Chapter 57 Professor Zhao Hanwen
The teaching buildings of other departments are bustling with activity, but the teaching building of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine is exceptionally deserted, giving people a sense of desolation. If it were not for the cleanliness, it might even make people feel desolate.
When you walk into the teaching building, you can smell a faint herbal aroma. It's not the bitter smell you get when you boil medicine to treat an illness, but rather a refreshing fragrance that is quite pleasant.
Lin Nuan and Shen Baozhu climbed up to the second floor together and saw the first house at the corner. The sign on the wall said "Pharmacy". Only then did they realize where the unique fragrance of medicinal herbs came from.
The Chinese medicinal materials that Lin Nuan had seen in her later life were all processed. Through the glass windows of the pharmacy, she could see that in addition to a wall of antique medicine cabinets, there were also many flower pots with various grass-like plants, which made the pharmacy look full of vitality. The fragrance mixed with the aroma of medicine should be emitted by those plants.
The classroom is in the second room, with the words "Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine" written on it.
There were more than a dozen people sitting scattered in the large classroom, some sitting together in groups of three or two, and some sitting alone.
When someone noticed Lin Nuan and Shen Baozhu standing at the door, they turned their heads one after another and looked at the door where they were.
One of them asked, "Are you two the freshmen of this year's college?"
Lin Nuan and Shen Baozhu both nodded in response.
"Yes, hello, brother."
"Yes, hello, brother."
After confirming, the man spoke again, "You two can just find a seat anywhere. We have very few students in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and we all have classes together. The professor will assign us learning tasks according to different levels. The professor will be here soon, so hurry up and find a seat!"
The two of them just found a seat by the window and sat down.
Looking at the books that other people were holding, which were thicker than the Xinhua Dictionary and were flipping through them carefully, and some were holding mannequins with acupuncture points all over their bodies and studying them seriously, the two of them also silently took out the new books they had received from their small backpacks.
This is an elementary introductory book for understanding medicinal materials.
Since everyone else was studying, it was inappropriate for the two of them to talk in private, so they just started reading.
About ten minutes later, five or six more students came, three of whom were freshmen. This means that there are only five freshmen in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine this time.
One can’t help but sigh: the talent pool in Traditional Chinese Medicine is dwindling!
Having just gone through that turbulent era, it is really not that easy even if we want to rise again.
Lin Nuan sometimes wondered, if she had traveled through time before coming to this era, and traveled to the era of cultivation, there should have been alchemists in that era. If the Chinese medicine of this era could be as effective as the elixirs made in the era of cultivation, there would be no need to worry that it would not be able to flourish in the future.
You know, a powerful elixir can bring the dead back to life.
Of course, this is just a thought. I was a little obsessed with reading novels.
She thought again about her own space and the spiritual spring water in it. She had personally experienced the therapeutic effects of the water and felt that nothing was impossible in this world.
When the class bell rang, a vigorous old man named Ming walked in. His hair was already gray, his back was very straight, he had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a few wrinkles on his face, but his face was ruddy and he looked to be in his fifties or sixties.
After he came in, he first took a look at the new students who came to register. There was a trace of loneliness in his eyes, which might be because of the current situation of traditional Chinese medicine. No one knows.
"I saw some new faces. I am very happy that you are here. I am glad that you have chosen Chinese medicine among many choices. Our Chinese medicine has been passed down for thousands of years. It is an ancient medical system that contains infinite wisdom and profound knowledge. Studying medicine is a very difficult thing. I believe that you choose to study medicine because you love it from the bottom of your heart. In the past, many people had many misunderstandings about Chinese medicine, but now the clouds have been cleared and the moon has been seen.
Since you have chosen this path, I hope that no matter what happens in the future, you can remain steadfast and not give up, have the spirit of hard work, and pass on our ancient Chinese medicine culture."
After the old man finished his passionate speech, he wrote his name on the blackboard - Zhao Hanwen.
His self-introduction was simple, except for his name and his identity as a teacher, he didn't say much else.
Lin Nuan felt familiar with the name on the blackboard. After closing the book in her hand, she saw the name of the author at the back of the book and realized why it looked so familiar. It turned out that the introductory textbook on basic knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine in her hand was compiled by the old man standing on the podium.
In fact, after she received the textbook, she went home and took a look at it. The more she read, the more fascinated she became, and she felt a thirst for knowledge.
For the first class for freshmen, Zhao Hanwen did not say anything. He just asked them to learn all the basic introductory knowledge of medicinal herbs, and also to remember the effects and uses of each herb. The time limit was one month, and after one month he would conduct random checks on them one by one.
During this period, he would also teach everyone some simple knowledge of pharmacology, but for the seniors who had already taken a year of classes before, (you read that correctly, all seniors), this knowledge was too simple, so they were assigned other learning tasks. However, no matter what kind of knowledge it was, it was helpful to review the old and learn the new, so some seniors still stayed to listen to the lectures.
After a brief understanding, I found that although there are not many students in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are five or six teachers, all of whom are famous Chinese medicine practitioners.
They were all affected during that turbulent era, but now they have been rehabilitated, and the school has re-employed them, and has reopened its Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
As a newbie who has just started, what I have to do every day is to learn about medicinal herbs. Not only do I need to know what they look like when they are growing, but I also need to know the entire process from picking to preparing the herbs, their efficacy and uses. In short, there are so many things to learn.
Lin Nuan felt like a sponge, constantly absorbing knowledge. The more she learned, the more she wanted to explore more mysteries.
A month passed in a flash. Lin Nuan returned home and found a black car parked at the door. It was not the car at home. She knew at a glance that there were guests at home.
Every day when she returned home and opened the door, the first person to greet her was her younger brother Dudu, who would walk with his short legs and greet her word by word in a not-so-fluent baby-voiced Chinese.
What’s different today is that there are two pink and tender little white balls following Dudu.
Three chubby little guys, each stepping on their short legs, kicking backwards quickly, ran over with giggles.
Dudu hugged Lin Nuan's legs and shouted, "Sister, Ou missed you so much."
(Friends, you need to wait for the second chapter. I don’t know what happened today. The second review has not passed and is stuck there. But I will keep an eye on the situation and solve the problem as soon as possible.)