The first Korean TV series to be popular in China was "DaeChangjin", which was introduced by Hunan Satellite TV in the early years, which is actually based on the real history of the Joseon Dynasty and mentions a special profession: doctors.
What kind of profession is this? In fact, to put it bluntly, it is a female doctor.
In fact, although traditional Chinese Confucianism had the principle of "men and women are not intimate", it also believed that special circumstances could be adapted, such as men and women who saw a woman drowning and should lend a helping hand, and did not need to adhere to the basic morality of excessively rejecting physical contact and endangering life, otherwise it was no different from animals.
But the Joseon Dynasty was very excessive, men could not treat court women, and when court women were sick, they were mostly diagnosed by medical women and then prescribed by medical officers.
When did the Doctor Appear? The Earliest record of the Records of the Joseon Dynasty is that in March of the sixth year of Emperor Taejong (1406), a doctor and daughter had appeared, and at that time the young slave maids in the capital of Korea (which had been moved to Seoul) were trained.
At first, the number of medical women was very small, so the supply exceeded demand, and in June of the eighteenth year of Emperor Taizong (1418), Li Cao, based on the report of the Jishengyuan, told Emperor Taizong that there were only seven doctors and women in total, and only five of them were talented, and after being divided into various provinces, there was a serious shortage of manpower, so ten more girls under the age of thirteen should be taken from the various officials and concubines and sent to the Jishengyuan for medical training to make up for the deficiencies, and Emperor Taizong deeply agreed with this suggestion, so he gladly agreed.
According to the jishengyuan, Li Cao said: "There are seven doctors and women, five talents, and all the punishments are dispatched, and each one is insufficient." If there are ten beggars under the age of thirteen, what if there are ten beggars?" From there. - Records of the Joseon Dynasty
During the heyday of the Joseon Dynasty, during the reign of Sejong, the education of medical women began to be formalized, and in the fifth year of Sejong (1423), officials began to serve as lecturers, teaching books such as "Thousand Characters", "Filial Piety", and "Orthodox Customs" to slaves from all over the world to ensure that they could have basic moral ethics and the ability to read and write Chinese characters.
In December of sejong's fifth year (1423), Reikog decreed that two intelligent girls over the age of 10 and under 15 should be selected from among the local officials and sent to the Franciscan Temple for training, and in December of sejong's sixteenth year (1434), another amendment was made: it was stipulated that slaves under the age of 30 and over 12 in the central government office, the daughters of prostitutes, and local officials should be selected, and the medical daughters of local officials and concubines should study medicine in the local government houses.
So, how do these people survive? They have state support, but they do not have Qilu, they mainly rely on the imperial court's "rice" to survive, but this kind of rice is only the monarch's temporary preference, not customized, so the income of the doctor's daughter is not fixed.
Sometimes bad luck, even broken, sejong nineteenth year (1437), famine in Korea, the number of rice handed over by each province sharply decreased, and the cost of private relief to the victims was very large, so the government in March of the same year to Sejong, requesting a suspension of the gift of rice to more than 530 people, such as dancers, prostitutes and doctors, Sejong immediately agreed.
"This year, there are few nano-counts on each road, and the cost of relief for the hungry people is more, please stop the dancing children, Tang? More than 530 blind people, prostitutes, doctors, and music workers gave rice. "From there. - Records of the Joseon Dynasty
But this is obviously inappropriate, after all, the medical women are also considered state officials, there is a establishment, the first can not let them be too difficult; the second management needs to be standardized, Wenzong first year (1451) in April, the relevant institutions reported this problem, every year to give each medical woman a stone of white rice, Wenzong immediately agreed, from then on, the medical women finally have a relatively stable income.
In the fifth year of Sejo (1459), the Huimin Bureau (renamed Huimin Bureau) was established in the eleventh year of Sejo, and the canonical medical supervisor (training medical officials and doctors, preserving archives, and preserving medicinal herbs and medicinal supplies) was responsible for the training of medical women's education, stipulating that the books that doctors and women must read every month were evaluated by examinations, and those who had excellent results could be awarded The Gonglu, and those who did not have satisfactory results would be very unlucky to be placed as tea mothers (a kind of official maid of the Joseon Dynasty). They were responsible for the work of the official government tea and retinue, mostly from the Untouchable class. ), only when there is a slight improvement in medical skills will there be a chance to resume work.
In general, the management of doctors and women in the early Joseon Dynasty was gradually formalized, but there was a period of deterioration in the middle, that is, when the famous tyrant Yan Shanjun was in power, Yan Shanjun actually ordered that doctors and women must learn the way of service from official prostitutes and participate in various palace banquets as waiters, many of whom were forced to become medical prostitutes and become the playthings of two classes of nobles.
A rare brutal monarch of the Joseon Dynasty, Yeonsan Jun
This is really a liturgical collapse, and the ladies who see the doctor do not let go. Therefore, Emperor Zhongzong immediately abolished this rule after his actions, and in February of the fifth year (1510), he ordered that medical women should be forbidden to attend all kinds of banquets in the palace, and if they violated it, they would be handed over to the Si Xianfu for judgment. Similar decrees were issued many times, but this situation was not eradicated. These officials, hedonistic things will never be spared.
Until the two dynasties of Yingzu and Zhengzu, in addition to shouldering medical work, the doctor and daughter still had to accompany two classes of nobles to the banquet, so they were also called "pharmacy prostitutes".
However, during the Zhongzong period, there was a famous doctor, that is, the TV series "Xu Changjin", who was named the king's attending physician in 18 years of Zhongzong, giving the name "Dae Changjin", and was the only female doctor in lee Korean history to heal the king. You know, the king is generally treated by a doctor, but there is not much historical information about the long and modern times. However, it can be speculated that its medical skills are extremely high.
After the Sino-Japanese War, Korea was controlled by Japan, the feudal era was abolished, and the medical system was abolished.
In fact, there were similar professions in ancient China, and in the Ming Dynasty of China, the female physician who healed court women in the court was called a doctor. The famous doctor was Tan Yunxian, who wrote the book "Miscellaneous Words of Female Doctors".