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The biggest QING in the world
（106centimetre） |
In the book of《 Records of the Historian 》,
there is a vividely-depicted story in which a famous practitioner of Chinese medicine
in ancient China called Bian Que of the Warring States Period succeeded in curing
the crown prince of the State Guo of his fatal illness with Bian-healing skill,
in conjunction with other art of healing. However, according to 《 The Books of
the Later Han Dynasty ( 940 - 950 A.D. )·Collected Biographies of Hua Tuo
( 141 - 203 A.D.)①》, three medical skills, that is, acupuncture, moxibustion and
Chinese herbal medical treatment in the traditional Chinese medical science still
kept flourishing to the times when Huo Tuo was alive, leaving Bian-healing skill
gradually lost and finally unknown. Fu Qian② said: " As in the last phase
of an age or in the times of upheaval, no desirable stone of fine quality is available
any longer and, it is a matter of course that it should be substituted by iron."
Then what is the desirable stone of fine quality ? The book of the traditional
Chinese medical science《 Nan Jing 》says: " If attacked by pathogen, cattle
would fall into swelling and go down with chills and fever. Then Bian-healing
skill is hired to serve as an efficient way of medical treatment. " What
is described here by Bian- healing skill is patient with medical treatment using
the Bian-healing stone which functions both as permeating and dispersing like
" invisible needle " having a great effect on the deeper part of human
body. As this kind of stone material, by which medical instruments for Bian healing
were made, ran short later on, the ancient Chinese Bian-healing skill for medical
treatment and health protection, therefore, was gradually not heard about and
gradually unknown in the medical community. A well-known scholar of the Tang Dynasty,
Yan Shigu ( 581 - 645 A.D.), who was an expert in interpretation of words in ancient
books, said: " In ancient times of China we had Bian-healing skill to cure
diseases and nowadays this kind of skill has died out." Note:
① A legendary surgeon at the end of the Han Dynasty
② A scholar in the
study of Confucian classics in the Eastern Han Dynasty |
