Ancient Writings About Magpie

The Story of Bian Magpie's Medical Skills

During the Spring and Autumn Period, ever since the story of Bian Magpie's meeting Duke Huan to see and know what was wrong with him spread, his medical reputation spread throughout the kingdoms. One day, King Wen of Wei asked Bian Magpie, "All three brothers in your family practiced medicine, and all of them are skilled in the art of healing, but who is actually the best at healing?"

Bian Magpie replied, "The eldest brother is the best, the middle brother is the second best, and only I am the worst of the three brothers."

King Wen was surprised and asked, "Then why are you the most famous of the three brothers in your family?"

Bian Magpie replied, "My eldest brother cured diseases by treating them before the onset of the disease, and since people in general didn't know that he was able to observe the disease before it started, remove the original cause of the disease in time, and silently accumulate the Xuan De in an invisible way. Therefore, his medical skills were unknown to others, and his fame could not spread, and only the people in our family knew about these skills of his.

And my middle brother's medical skills and treatments are best at treating patients at the beginning of their illnesses, and removing them in time before they become a scourge. The general public thought he could only treat minor ailments. That's why his fame was only spread in a small area in his hometown.

But most of the cases of disease that I treated were treated when the patients were in serious condition. General people have seen me in the patient meridian needle or bloodletting, in the skin on the medicine or surgery, the operation process can be witnessed. So everyone thought that my medical skills were very skillful, and my fame spread all over the country.

The boatman sighed and said: Chinese traditional Chinese medicine is profound, Taoist medicine medical skills of the Jingwei judgment, jumped on the paper carry. Apricot Grove from the doctor and read this article, when there will be enlightenment?

The Legend of the Magpie

The Magpie, formerly known as the Qin Yue people, young smart, diligent and hobby medicine. By chance, he met Changsangjun, a famous folk doctor at that time, and learned the art of medicine, treating the people and leaving behind a lot of miraculous legends.

Since Bian Magpie met Changsangjun, he has been working night and day, sleep and food, seriously summarizing and analyzing the experience and methods of his medical masters, and constantly improving his medical training and diagnostic ability, so that he has made great progress in diagnosing diseases.

One day, Changsangjun went out to practice medicine, and Bian Magpie was at home alone. He was reading his medical books when a moan came from outside the door. Bian Magpie was stunned and rushed to meet him at the door. Only to see two young men outside the door holding an old lady is coming to the house. The old lady was frowning and sweating profusely, with both hands covering her chest. As soon as the young man saw the magpie, he said eagerly, "Sir, my old mother's abdominal pain is unbearable, and she can't eat or drink, so I beg you to treat her." The magpie went over to the old lady and sat her down on the wooden chair, he looked at the sun and estimated that the teacher would not come back for a while, he hesitated for a moment, asked the old lady to put her hand out and patiently checked her pulse and said, "The old man's illness belongs to the discomfort of the spleen and the stomach and the pain in the stomach and epigastric region. In this way, wait for me to prescribe a prescription, go back, immediately give the old man decoction and drink, I think her illness will slowly get better."

The two lads had a grateful smile on their faces, "Then the old mother's illness can be entrusted to this gentleman."

The magpie told one of the young men to help the old lady go home and rest in bed for the time being, and on the other hand, he wrote a prescription in ink, laid out the paper and wrapped up the medicine, and then told the young man to rush home immediately to give the old lady a decoction in water.

The young man was carrying the medicine to his home in great haste, and when he came to the entrance of the village, he bumped into a group of fellows felling trees. The fellows are usually used to fighting, this time to see the young man carrying a bulging bag, thought it must be wrapped in what good food, the fellows flocked to the young man tightly surrounded, have to let him unlock the paper bag to see what is not. The young man hurriedly explained: "Do not joke, all the bread inside are some herbs, nothing to see." Fellows said with a smile, "Oh, you net trickery cheat, for no reason what medicine, quickly open the package to us to see it."

The more the young man explained, the more the fellows did not believe. There is a small boy to take advantage of his not to guard, a hungry tiger pounce, the medicine bag did not snatch hands, but all the herbs are scratching broken sprinkled on the thick sawdust. Folks froze at once, a straight scratch the back of the head. The young man blamed: "I said inside is medicine, you do not believe, this time should believe it." He said, one side of the sawdust from the medicine into the pocket.

