2. The allusion "Medicine is a disease":

Once upon a time, some medical practitioners only passed on their medical skills to their descendants. At that time, there was a famous doctor named Shen Huai in Nanyang, who was in his seventies and had no children. So he was depressed all day, had no successor, couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, and slowly became ill. None of the local doctors can cure the old man's illness. After Zhang Zhongjing knew it, he came to Shen Huaigu. Zhang Zhongjing looked at his illness and immediately prescribed a prescription. He made pills out of a catty of whole-grain flour and coated them with cinnabar, so that the patient could eat.

After Shen Huai knew it, he asked his family to hang the pills made of grain flour under the eaves, and everyone pointed at it to ridicule Zhang Zhongjing. Relatives came to see him, and he smiled and said, "Look! This is a prescription given to me by Zhang Zhongjing. Who has seen the treatment of whole grains? Joke! Joke! " When his friend came to see him, he smiled and said, "Look! This is a prescription given to me by Zhang Zhongjing. Who can eat five Jin of noodles at a meal? That's funny! Funny! " I've been ill for decades, I haven't heard of it, hee hee! "He just wants this ridiculous thing, leaving all his troubles behind and not feeling sick.

At this time, Zhang Zhongjing came to visit him again and said, "Congratulations on your recovery!" " Shen Huai heard an epiphany, both admired and ashamed. Zhang Zhongjing went on to say, "Sir, what we do as doctors is to benefit the people, get rid of diseases and prolong life. Mr. Zhang has no children. Are we not all your children? " Why worry about no successor? "Shen Huai listened to, feel very reasonable, deeply moved. Since then, I have taught all my medical skills to Zhang Zhongjing and other young doctors.

Zhang Zhongjing (famous machine, word Zhongjing), a famous doctor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, was honored as a medical saint by later generations. He wrote the masterpiece Treatise on Febrile Diseases handed down from ancient times, and established the principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment, which is the basic principle of TCM clinic and the soul of TCM.

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1. Commemorative activities of Zhang Zhongjing:

On the 18th day of the first lunar month, Zhongjing's birthday was commemorated on a large scale.

Folk sacrificial activities on the first and fifteenth day of the first lunar month;

Zhang Zhongjing Medical Science and Technology Culture Festival is held once a year.

2. Zhang Zhongjing's main works:

Treatise on febrile diseases has played a great role in promoting the development of medicine in later generations.

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