Zhang Zhongjing was a famous Chinese medicine practitioner at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and was revered as the "Holy Doctor". Zhang Zhongjing's book "On Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" is so famous that many Chinese medicine universities are now studying his works.
But Zhang Zhongjing was not born in a medical family, so why did he choose to study medicine? There are two reasons for this.
1. Influenced by the family
Zhang Zhongjing was influenced by his family from an early age and developed an interest in medicine. Zhang Zhongjing was born into a family of eunuchs at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but by this time his family was already weakened, but he had many books in his family.
Zhang Zhongjing was influenced by his father since he was a child and loved to read, so he read a lot of books, but eventually became very interested in medical books.
Because he saw the story of Bian Que practicing medicine in the book, he felt that Bian Que was very remarkable, so he decided to study medicine, so the influence of the family laid the foundation for Zhang Zhongjing to study medicine.
2. Sympathize with the people
Zhang Zhongjing loved medicine when he was a child, but he made up his mind to study medicine from the age of 10. When Zhang Zhongjing was born, the government at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was very chaotic, and there were scenes of soldiers and horses everywhere, and the lives of the people were very painful.
Moreover, the epidemic at that time was also very serious, and at the same time, the imperial court was fighting for power and profit, and it did not care about the lives of the people at all, and many people died in the epidemic. After Zhang Zhongjing saw such a situation, he was very sympathetic to the people, so he decided to study medicine to save people.
Zhang Zhongjing saw that the suffering people felt empathy, and felt that it was useless to be an official at that time, that it could not help the people, and that if he studied medicine, he could also cure diseases and save people, which would have a practical effect.
Judging from the process of Zhang Zhongjing making the decision to study medicine, it proves that what industry a person can engage in when he grows up is related to his experience as a child, so parents cannot ignore the reasonable guidance of their children from an early age, because this may affect the child's career for a lifetime.
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(Author: Chopin, Image: From the Internet)