Saying that soon after the young man left, Changsangjun came back from his medical practice, Bian magpie busily said, "Teacher, your old man was not there, the student took the risk of diagnosing a case of illness, the student now begs to be excused."

Saying this, Bian Magpie clasped his fists and asked for forgiveness.

Changsangjun whisked his beard and laughed: "Ah, quickly don't be like this, saving the dead and helping the injured is the common sense of human nature, the student is so, it is really rare and precious, for the teacher is only happy. Yue Ren, quickly tell me the patient's condition."

Bian Magpie immediately told Chang Sang Jun all about the patient's symptoms, pulse and his own diagnosis.

Changsangjun asked, "Where is the prescription?"

Bian Magpie fetched the prescription and said, "Teacher, please look."

Changsangjun read the prescription from beginning to end, but he frowned and said, "Yue Ren, the dozen or so herbs in your prescription are right for the symptoms, however, there is one missing here."

"Which flavor?" The magpie asked in astonishment.

"Sandalwood?"

"Yes, this medicine has the effect of regulating qi and resolving siltation, as you said, the patient is really a qi blockage of the spleen and stomach, the liver qi is not comfortable, the qi is not cared for and the siltation is still knotted. Although you used the analgesic medicine in your formula, but without sandalwood as the first medicine, the patient is difficult to cure."

Bian Magpie heard this, his heart was very regretful, he was so anxious that he rubbed his hands and said, "Teacher, what can be done about this?"

Changsangjun looked up at Bian Magpie, "What do you think?"

"Good, I'll send the medicine this way."

Said, Bian magpie put on the clothes, with the packaged sandalwood incense and several other auxiliary drugs, he just wanted to go out, the door into the two people, Bian magpie fixed eyes, ouch! This is not exactly the two who just helped the old lady to see the doctor? Bian magpie understood, the two must be for the mother of the medicine has not been cured and come back to get the medicine, he felt very uneasy in his heart. However, seeing the two young men with a smile on their faces, a smiling face showing gratitude, Bian magpie asked with some surprise: "How is the old lady's condition at the moment?"

The two lads arched their hands and smiled, "Thanks to the diagnosis and treatment of Mr., my mother's illness went back to drink the medicine that is healed, the body recovers as in the beginning, we have come to thank the grace."

"This ......" said the magpie, casting a skeptical eye on his teacher.

Changsangjun stepped forward and smiled, "Please sit down, two young brothers, what were you talking about?"

The two lads replied excitedly, "It was this gentleman who cured my old mother."

"Then, may I ask if there is any other medicine you have added to the contents?"

The two lads looked at Nagasangun in puzzlement and said, "No, absolutely not."

"Then, may I ask if the medicine you grabbed was opened halfway through?"

"This ......"

Frozen for a moment, one of the lads told Nagasan-kun about picking up the medicine and heading home, and encountering the tree-felling fellows tearing the packet at the intersection.

Changsangun spoke up and asked, "What kind of tree was that?"

"A sandalwood tree."

Bian Magpie was shocked to hear this and came to a realization. He looked at his teacher with admiration and couldn't help but stick out his thumb.

Changsangjun smiled, "That's right, there is something so fishy in the world, it seems that your old mother is blessed." He joked at the two lads, "Your mother's illness is also thanks to those a few joking ga fellows, or else, bother you to run again not to mention, the old lady can be subjected to the illness to suffer to this day."

The magpie turned red with shame and hung his head down.

Changsangjun instructed the two young men, "When you go back, you should also pay attention to the old man's living and eating, and never eat too hard, too hot, or too much. In addition, must not make the old lady angry, gas depression and disease, the old man suffered, the younger generation suffered, will be a big mistake."

It was a joke that shouldn't have been made

But it made Bian Magpie famous

Bian Magpie's career as a doctor didn't go smoothly, and it was rumored that there was a saying that "one died from one treatment, and ten died from ten treatments". This is a false rumor, but also more or less penetrate a problem, that is: to do things so, the practice of medicine is also so, without rich practical experience is not feasible.

