicine can sometimes be cured by promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. I believe this is true. This record was also recorded by Pei Songzhi when he later annotated the Biography of the Three Kingdoms of Shixie, but the text was slightly different. " Legend of the Immortal also tells the story of "treating boils with bath", saying that Dong Feng "later returned to Zhang Yu, and there was a dying person with boils at the foot of Lushan Mountain, who gave him a gift and kowtowed to him. Let the patient sit in a room, cover it with a 50% cloth towel and don't move. " The patient only feels that "there is something to lick the body, and the pain is unbearable and everywhere." "If that thing disappears for a long time, it will be sent to the pool to take a bath, and the pain will stop. On the 20th, the skin healed and the body was like solidified fat. "This kind of skin exchange is quite surprising, but I don't know the secret. The former situation can be said to be the resurrection, and the latter situation can be said to be the rejuvenation of the holy hand, both of which are the most difficult diagnosis and treatment effects in the medical field. According to fairy tales, Dong Feng also knows a lot about meteorology, such as the story of "Caotang Begging for Rain": "After the drought, Ding Shiyan, the county magistrate, suggested,' I heard that Dong Jun had a way, so it brought rain'." Because the wine is preserved, it means drought. Feng said, "The rain smells good!" Because looking at the house, he said,' poor houses can see the sky, so what are you afraid of rain?' To understand what he meant, he said, "Sir, when it rains, you should build a good house." Tomorrow, Shi Yan will transport 100 generations to bamboo and build a house. Collect soil for mud and draw water for miles. Feng said:' You don't need your ears, it will rain at dusk. It's a stop. At dusk, it rained cats and dogs, and the competition was even, and the people were happy. "Dong Feng in the story has a good sense of humor, suggesting that the county magistrate repaired his house in exchange, and the county magistrate is also very cute. Even if he marries a wife, Dong Feng is different. The story in the same book "Killing Cats and Eliminating Demons" says: "If a county magistrate has a woman who is possessed by an evil spirit, her medical skills are invalid, but she should be treated by offering her services. If she recovers, she should be treated with a towel. Let it be. That is, call a white catfish a few feet long to the door of the sick patient and ask the waiter to cut it open, so that the female patient will be cured. I regard my daughter as my wife and have no children for a long time. Every time I go on a business trip, my wife can't live alone, so I ask a woman to raise her. "Record of Lushan Mountain" Volume 7 also has the story of "Xundong chopping jiaozi": "The east gate of Xunyang City is connected with the bridge, and there are often jiaozi, which is harmful to the people. Dong Feng can cure, a jiaozi is dying. "Although these stories are mostly mythical and supernatural, they truly reflect the ancient people's worship of Dong Feng. They put Dong Feng's story on the veil of myth and expressed their admiration and yearning, just as the stories of famous doctors such as Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo were deified, which is completely understandable.
However, what Dong Feng praised and praised most by later generations was the story of Xinglin. Ge Hong's Biography of Immortals says that he lives in the mountains, treats people and things without taking money or things. Those who recovered from a serious illness planted five apricots and one light. In this decade, more than 100 thousand plants have been counted, all of which have become forests. It is to let all kinds of birds and animals in the mountains play below, and soldiers don't grow grass, which is often like treating a disease. "Dong Feng is not greedy for money, but only treats people with apricots. It is really a poetic realm. Think about "bloom is warm in February". There are ten thousand almond trees and brocade everywhere. How noisy is it? Adults and children laugh and birds and animals play, which can be described as a fairyland on earth and a paradise! This is the highest state of harmony between man and nature. After the apricots were ripe, Dong Feng set up a straw shed in the forest and posted a notice: "If you want to buy apricots, you don't have to offer them. Just put an altar of grain in the shed and get an apricot. "It's exactly the same as the unmanned shop now. Because there is no supervision, greedy people will inevitably take the trick of putting less rice and taking more apricots. Miraculously, there are tigers roaring behind in Xinglin, and greedy people are scared out of their wits and flee everywhere. They threw the apricots all over the floor and didn't bother to pick them up, but when they got home, they measured the number of the remaining apricots, which was exactly the same as Xiaomi's. For those who openly steal apricots, "tigers will come home one by one and bite them to death." "When the family knew that they had stolen the apricots, they returned them, kowtowed and thanked them, but they made the apricots alive." The story of "Tiger guarding Xinglin" is obviously deified. According to legend, this tiger who knows how to punish evil and promote good was also saved by Dong Feng. The tiger didn't spit bones when hunting, but it got stuck in its throat. It was very painful, so it turned to Dong Feng for help. Dong Feng put a bamboo tube on his arm for protection, put his hand into the tiger's mouth and helped the tiger take out the bone stuck in his throat. The tiger was saved. This bamboo tube later evolved into a bell on the palm of your hand, which is called "tiger's palm" by the medical profession. What is commendable is that the millet that Dong Feng exchanged for apricots "helps the poor and helps the poor, and supplies people who can't travel", reaching more than "20,000 people" every year. Dong Feng doesn't charge money for seeing a doctor, but only needs to plant apricots, "exchanging apricots for food" to help the poor, which is excellent for doctors' fraternity! This is Dong Feng's original Xinglin medical ethics and Xinglin spirit.
