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Wudang museum Taoist medicine exhibition hall
Taoist medicine and health preservation is an important school of traditional medicine in China. Taoism has always been aiming at practicing medicine and saving the world, and attaches great importance to the study of medical prescriptions, thus forming a tradition of advocating medicine.

Among the four great inventions in China, gunpowder was invented by Taoist alchemists while learning about pharmacology. Wudang Mountain is a natural plant medicine storehouse, so many doctors collect, make and use Chinese herbal medicines themselves, and have rich practical experience in the form, medicinal properties, pharmacology and compatibility of Chinese herbal medicines. Nearly 100 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines, such as plaster, pills, pills, etc., are wonderful works of Taoist medical culture in China.

On the third floor of the exhibition hall, medicinal specimens and pharmaceutical instruments are displayed, especially the famous medicines "Babao Zijing Ingot" and "Honey Steamed Polygonatum" made by Taoist priests in Wudang Mountain are also exhibited to the public for the first time.

Candian woodcarving nude statue

Woodcarving nude portraits of two men and two women with different age structures collected in Wudang Mountain are rare in shape. Archaeologically, there are woodcarving male naked wooden servants unearthed in the Western Han Dynasty. For these nude woodcarvings, professionals believe that it may be related to Taoist acupoints and massage demonstrations.