Later, through his own dedicated efforts, coupled with the patient guidance of the famous doctor Changsangjun, Bian magpie finally made greater progress in his medical skills, and made a name for himself.

But when impressions take hold of people's minds, they are often easily changed. At the time, many people were still skeptical of Bian Magpie's medical skills.

One day at noon, Bian Magpie was returning home from his medical practice, when he heard that a townsman was building a house, so he changed his clothes and took his straw hat to go and help. At this time, standing on the scaffolding of a young man saw from afar Bian Magpie toward this place, said to the scaffolding, "Waiting for the Vietcong to come to the front, I'll jump down and play dead, in the end, to see if his medical skills are true or false." The people nodded in unison.

While talking, Bian Magpie had already come to the front, and he was just about to greet the crowd when he saw a man fall straight down from the scaffolding, and the man who fell down rolled a few times on the ground, and then lay there motionless.

The magpie rushed over to him, and the crowd gathered around him. The magpie took a look at the young man's face and whispered, "Alas! The man is dead." As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd burst out laughing.

Bian Magpie said in a puzzled voice, "This young man must have only just eaten lunch, his food filled his intestines and stomach, and when he fell from such a high scaffolding, his intestines and stomach have burst."

People still laughed, and an older man half-heartedly turned the young man over, only to realize that the young man had indeed fallen to his death. When the people told the magpie about the incident, the magpie sighed, "Woo-hoo! Woe! Sad! How can I make such a joke?"

From then on, Bian Magpie became famous and admired.

During the Warring States period, there were frequent disasters and epidemics in Henan province, and the people were living in dire straits, so Bian Magpie traveled around the towns and villages of Henan all year long to treat the sick.

This year, the weak and aged mother of the magpie's family became ill, and she was sick for many days, bedridden, not thinking about food and drink, and getting thinner and thinner day by day. The older brother invited a number of doctors to see, but no improvement, looking at the old mother day by day, the older brother of the magpie anxious, very bitter.

On this day, he suddenly remembered his younger brother, Magpie, who was said to have excellent medical skills and was praised for his ability to bring the dead back to life, so why not go and find him? The good thing is that some time ago, Bian Magpie let his fellow townspeople bring some silver, and knew that he was in the area of Luo Yang (present-day Luoyang, Henan Province).

The mother and her son traveled through mountains and rivers, ate and slept in the open air, and came to Luoyang after a long and arduous journey. The magpie shook his head, sighed, and called his brother aside, secretly saying, "Brother, my mother's illness is incurable; if it takes less than ten days, if it takes more than a hundred days, she will surely die. You have come a long way, rest two days to go back, so as not to bury the mother's body in a foreign country ......"

Brother heard, very sad, silently nodded. After three days, he carried his mother on his back and set out on his return journey again.

This day, the mother and son came to a front not village, not store in the back of the barren puddle of wild land. Mother suddenly felt throat smoke, thirst, more critical condition, but coincidentally with the water has long been drunk, my brother had to put his mother on the roadside under a large tree, his own water canisters to the four to look for water. Who knows, running around looking for half a day, but not even a droplet of water. Just as he was breathless back to walk, suddenly found not far from the roadside cemetery has a piece of water like a scoop of human skulls, bone scoop because of the rain accumulated water glittering in the sun. The magpie's brother as a treasure, happy, ran up to see, but could not help but inhale a breath of cold air. Originally, this bone scoop inside two small snakes, just after the skin of the small white snake is playing in the water, the water is cloudy and unclear, the water surface floating a piece of snake skin, very far from the smell of a fishy odor, not to mention drinking, is to smell, look at it, all make people nauseous.

This time, the brother can really on the big worry: how to do? Old mother is seriously ill and dying, this juncture if you can drink water will be able to live a few more hours, no water, maybe today will die of thirst in the wilderness, this is not a man-made sin? Thinking of this, he could not care less, crouched down and gently picked out the two small white snakes with his hands, and then carefully poured the water into the jar and carried it back. Come to the big tree, the mother was already dying. He gently woke up his mother and handed over the water.

