Baolu Tianxing

"What is this? Is it really a bronze figure from Shaolin Temple?" Kong Si exclaimed, leaned over, and looked around for a spring mechanism. Maybe it was the Yi Jin Jing!

"Sister Immortal, oh, Uncle Immortal!" Wu Chen actually didn't know what it was, but it shouldn't have anything to do with martial arts practitioners. No matter what, he saw that Mr. Li's appearance should not be ordinary.

Mr. Li didn't answer, his mustache trembled with excitement, he put his hands on the bronze figurine and caressed it for a long time, his appearance was slightly inferior to that of a long-lost lover, Wu Chen and the others looked at it for a while. cold!

When the old man calmed down a bit, he asked Wu Chen to help him, reassembled the bronze figurine, and carried it upstairs to the hall. This time, he was much more careful than before.

Before the people arrived, Li Lao shouted at the top of his voice: "Local tycoon! Come out with my brother to see the national treasure!"

"What is it, yelling!" Elder Li was impatient. Hearing the roar, he stood up and replied loudly, and greeted him outside the door. He saw Elder Li walking ahead with his head held high like a victorious general in his class. Wu Chen Then Kong Si carried the bronze figure and followed behind, while Xu Shaodong and Bai He walked last.

"Tiansheng bronze man of acupuncture and moxibustion!" Mr. Li didn't hide it this time, and announced an explosive news as soon as he entered the door!

"Although I haven't identified it carefully, I can be 90.00% sure that it is it!"

"What?!" Even Old Liu couldn't sit still anymore and stood up.Watching Wu Chen and Kong Si put the bronze figure back on the desk.The copper color is moist, and it looks like a half-naked man lying down.

"You mean the Bronze Man of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Song Tiansheng!" Elder Li confirmed loudly, seeing that Mr. Li nodded, several old men walked over and surrounded the bronze man, very excited.

"Isn't it just a bronze man? Even if it's more exquisite, how dare it be called a national treasure?" Kong Si had never seen these old men so excited. He wanted to ask Wu Chen, but he didn't think he would know, so he simply asked From Xu Shaodong.

"I seem to have heard of it, but I don't know much about it." Xu Shaodong also didn't know much about it. After working for a while, he was a little thirsty, so he picked up the teapot, and several people drank it vigorously, waiting for the old men to calm down.

No wonder these old people are excited!This is a serious and lost national treasure. I didn't expect it to reappear today!

Acupuncture has been an important part of Chinese medicine since ancient times and has a history of thousands of years.The earliest record should be that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the prince of the Guo State suddenly suffered from a "corpse Jue" and his life was dying.Bian Que, a genius doctor, entered the palace and treated the prince's meridians and acupoints with moxa sticks, which brought the prince back from the dead and left a legendary story of acupuncture and moxibustion.

Before the Northern Song Dynasty, doctors mainly used acupuncture and moxibustion to treat diseases according to the meridian points of the human body specified in the "Emperor Mingtang Jing" of the Tang Dynasty.However, the "Emperor's Ming Tang Jing" was lost due to the war in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, which resulted in the loss of standards for acupuncture and moxibustion.

In order to re-establish national standards for acupuncture and moxibustion points, in the fourth year of Song Tiansheng, Song Renzong ordered the Medical Academy to re-compile the standards.The Medical and Official Academy entrusted this task to Wang Weiyi, a famous medical scientist. After three years of hard work, he completed the "Newly Cast Bronze Figure of Acupuncture and Moxibustion" and engraved it on five stone tablets.

Because Song Renzong believed that "communicating the heart is not as good as meeting the eyes, writing words is not as good as the form of the case", so he ordered again to cast acupuncture bronze figures according to the "Newly Cast Bronze Figures of Acupuncture and Moxibustion", and Wang Weiyi was still responsible for the design, and the imperial court organized skilled craftsmen from all over the country , for casting.In the end, two identical acupuncture bronze figures were finally cast, and later generations called them "Song Tiansheng Acupuncture Bronze Figures".

"Even if it's an important thing in the history of medicine, it doesn't have to be like this?" Kong Si listened for a long time. At most, it belongs to the treasure of the industry. Besides, today, I'm afraid it has more commemorative significance than practical significance.

That's not it!Elder Li was still excited, so he taught Kong Si a lesson. This young man doesn't know the preciousness of national treasures!

