Speaking of Hua Tuo, many people have no better impression of him than the reputation of "divine doctor" and "magic hand returning the soul". The divine doctor Hua Tuo has left a piece of his magic recipe in the hearts of many people, making everyone rely on this divine doctor from the bottom of their hearts and feel that he is omnipotent. In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Cao Cao could not be solved because he had been suffering from headaches, so he invited Hua Tuo, a famous folk doctor, to heal himself, and after some visits, Cao Cao asked Hua Tuo if he could heal? Hua Tuo thought about it and said that he could be healed, but he had to pry his head open and scrape the root of the disease inside to heal it. Later, the suspicious Cao Cao felt that Hua Tuo was teasing himself, and only then did he cure Hua Tuo of his sins.
Regarding this small allusion, many people asked at the time, what would happen if Hua Tuo said that he could not be treated? If Cao Cao didn't kill Hua Tuo, what would happen to Hua Tuo? This series of stories and anecdotes is talked about by us, but while watching the story, we ignore the question - is Hua Tuo a real figure in history?
The answer is most likely "non-existent".
Because in the end, no matter how to say, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is still a novel and story. In order to make the story more dramatic and more readable, Luo Guanzhong can be said to add oil and vinegar, and at the same time delete many things, so that the readability of the whole novel is greatly improved. Although "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is not a correct history that can be examined, it is also a qualified historical novel, but if you want to treat it as a correct history, it is better to have more references.
It is not that because it is from the novel, Hua Tuo does not exist. In fact, hua Tuo is very likely to not exist in history, because there are actually very few historical materials about him. Speaking of which, in fact, some of the records of the history do not sound so reliable, such as the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, which writes Hua Tuo more than in the novel, and it is actually unrealistic to want to reach that level in that era, unless the image of Hua Tuo is artificially deified.
In any case, whether there is a real Hua Tuo in the Historical Mountain, in fact, Hua Tuo is not the first surgeon in the history of the world. We may be most familiar with Hua Tuo, for example, his invention of "Hemp Boiling Dispersion", perhaps it can be said that he was the first person to create painless surgery, but it was by no means the first person who pioneered surgery. The effect of hemp boiling dispersion is anesthesia, which is used to reduce the pain of the wound of the skin and flesh when the patient is cut open, making the surgical operation sound less terrible.
As for giving Guan Yu "scraping bones to cure poison" and Guan Yunchang playing chess while warming wine, there is no such thing in the right history. In order to deify the image of Guan Yu a little, the author also pulled Hua Tuo over as a cushion back. The earliest surgical operation in human history is ancient Egypt, the eighteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt, whether it is the founding time or the development of civilization is earlier than China, as one of the four major ancient civilizations of ancient Egypt has this technology a long time ago, in fact, it is not surprising.
If you want to know more interesting history, it is interesting to pay attention to that kind of history.