Compilation of Female Physicians
In 722, Ningxi brought Atractylodes macrocephala to Songyuan.
Bai Zhu met Shen Gongfeng in Songyuan.
"Sir, what are you doing here?"
Shen Gongfeng told Bai Shu, "The three thousand lookouts of Songyuan know everything under heaven. I am the deputy lookout."
Bai Zhu was dumbfounded.
—The Shen in Shen Gongfeng refers to Shen Yuan and Shen Zhou, the two chief stewards of the Jingyu Dynasty's cabinet.
People from Songyuan are not allowed to leave the pass without a valid reason, except for lookouts.
The lookout from Songyuan brought news from beyond the pass to Baishu:
Fang Lingshan, who traveled to Quan Di to find Lang Dianxian, searched for ten years, visiting many Quan Di tribes, but still could not find any news about Lang Dianxian.
The grasslands are vast and boundless.
While searching for medical treatment, Fang Lingshan also practiced medicine, treating the sick and injured herders, slaves, cattle, and sheep on the grasslands. Wherever she went, she brought the medicine of Dayong with her.
For ten years, the tribes large and small on the grasslands all knew that a goddess-like healer from the south was trekking across the vast grasslands, searching for another girl from the south.
Finally, in the thirteenth year, an elder of the Nieluo tribe gave Fang Lingshan a comic book-like booklet, saying, "I found this in a pile of corpses more than ten years ago. There are two southern girls in it."
The booklet contains the Lang family's traditional stick fighting techniques.
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Xu Qingyan's husband remarried three years after her death. He later passed the imperial examination with flying colors and had a bright future. He married into a high-ranking family in the capital. Lin Shaoyin and Xiao Fu would visit Xu Qingyan's children every year. After two years, they found that the children were being raised in a more and more chaotic way. Two years later, they were no longer allowed to see the children at all.
Lin Shaoyin and Xiao Fu felt this wouldn't do, so they went to find Xu Qingyan's parents. However, her parents were old and frail, and compared to their son-in-law's family, whose careers were soaring, they were powerless to help. Xiao Fu was so angry that she wanted to hire a wandering knight to snatch the child, but Lin Shaoyin persuaded her to stop. She then wrote to Chang Zhifang, who had been promoted to the position of Attendant in the Department of Incantation at the palace. Chang Zhifang said she would take care of it.
The Zhuyou school can also invoke the teachings of ghosts and spirits when necessary.
When Chang Zhifang went to her second wife's family home, she performed some divination and rituals. The old lady treated her as an honored guest. Not long after, Xu Qingyan's husband begged to give the child to his wife's family to raise.
Lin Shaoyin and Jin Xiaofu took the child.
Later, Lin Shaoyin, who never married, adopted an orphan from her clan who had lost his parents at a young age. Lin Shaoyin raised the child with great care, and the child showed a talent for studying. He first entered Baishan Academy, and later passed the imperial examinations and entered officialdom. From then on, four generations served as officials, six generations were successful candidates in the provincial examinations, and eight generations were successful candidates in the county-level examinations... After that, the family declined due to two invasions by the Quan Di people in the south, but a remarkable daughter named Yan was born.
Bai Shu's nephew, Bai Zhou, later became the headmaster of Baishan Academy. With medicine and Confucianism sharing a common origin, Bai Zhou devoted himself to scholarship, nurturing countless students. Because he called himself "Du Weng" (Crossing the River) in his later years, the school became known as the "Du Weng School." His great-grandson inherited his mantle and brought the Bai family's tradition of "healing the sick and helping the world" to education, helping many impoverished students. One of his students even took in and helped a poor student who nearly froze to death on his way to school.
The famous Prime Minister Xue Pingxian, grandfather of Princess Xue Lu, was a man who would become famous in later generations.
The Duweng School thus flourished and gave rise to the later Zhanghua Reform.
The flame of Zhanghua never went out. It was passed down from Princess Xue Lu, through Emperor Zhen, and then through the three emperors Wei Gong, Xu Lao, and Lin Changyi. Finally, it was born in Jiangnan and gave birth to Empress Lin Yan of the Yuan Dynasty, who "served the public good" and drove out the Tartars. The lost gem was saved.
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Twenty years after Bai Zhu entered Songyuan, Qiu Chuxin, Fang Lingshan, Jin Xiaofu, Chang Zhifang, and Lin Shaoyin successively sent Bai Zhu their completed manuscripts. Ten years later, Bai Zhu's "Collection of Medical Classics" was finally finalized and published.
The title "Medical Canon" was too grand, and Bai Zhu felt that he dared not use a single book to cover the entire medical field, so he renamed it "Collection of Female Physicians".
