Saving the world by hanging a pot is a word to praise doctors for treating diseases and saving lives. Doctors are kind-hearted and help all beings with medical skills, which is known to the world. This sentence comes from the Book of the Later Han Dynasty-Biography of Fang Shu-Fei Changfang.

Many people may not understand why there is a gourd hanging at the door of some Chinese medicine shops, but when you mention the sentence "I don't know what medicine is sold in the gourd", you know that the gourd must be related to medicine. Gourd, called "pot" in ancient times, commonly known as gourd melon, is one of the symbols of ancient Taoism. The "broken pot in August" in the poem "Qi Feng July" refers to the gourd filled with medicine, that is, the "medicine gourd".

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The reason why the word "hanging pot helps the world" is used to describe doctors is related to a fairy, that is, Gong Hu. According to the Records of the Later Han Dynasty and the Legend of Immortals, there was a man named Fei Changfang in the Han Dynasty who was a market manager by profession.

One day, he saw a new old man selling medicine in the market. The old man set up a stall and hung a medicine gourd on the stall, claiming to cure all diseases, and a pill in the gourd cured the disease.

At first, everyone didn't believe it, but some people were curious and bought pills for testing. As the old man said, medicine cured the disease. At that time, people rushed to buy it, and the old man made a lot of money at once. Although the old man made a lot of money selling medicine, he gave alms to poor beggars in a blink of an eye, and people were deeply impressed by his noble medical ethics and character.

Because they didn't know the name of the old man, people took the medicine gourd as a symbol, called the old man "Gong Hu" and praised Gong Hu's spirit of saving the world.