Why did people in ancient times call doctors "Langzhong"?

In the ancient times of our country, due to the non-development of medical technology, people were often sick. It was often considered a god, so they would ask the guide to push the evil and use witchcraft to cure the disease, then people in the stage of witch doctor. We can also see the philosophy of medicine in two traditional Chinese characters, doctor, one of which is the word "witch".

Until the beginning of the Spring and Autumn period, worship, doctors gradually separated, and specialists began. Even so, people would not be called doctors, but there were a five flowers, such as apricot, hanging pot, too medical and so on.

The first thing of doctors appeared in the Tang Six Canons, which was completed during the time of Emperor Tang Xuanzong in the Tang Dynasty. There is a text: "doctors forty people", but here the doctor is not what we call today, but refers to some study of medicine. Students.

During the Song Dynasty, with the unprecedented development of our society, medical careers had a high ship. At that time, the Imperial Court set up a three-member medical bureau and yujiao houses with officials in charge of the court's medical care.

In the civil world, the court also established a special institution for the treatment of diseases, called the Bureau of Beneficence, and the court sent officials responsible for the treatment of the people. Among them, responsible for the treatment of patients according to the medical nature of the treatment, divided into food practitioners, disease doctors, Kanashi doctors, responsible for the safety of food, treatment of diseases and injuries to the people.

From this time, people called doctors "doctor" or "Lang Zhong" career. "Dafa" and "Lang Zhong" are the original ancient official names, how synonymous with doctor?

In fact, it's quite simple. Before the Song Dynasty, Dafa and Langzhong were the official positions. Each dynasty was used, but the use of each dynasty was not standardized to an official step. In the Song Dynasty, for example, there were six (, family, courtesy, soldiers), punishment, work), the first level of all ministries, the second level of officials called attendants, the third level of officials called Lang Zhong, the fourth level of officials called employees.

While the preparation of Thai hospitals in the courts is generally six levels, but it is not the same, after all, in order to differentiate, the first level of officials of the doctor is called a doctor, the second level of officials called Lang Zhong.

Later, with the passage of time, people in order to express their respect for doctors, began to invoke the names "Dafa" and "Lang Zhong" for doctors, and will use this title to the present.

One of the more interesting phenomena is that in our country's folklore among the Northerners, a doctor is a "doctor", and the word "Da" is pronounced [dài], with the "official position" and the "doctor" in the South. The difference between the "doctor [dàfū]" in the south is called doctor "Langzhong".

Additionally, there is another proverb that says, the ancients called the doctor to see the doctor, and in Jiangsu doctor's doctor is called Lang, the so-called "Jiangsu Lang Zhong" said, and there is no "Jiangsu Dafa" call.

In contrast, "Jiangsu Langzhong" can generally charge appropriate treatment fees according to the family's situation, while some poor people do not even have to pay for medical care, making most Langzhong in the countryside enjoy a good reputation. In multiple versions of the "Nine Streams" sort, doctors have steadily come in at the second place, after the field, in the order of ancient Chinese professions. Ancient readers did not volunteer "not good, this is a good doctor" (Fan Zhongyu)?

Today, the title "Lang Zhong" is relatively rare, the word "doctor" is still used to call the hospital doctor. After all, the word "doctor" is a first-class official of the Trian Medical Bureau.