The complete work, *Collection of Female Physicians*, comprises twenty-two chapters, three hundred and ninety volumes, and over four million words.
"Compilation of Female Physicians: Children's Edition" - Author: Yang Huaishu, Editor: Bai Zhu;
"Compilation of Female Physicians: Pathogenesis" - Authors: Qiu Chuxin, Pan Cheng, Fang Lingshan, Bai Zhu; Editors: Bai Zhu, Yang Huaishu;
*Compilation of Female Physicians: Major Prescriptions* – Authors: Fang Lingshan, Qiu Chuxin; Editor: Bai Zhu;
"Compilation of Female Physicians: Minor Prescriptions" - Authors: Pan Cheng, Qiu Chuxin, Bai Zhu, Lang Dianxian, Yang Huaishu; Editors: Shen Yiming, Bai Zhu;
"Compilation of Female Physicians: Acupuncture Chapter" - Author: Xu Qingyan, Editors: Fang He, Bai Zhu; Ghostwriters: Lin Shaoyin, Jin Xiaofu;
"Compilation of Female Physicians: Wound Healing Chapter" - Authors: Su You, Lang Dianxian, Editor: Bai Zhu;
"Compilation of Female Physicians: Martial Arts Chapter" - Authors: Lang Dianxian, Su You; Editors: Fang Lingshan, Bai Shu;
"Compilation of Female Physicians: Processing Methods" - Author: Lin Shaoyin, Editor: Jin Xiaofu, Atractylodes macrocephala;
*Collection of Female Physicians: Incantation Methods* – Author: Chang Zhifang; Editor: Bai Zhu;
"Collection of Female Physicians: Supplementary Chapters" - Authors: Qiu Chuxin and Fang Lingshan, Editor: Bai Zhu;
"Compendium of Female Physicians: Materia Medica" - Authors: Jin Xiaofu, Fang Lingshan; Editors: Lin Shaoyin, Bai Zhu;
"Compilation of Female Physicians: Pricing Chapter" - Authors: Jin Xiaofu, Bai Zhu; Editor: Bai Zhu;
"Collection of Female Physicians: Medical Ethics" - Author: Jinxiu Chao, all female officials of the Imperial Medical Bureau.
The female officials of the Imperial Medical Bureau during the glorious reign of the Ming Dynasty were both dust of history and stars that created history.
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The book, comprising twenty-two chapters, three hundred and ninety volumes, and over three million words, is the greatest medical classic in the history of the Great Yong Dynasty, titled "Collection of Female Physicians." It was printed by Songyuan Renxin Pavilion, and the original copy was divided into three copies, which were respectively kept in the Imperial Medical Bureau of the Palace, Songyuan Wenjian Pavilion, and the Jin family of Yuanzhou, a wealthy merchant family in Jiangnan.
However, later, a disobedient descendant of the Jin family, unaware of the value of the ancient books, stole them and sold them to a merchant from Yanchuan.
The set hidden in the Imperial Medical Bureau of the palace was burned to the ground as the Di cavalry marched south.
The ten-day fire destroyed all the books in the palace library, including the "Collection of Female Physicians" and "Records of the Imperial Medical Bureau" from the Jinxiu Dynasty, the "Xihan Notes" and "Ten Memorials on Advising the State" from the Tongxin Dynasty, the "Collection of Questions and Answers" and "Commentary on Legal Articles" from the Xingye Dynasty, the "Essentials of Military Strategy" and "Comprehensive Mirror of Herbs" from the Shuangyue Dynasty, the "Collection of Zhanghua Terrace" and "Collection of Visiting the Secluded Place" from the Chaolu Dynasty, as well as "Selected Works of Du Weng" and "Debate on the Three Classics," among other great works...
Everything was destroyed in an instant.
All official documents and cultural relics must be swept away and left to rest.
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A cold moon shines brightly, illuminating people of all ages.
Only in the command center of Guanghan, high in the heavens, did Yun Fei casually take a picture of "Ladies of the Imperial Medical Bureau Enjoying Themselves on a Moonlit Night," freezing time and preserving their splendor forever.
Each generation has its own mission.
In 782, during the Ningxi era, the Red Eyebrows sect gradually rose to power in Haiqi Road. Within just three to five years, its followers exceeded one million. Twenty years later, it culminated in the "Red Eyebrows Rebellion," which swept across the country. From then on, numerous large and small rebel armies rose and fell, the emperor moved three times, and the Great Yong Dynasty was plunged into decades of turmoil.
The glorious era of all nations paying tribute came to an end, and beneath the layers of accumulated problems, the seeds of the Zhanghua Reform were sown in the early Ming Dynasty.
The waxing and waning of the sun and moon, the alternation of rise and fall.
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