During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when the women of the Chu Kingdom sought new life, they would always worship Shaosi Ming, a reticent and gentle goddess, who seemed to be the foil of the Great Si Ming, but in fact she was more loved by the people. However, what I want to introduce today is not the origin of this immortal, but to introduce a kind of obstetrician-gynecologist who is often forgotten by people in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the witch doctor.
The witch doctor system originated in the Yin Shang period, according to the oracle bones, people of all walks of life at that time often used witch doctors to treat diseases, they looked like jumping gods, but in fact they used spells with special medical effects and spells with psychological comforting effects to treat people. Why is there a witch doctor?
In fact, with the lines of Luo Daniang in "The Biography of the Female Doctor Ming Concubine", we can point out the reason for the emergence of the witch doctor system: people have no money, then they can only be treated by mean methods, and what pot bottom urine mud can be useful.
According to the "Spring and Autumn of the Lü Dynasty", Qi Huan believed that witch doctors could judge life and death and get rid of serious diseases, which was of course an exaggeration. On the contrary, because the methods of witch doctors rely on the immunity of patients, the error rate is still relatively high, and it is common to treat people. In such cases, the profession of witch doctor is often the object of verbal abuse, and even many celebrities have once regarded witch doctor as a profession that should not be engaged. For example, in the Analects, Confucius once said, "The southerners have a saying: Man is impermanent and cannot be a witch doctor." Good Husband", thinking that being a witch doctor is a shameful thing. For another example, the "Biography of Bian Que" also records the evaluation of witch doctors who are "confined to ghosts and gods, and cannot be compared with words". Although they treat people, they often receive insults.
This is still the case for male witch doctors, let alone witch doctors. Because of the convenience of the witch doctor's status, she often acts as a stable wife, taking on the responsibility of delivering children, treating gynecological diseases and performing fetal examinations on dead bodies. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, forensic science and gynecology in China have already sprouted. During the Warring States period, the government already had a letter that could serve as a report for the examination of criminal cases, and a lingshi and subordinates who were responsible for surveying the scene. Among them, the female subordinates who are responsible for examining the lower parts of women, checking whether women are pregnant, defiled, and sick, are called concubines, and are generally held by female slaves, who do noble work, but their treatment and social status are very low.
The status of female healers without a doctor-patient relationship is already so miserable, so what about the treatment of the living? The answer is equally tragic. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the matchmaker could still be honored as a Vake person, but the witch doctor who cured the disease and saved people was often criticized as a witch and a witch, and was despised. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, gynecological diseases were called belt diseases, and because they were related to the reproductive organs, it was common to face filth. Bian Que, a divine doctor in China, once treated gynecological diseases in the Zhao Kingdom. However, Bian Que is a male doctor after all, and there is only one, so most of the time, it is definitely witch doctors who treat women.
In the medical books of the Spring and Autumn Warring States period found in China, we can often see some clinical treatments and cases of gynecological diseases, including many filthy diseases such as menstrual diseases, in our modern view, these diseases are just words displayed on paper, but behind how many witch doctors are in the hard work of treatment that cannot be rewarded, perhaps you will say that they have obtained money, but we all know that dignity is more worthy of respect than money.
Everyone in the world likes ShaoSi Ming, loves Shao Si Ming, and is willing to give her respect and love, but where do they know that Shao Si Ming is right in front of them? When they raised their hands and raised their foreheads and praised the blessing of Shaosi Ming, it seemed that they would never see that face full of sweat and relief, this group of women who had been oppressed because of their peers, this group of women who had avenged their grievances for women and welcomed a new life were actually the most worthy of love and respect.