Sun Simiao (54 1-682), Han nationality, was born in Jingzhao Garden in Tang Dynasty (now Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province). He was honored as the "King of Medicine" by later generations and was also a Taoist figure with a high status. In many Taoist temples, there is a "Medicine King Hall". He has a noble medical ethics, attaches importance to health preservation and helps others. He is a real Taoist. He was very clever since he was a child and was highly praised 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. He regards "saving lives" as his lifelong career. In order to understand the characteristics of Chinese herbal medicine, he traveled all over Qian Shan, and attached great importance to the folk medical experience, accumulated interviews and recorded them in time, and finally completed the immortal book "A Thousand Women Are Best". In 659 AD, the world's first national pharmacopoeia, Tang Xin Materia Medica, was completed. Sun Simiao died in 682 AD.

Personality dispute

Born in 58 1 year.

In the Qing Dynasty, Khufu in Sun Simiao was a mountain. Ji Xiaolan talked about Sun Simiao's birthday in the Summary of Siku Quanshu. He thinks that Sun Simiao was born in Xin Chou (58 1) in the first year of Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty and died in Renwu (682) in the first year of Yongchun, Tang Gaozong, at the age of 10 1.

Born 560 years ago

Feidedao's A Brief History of China Medicine holds that Shu in the Tang Dynasty said that he lived in Taibai Mountain because of the royal family in the Zhou Dynasty, and Emperor Wendi in the Sui Dynasty recruited him as a doctor of the country and said that he could not afford to get sick. It is inferred that Sun Simiao is at least 578-579 years old, so Sun Shi should have been born 560 years ago and his age should be over 120 years old. Shi He also advocated a similar theory.

Born in 557

Sun Simiao was born in the first year of Xiao Min in the Northern Zhou Dynasty (557) and died in the first year of Yongchun at the age of 125.

The main reasons are as follows: 1. According to Sun Simiao Biography of Old Tang Dynasty, when the Northern Zhou Dynasty proclaimed himself emperor, Sun Simiao lived in seclusion in Taibai Mountain because of his royal family. Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty was appointed as a doctor in Guo Zi, but Sun Simiao said he could not be an official. According to the seventh year of the Zhou Dynasty (578), Jiande was in the Zen position, Jingdi was in the Zen position the following year, and Emperor Wendi assisted Xianger in the second year (580). Sun Simiao was born in the first year, which is doubtful.

Second, Wei Zhi is equal to Emperor Taizong's official visit to repair the history of Qi, Liang, Chen, Zhou and Sui, and visited Sun Simiao many times, but he "passed on from mouth to mouth as if he had seen it with his own eyes". According to historians, for example, Yao Silian was born in 557 and Li Baiyao was born in 565. They are familiar with the history of the previous generation. Will they ask Sun Simiao who is ten or twenty years younger than themselves again and again?

3. The Biography of Sun Simiao in the Old Tang Dynasty said: "I am asking about my hometown, and there are hundreds of people in the clouds. The things between Zhou and Qi are vivid, so I am not a hundred years old." According to historical records, Sun Simiao was born around 557 years ago, and most historical events in his biography can be explained. If he really died in the first year of Yongchun, then Sun Simiao's death date should be 120 years old.

Born in 54 1 year.

Ma Boying and others hold this view. Their main viewpoints are: in the past, historians thought that the heart was really a mistake of Xin and Chou, and the statement that Sun Simiao's image was changed from "92 this year" to "93 this year" in The Preface to the Sick Pear Tree was not sufficient and reliable, and pointed out that the Record of General Manager of Luozhou was regarded as the Record of Northern History, Zhou Shu and No Dugu, while Taibai Mountain was denied to live in seclusion, be praised as a prodigy and be recruited by Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty. Ma Boying and others think that Sun Shi's claim that "the heart was born in Kaiyuan" is an empty talk. Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty was born in the seventh year of Datong, Liang Dynasty (54 1), which happened to be in his heart. The whole sentence can be understood as "I was born in the same year as Emperor Kaidi, that is, (54 1)." They think that with this inference, historical materials such as Dugu's belief in praising the "holy boy" (probably during his return to Chang 'an in 550-556), Emperor Wendi's courtship and negotiation can be explained. Guo also presided over the theory of 54 1 year. Accordingly, Sun Shi's age is 14 1 year.

Born on 5 15 or 5 18.

According to Huang Zhuzhai's biography of the medical fairy Sun Zhenren, Du praised Sun Simiao as a "child prodigy", which should be that Du was ordered to join Fu Yue (He Bayue) in Datong, Guanzhong in six years (534). At this time, Sun Simiao's age is weak, pushing up 19 years, so Sun Shi's birth year should be in the 14th year of Tian Liang (5 15 years) and he died in the first year of Yongchun. A similar point of view is the book Tongyitang written by Liu in Qing Dynasty. According to his calculation, Du's evaluation time was between the third year of Liang Datong (537) and the fourth year of Datong (538), when he was 20 years old, and he was born in the first year to the second year of the Northern Wei Dynasty (56438+).