Bo [bó] Prefecture is located in the northwest of Anhui Province, on the banks of the Edo [Guō] River, bordering Henan Province on three sides.
The history of Bozhou can be described as very long, as early as 3600 years ago, Shang Tang built the capital here, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, the King of Chuping built a city here, thus opening up the thousand-year civilization here.
The hometown of the divine doctor, the capital of Chinese medicine
In this place of Bozhou, there were many celebrities, the most famous of which was Cao Cao's family, which was recorded in the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Shu, and Emperor Wu of the Three Kingdoms: "Emperor Taizuwu, Pei Guo ren ren. Among them, "谯" is the ancient name of Bozhou.
At the same time as Cao Cao, there was another famous figure here, this person was the divine doctor Hua Tuo, whose influence on Bozhou can still be deeply felt in the ancient city to this day.
Bozhou has a resounding name, called "Chinese Medicine Capital".
This is not a false name, south of the ancient city of Bozhou, there is a Chinese herbal medicine market, which is the world's largest Chinese herbal medicine distribution center and price formation center.
This market, covering an area of 1,000 acres, more than 2,600 varieties of Chinese medicinal materials, so to speak, there is no Chinese herbal medicine that cannot be bought here, ginseng, deer antler velvet, cattle yellow, mountain ginseng, Wangjiangnan, Liu Jinu... What to do;
What's more, there are no Chinese herbal medicines that can't be sold here, with an annual transaction volume of more than 40 billion yuan, and the passenger flow is too large for you to imagine.
The name of Bozhou's "Chinese Medicine Capital" should start from Hua Tuo.
How was Hemp Boiling Powder born?
Hua Tuo lived in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, an era of great turmoil, and the trauma of the war was extremely tragic. As a doctor, he heals people every day, and no one knows the suffering of the people better than he does.
Due to the lack of effective pain relief means, many injured people in the treatment process because they can not withstand severe pain and wail, the doctor is benevolent, in order to let people suffer less pain, Hua Tuo has been looking for a cure for pain.
One day, a friend came to him and told him that he had eaten a wild fruit in the mountains by mistake, which caused him to become numb, and he slept all night before waking up.
Hearing this information, Hua Tuo was very excited, and the wild fruits that made people tingle could be applied to analgesia?
In order to verify the efficacy of the drug, Hua Tuo decided to try the "fruit" by example, the fruit was just handed to the mouth, but was stopped by the son, saying that the father is a doctor, carrying the lives of countless people, or I will try the medicine.
Although Hua Tuo couldn't bear it, his son was right, so he let his son try the medicine, one, two... More than a dozen fruits fell into the belly, the son was unconscious, Hua Tuo exhausted all methods, and did not save his son.
The sacrifice of his son could not be in vain, Hua Tuo endured the pain of losing his son and continued to experiment repeatedly, and finally tried the dosage and efficacy of the fruit, and the world's earliest anesthetic was born.
Hua Tuo named this anesthetic Ma Boiling Powder in honor of his son, Boiling Er, who died to try the drug.
Since then, Hua Tuo has introduced wild Chinese medicinal materials into the field for planting, and the people of Bozhou have followed suit and planted various Chinese medicinal materials in their own fields.
Nowadays, Bozhou people can still see a variety of Chinese medicinal materials in their lives, fragrant flowers planted in the yard to prevent mosquito bites, cool and bright cold mixed thorn mustard on the table, blood pressure and lipid-lowering vegetables, Chinese herbal medicine has long become a part of everyone's daily life.
A flower drama building, a not thin past
"The people are not thin, everyone is generous." This is a local saying, although blunt, but it is not lost in reality.
There is a flower opera building with a history of more than 300 years in Bozhou City, which was funded and built by two Jinshan merchants in that year, with exquisite carving and extreme luxury, and is one of the landmark buildings in Bozhou City.
How could a merchant from the Jinshan region build such a luxurious theater building here?
It turned out that in the early Qing Dynasty, two merchants from the Jin and Shaanxi regions came to Bozhou to do the business of reselling medicinal materials.
However, the heavens did not give strength, the continuous rainy weather caused the medicinal herbs to become moldy, becoming worthless, the two people lost blood, and more importantly, the money of both of them was borrowed.
The battered businessman wanted to die, and was looking for a short sight when an old man passed by and saved the two.
After learning the reason why the two were looking for death, the old man gave some consolation and sent the money from the sale of the sheep, instructing the two to take the money to turn around, and not to do stupid things again.
The young man who returned to God stayed in Bozhou with the silver money given by the old man, started from a small business, worked hard, and became a big drug dealer in the city.
After the development of the two people, want to repay the savior of the year, but searched all over Bozhou City and did not find the old man who sold sheep that year, so they built a flower theater building for the people of Bozhou City to watch the play.
Thinking about it carefully, the old man who sells sheep should not be a rich family, and the money from selling sheep may be his livelihood for several months, but he did not hesitate to give it to two foreigners who did not know him at all, "The people are not thin, everyone is generous", which is vividly reflected in the old man.
The people are not thin, and everyone is generous
Today, more than three hundred years later, the simple and generous temperament of Bozhou people is still very distinct.
At the beginning of 2020, the covid-19 outbreak struck, and the people of the whole country suffered unprecedented challenges.
On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, just two days before the Chinese New Year's Eve, Lu Yuxiang, a bozhou drug dealer, suddenly received a call for help from Jingzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, urgently needing six tons of Chinese herbal medicine.
At that time, Lu Yuxiang's own inventory was only two tons, and it was close to the end of the year, and the medicinal materials market had already been on holiday, and there was no place to buy it if he wanted to buy it.
But the epidemic is so big that the frontline medical staff are racing against life, and he told himself that he must not drop the chain at this time, so he tried to contact other drug dealers.
When the pharmacist received the call, they heard that it was to send medicinal materials to the hospital, they did not say a word, immediately opened the warehouse, indicating that the medicinal materials in the warehouse were pulled at will, and the good ones were pulled.
After six tons of medicinal materials were gathered, they were immediately sent to Jingzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
The total market price of these six tons of medicinal herbs is nearly 400,000 yuan, but none of the merchants have raised money, and then the epidemic has stabilized, and the drug dealers in Bozhou have only symbolically collected some capital.
In their view, medicinal herbs are the things that cure diseases and save people, and it is their duty to help each other if one party has difficulties in seeking help.
In the process of fighting the new crown epidemic, traditional Chinese medicine has played a huge role, and Bozhou pharmaceutical companies have also silently done their duty behind their backs, always cooperating with the "war epidemic" in the front to provide protection for traditional Chinese medicine to fight the epidemic.
The people are not thin, and everyone is generous. Tonight at 20:00, lock cctv-4, get to know a bozhou with medicinal fragrance, and get to know an ancient city with a thick road.
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Broadcast content: "Bozhou - Chinese Medicine Capital HouDao Lishi"
Broadcast time: January 14, 2021 (Thursday) 20:00
Broadcast channel: CCTV-4 Chinese international channel
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