The mother lifted her eyelids weakly, and as soon as she saw her son bring the water over, she lifelessly picked up the jar and drank it all. Strangely enough, the magpie's mother just drank the water down to her stomach, her body felt much more relaxed, and after a short time, she stood up with the trunk of the tree. She was overjoyed and said with a smile, "My son! This point of water can save the mother's life, mother now feel much better, come on, you first help me try, I want to walk by myself." Brother saw his mother in a different state, actually able to stand up and walk on her own, the heart did not mention how happy. So, he took his mother and continued to walk.

A few days later, mother and son came to the head of a village, coincidentally heard a family's hens just finished, "cluck, cluck" endlessly. The mother said to herself: "Hey, how many days have not eaten eggs, mother died before I do not know whether I can still eat an egg it?" Son heard, feel the heart is very bad taste, he knows, when his mother at home, every now and then always love to drink two eggs, but now living in another country, where to find it? All helpless, he still drummed up the courage, decided to try to discuss the hard. So he took his mother and knocked on the door of this family's courtyard.

Opening the door was an over-hundred-year-old woman who was holding a hot egg in her hand, which looked so big that it was like a duck's egg. The magpie's brother made a deep bow to greet him and said that his elderly and sickly mother wanted to eat an egg, and asked the lady to give him a favor. The lady hesitated for a moment, just about to speak, a girl in the room through the window spoke up: "Mother ah, you just give it to him, strange poor, to help others in danger is also our duty! Besides, it's just an egg, it's a phoenix egg, it's not as important as saving lives!" "Yes, yes, my daughter is right. This gentleman, I'm not hiding from you, my family this black hen, usually laying eggs are particularly small, today this egg is surprisingly large, it should be your mother's good fortune na!" After saying that, the old lady cheerfully handed him the egg, mother and son thanked the lady, happily holding the egg out of the village.

Coming to a road junction at the edge of the village, the mother and son were busy opening the eggs and pouring them into a bowl. No wonder the egg was so big, it turned out to be a double-yolked egg. The mother drank the egg, and in a short time, her face became red and moist from pale. Then, her body grew a lot of strength, and she was able to walk on her own without her son's help.

The mother and son were so happy that they talked and laughed as they continued their journey. However, not much work, suddenly, the wind rose up, overhead a piece of dark clouds, followed by a thunderbolt, instant downpour of rain came down, mother and son two people can not dodge, drenched in a soaking wet.

There is no coincidence that this day's strange events are rushed together. The rainstorm came in a hurry, stopped quickly, the wind and rain just after, the sun came out, a good rain after the sky. Mother and son just drenched in torrential rain, now let the warm sun a sun, not to mention how comfortable, how cozy. The mother, in particular, is refreshed, and her arms and legs are more and more powerful, said God a little, simply more than before the disease.

After a few more days, the mother and son returned to their home in Mozhou. When Bianqi's brother had settled his mother, he returned to Luo Yang alone to settle the score with Bianqi.

As soon as he saw the magpie, his brother was furious: "Magpie, magpie, you're so heartless! The mother had a hard time giving birth to you, but you should never have seen the death of your mother. But you shouldn't have seen her dying." When Bian Magpie heard this, he thought that his brother was overly saddened by his mother's death, so he didn't care about his harsh words, and sighed a long sigh, saying, "Brother, don't be angry, your filial piety to your mother is something that I admire very much. However, my mother is suffering from an incurable disease, it is not that I see death to save her, it is that I really can't do anything about it!" Then, the magpie stepped forward to take his brother's hand, deep and long persuasion: "Since now the mother has been buried in the ground, the brother should be relaxed a little, do not be too sad, there is a saying that people die as lamps are extinguished it! ......"

"Shut up!'' Hearing this, the magpie's brother could no longer contain his inner fire.

"Thanks to your many years of practicing medicine, what kind of 'divine doctor' are you? The mother's disease where is what 'incurable disease', is clearly you are malicious, afraid of being entrusted. To tell you the truth, mother's illness went back to cure itself, and now has long recovered as before."

The magpie was half-convinced that he might have been saved by a medical practitioner, so he changed his mind and explained, "In fact, my mother's illness is not incurable, but my ability is far from it, and it's my fault for not explaining it clearly at the time. However, to take a step back, even if I had prescribed the medicine, it would be in vain - these medicines, not to mention you and me, even the living gods are not good to take all ah!"