After Dong Feng "stood out", people set up an altar in Xinglin to worship this wonderful and kind general doctor, and the word "Xinglin" became a special term for doctors. Since ancient times, doctors have been proud to be among the "Xinglin people", and their medical skills are valued by the "Xinglin Medical Records", praised by "Xinglin Master", praised by medical ethics as "Xinglin Spring Warm" and honored by medical ethics as "Xinglin Health Preservation". Since then, Dong Feng's "Xinglin" anecdote has not only become a beautiful talk between the people and the medical community, but also become a model for doctors in past dynasties to motivate themselves to improve their medical skills and relieve patients' pain. Xie Jingxian in the Tang Dynasty was famous for his medical skills. He established a thatched cottage in Xinglin, Dongfeng, to treat the people. Guo Dong, a famous doctor in Ming Dynasty, took Dong Feng as an example and planted 1000 apricot trees at the foot of the mountain where he lived. Zheng Qinyu, a famous doctor in Suzhou, also opened an apricot garden in the hospital, and most of the items donated by patients were used for poverty alleviation. Yan Zicheng, a famous doctor in Yuan Dynasty, cured the painter Zhao Meng when he was dying. Zhao Meng specially drew a picture of almond trees as a gift. Because Dong Feng is also an alchemist, he uses elixir to treat diseases. Therefore, among the people, Dong Feng was regarded as a fairy teacher by the people. In many places, such as Fuzhou, Taiwan Province Province and even Japan, there are many temples dedicated to Dong Feng, such as the "Life-saving Hall", in which the God is Dong Feng's immortal teacher. Over time, in many stories passed down from mouth to mouth, Dongfeng became a "god" and Xinglin became a sacred place.
The Xinglin virtue founded by Dong Feng has become a cultural factor for the continuation of the Chinese nation. In ancient poetry, it can be said that it is relished, such as Li Bai's "Yudong Gathering Site, Kuangshan Planting Apricot Fields" ("Sending Two Seasons to the East"), Du Fu's "The incense burner peak is hidden in the sunny lake, and the apricot fairy's home is near the white elm" ("Lan Ruo monk went to Hunan for the winter"), and Wang Wei's "Dongfeng Xinglin, Tao Qian is full of flowers" (. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many poets even used Xinglin and Dong Feng as poems to express their nostalgia and admiration for Dong Feng and Xinglin. For example, Li Shimin's poem "Xinglin" said: "There are trees around the forest on the hillside, and this unique name has been seen in several places. The flowers are near the medicine bar, and it is raining. In the afternoon, the moss is clear. The tiger is full of clouds before lying on the rock, and the people at the bottom of the tree are not surprised. There are still apricots in the ruins, so you should only miss them. " Luo Rujing's Xinglin: "Dong Xian learned to plant apricot trees, and apricot trees became forests, and Dong Xian went. Jinxia is windy, and jade hangs in the air for half an autumn rain. The medicine stove is covered with moss, and the tiger can't breathe when lying in the forest. How can I find his footprints in an empty mountain! Dongfeng only looks at apricot flowers. " There is Zeng Mao's "Dongfeng Xinglin": "Where was Dong Xian's family in the past, and the cloud lived under Furong Peak. At that time, all the trees were planted into forests, and thousands of trees blossomed every year. The medicine furnace is 90% cinnabar. Take Yun Fei to Taiqing Palace. Looking back on apricot trees like yesterday, the east wind steamed Xia Hong everywhere. Spring clouds are embossed into houses, and autumn fruits are harvested by mountains and tigers. However, laughing at Su Dan and Jing Quan, the cold current is unbearable. " "Xinglin Poetry" written by a scholar in Qing Dynasty: "I also know medical skills, and I yearn for Dong Jun all my life. Medicine is not the same as the market price, but apricot is cultivated. Tigers reap the mountains and valleys, and dragons emerge from the streams. Fang Lin has been cut for a long time, and I admire Yu Fang here. " These poems not only express the reverence for Dong Feng, but also depict the unique scenery of Xinglin fairyland and the poet's detached feelings, and reproduce the beautiful scene of Xinglin people living in harmony with nature and trusting and interacting with each other.
Xinglin bloom, the rain rejuvenates. Xinglin culture embodies the beautiful sustenance and pursuit rooted in the hearts of the public, the best expression of medical ethics and the poetic embodiment of the prosperity of national culture. Today, when we look up at the towering statue of Dong Feng in Xinglin, we will feel that Dong Feng is like a towering mountain, trickling and silent. Dongfeng is an immortal soul and the embodiment of human spirit of great love. (Lin Ruqiu)