Sun Simiao (58 1-682), a famous doctor, alchemist, Han nationality in the early Tang Dynasty, was born in Jingzhao Garden (now Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province), a physician in the Tang Dynasty, and was later called the "King of Medicine".

58 1 Born in a poor peasant family. [1] He was brilliant since he was a child and was highly valued by his teachers. When he grew up, he began to like Taoism. Due to the social unrest at that time, Sun Simiao lived in seclusion in Taibai Mountain, Qinling Mountain, Shaanxi Province, and gradually gained a high reputation. At that time, the imperial court appointed Sun Simiao as Dr. imperial academy, but he refused. In Taibai Mountain, Sun Simiao studied Taoist classics and explored the art of health preservation. At the same time, he also read many medical books and studied ancient medical prescriptions. He chose to "heal the wounded and rescue the dying" as his lifelong career. In order to understand the characteristics of Chinese herbal medicine, he traveled all over the mountains. Sun Simiao also attached great importance to the folk medical experience, constantly accumulated interviews and recorded them in time, and finally completed his immortal book "Thousands of Money". After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao began to accept the invitation of the imperial court and cooperate with it to carry out medical activities. In 659 AD, the world's first national pharmacopoeia, Tang Xin Materia Medica, was completed. Sun Simiao died in 682 AD. According to historical records, materia medica, Taoist collections and other documents, as well as the inscriptions on Yaowangshan Mountain in Yaoxian County, Shaanxi Province, there are more than 80 kinds of Sun Simiao's works, many of which have been lost to this day.