The Tiansheng Bronze Man was cast into two parts, the front and the back, and the special plug was used to disassemble and assemble, which fully reflected the extremely high human aesthetics and casting technology at that time.The names of 354 acupoints are marked, and all acupoints are pierced with small holes, and there are wood-carved viscera and bones in the body cavity.

Therefore, it can be applied not only to acupuncture, but also to anatomy.Western medicine, including many people who don't know it in China, has always criticized Chinese medicine for its lack of anatomical theory. In fact, at least until the reign of Song Tiansheng when this bronze figure was cast, Chinese people have accurately grasped the internal structure of the human body, but they only focus more on meridians.

Theoretically, it proves that Chinese medicine, including meridian acupuncture and moxibustion, is based on physical anatomy, and it does not appear out of thin air as later generations criticized. "Song Tiansheng Acupuncture Bronze Figure" is the earliest acupuncture bronze figure cast in China and even in the world. It created a precedent in the world for using bronze figures as human models for acupuncture teaching.

In addition to theory, Tongren also has a strange practicality.In the Song Dynasty, acupuncture and moxibustion medical examinations were held every year in the medical academy. During the examination, mercury was injected into the body of the bronze human body, and yellow wax was painted on the body surface to completely cover the meridians and acupoints.Candidates can only place needles based on experience.Once the acupuncture point is accurately pierced, the mercury will flow out of the acupuncture point.In medical history books, this peculiar phenomenon is called "the needle enters and the mercury comes out".

After the acupuncture and moxibustion bronze figurines were cast, one was placed in the imperial hospital for medical practitioners to observe and practice.The other one is placed in the Renji Hall of Daxiangguo Temple in the capital for common people to visit. "Zisheng Xunfeng" has become one of the eight scenic spots in Bianjing.

It is a pity that during the Jingkang Rebellion, the two bronze figures disappeared. It is said that one of them was looted by the Jin army, and the other may have been taken out of Bianjing and flowed into Xiangyang Mansion. Not long after Zhao Gou became the throne in the Southern Song Dynasty , Zhao Nanzhong sent the "Bronze Man of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of Song Tiansheng" to the court of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In 1232 AD, the Yuan Dynasty army attacked Bianjing, the capital of the Kingdom of Jin.Two years later, the Kingdom of Jin perished, and the Yuan Dynasty took the opportunity to send envoys to the Southern Song Dynasty to intimidate and ask for the Bronze Acupuncture Master.Fearing the power of the Yuan Dynasty, the court of the Southern Song Dynasty had to donate the "Song Tiansheng Bronze Man of Acupuncture and Moxibustion".

Later, because the "Song Tiansheng Bronze Man of Acupuncture and Moxibustion" has gone through more than 200 years, it has been "destroyed for a long time" and urgently needs to be repaired.In 1260 A.D., Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, summoned skilled craftsmen from all over the world, and finally ordered the Nepalese craftsman Anigo to restore the "Bronze Man of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of Song Tiansheng".After 4 years of hard work, Anigo was finally restored as new, so he was rewarded and given an official by Kublai Khan.

The steles of "Song Tiansheng Bronze Figure of Acupuncture and Moxibustion" and "Bronze Figure of Acupoint Acupuncture and Moxibustion" were moved from Bianjing to Sanhuang Temple in Dadu, Yuan Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang captured Yuan Dadu and established the Ming Dynasty.At this time, the stone steles of "Bronze Acupuncture Figure of Song Tiansheng" and "Acupoint Acupuncture Diagram of Newly Cast Bronze Figure" are still placed in Sanhuang Temple.

By the eighth year of Zhengtong in the Ming Dynasty, the "Bronze Man of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of Song Tiansheng" that had gone through more than 400 years was already dim, and the names of acupoints were also blurred.Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty ordered to cast an acupuncture bronze figure modeled on the "Tiansheng Acupuncture Bronze Figure of Song Dynasty".

At the same time, it imitated Song Tiansheng's stone carving "Bronze Man Acupoint Acupuncture and Moxibustion Illustrated Classic". The "Ming Orthodox Acupuncture and Moxibustion Bronze Figure" was placed in the Yaowang Temple and kept until the Qing Dynasty.

During the war, the "Ming Orthodox Acupuncture Bronze Man" was damaged in the head, and it was not repaired until the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty.

Later, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded and looted a large number of national treasures. Now it can be confirmed that the "Ming Dynasty Orthodox Acupuncture Bronze Man" is hidden in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. However, this "Song Tiansheng Acupuncture Bronze Man" has disappeared. I did not expect it to appear here today. One!