"How is it not good to get all of them, could it be that we have to go up to heaven and down to earth?"

"That's not necessary. But this prescription, both heavenly, and man-made, interaction, the lack of one is indispensable, the money is not spend much, just ......"

"Aiya! You don't want to talk about it, I want to see what you want to open in the end is a prescription?"

"All right then! "The magpie shook his head hopelessly, reached for the brush on the case, and wrote the following prescription:

Human Bone Heavenly Rain and Dew, Two Dragons Undressing and Bathing Soup.

Black chicken newborn double-yolked eggs, drenched in torrential rain and sunshine.

The prescription was written and handed to my brother, who took a look at it, which coincided with the circumstances encountered on the way home, and couldn't help but clap his hands and call it wonderful. It was only at this point that he realized that he had misjudged his brother.

Bian magpie treatment, in addition to drug therapy, spiritual therapy, exercise therapy, but also the magpie practitioners to cure the disease of unique features.

One day, a rich man found magpies, said he suffered from a serious illness, boredom, do not want to sleep, for many days, the body is getting thinner and thinner, it is difficult to enter the tea, cast a number of Mr. also failed to work. The magpie looked at the rich man in front of him, really yellow and thin, a sickly look, he gave the rich man diagnosis pulse, said: "your disease can only be a way to heal, but I do not know whether you are willing to cure."

The rich man was overjoyed to hear this, "Ah! Please quickly ask the divine doctor to say what method to use, I am certainly willing to cure."

The magpie said, "Go to the market to buy a one-foot-square stone, and keep moving it from the root of the east wall to the root of the west wall, and then from the root of the west wall to the root of the east wall, and in less than two months, you will definitely see the improvement of your disease."

The rich man listened and frowned. After living for so many years, I have only heard of famous doctors in the world who have the skill of removing the disease by medicine, but I have never heard of moving stones to cure the disease. He remembered the magpies had "six not to cure" said, doubt magpies are not intended to tease their own, but then thought of magpies is a famous god doctor, had to follow his way to do it.

From then on, people often saw the rich man carrying the stone around in the yard, tired of panting, sweating. The rich man was so intent on curing himself that he forgot to collect rent, forgot to collect taxes, thought of nothing, and cared for nothing. After two months, the rich man was in high spirits and his body gradually recovered. He approached the magpie and asked, "How is it that moving a stone can cure my illness?"

The magpie laughed and said, "You have this disease is called the heart labor excess (neurasthenia), you every day to exhaust the effort, think about how to make a fortune, fortune, one does not exercise, the second does not work, a long time, it is bound to be the heart of the body deficiency, palpitation sleeplessness. I let you move the stone, is to put your brain and physical strength appropriate mediation, physical exercise is the fundamental of life, or hope that you will not later for how to make a fortune in hard thinking."

On another occasion, Bian magpie was checking the prescription in the pharmacy, when a middle-aged man in his thirties walked in through the door, and as soon as he saw Bian magpie, he immediately lifted up his clothes and knelt down. When he saw him, he immediately lifted up his clothes and fell to his knees. Bian Magpie went over to the middle-aged man to help him up, and asked eagerly, "Is someone in your family sick?"

The middle-aged man's face reddened, and he took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to the magpie, who shook it open and saw that it was a couple of lines of weakly written poems.

Bian Magpie softly chanted:

Following the gentleman for five years with a lot of feelings, when the love need not be said,

Since the husband in the wine evil, the slave is often tortured.

They were so worried that their home was broken, and the car was not in the right place anymore.

Who will take care of the poor daughter?

The magpie chanted the poem and looked up at the middle-aged man, who told the magpie about his family with tears in his eyes--

The poem was written by the middle-aged man's wife. They have been married for five years, and at the beginning they were in love, like glue, life was sweet, his wife was born like a flower, and soon after the marriage, he was blessed with a daughter, which was even more to his liking. But later, the middle-aged people do not know how to drink, see the wine as life, drink, after the wind, the house of the furnishings destroyed, the whole family also into the silver drink wine, the wise wife also from time to time to get a scolding. Although his wife repeatedly persuade, he was right as a whisper. Time, his wife gradually worry into illness, and after some days, even sick in bed, dying.

On this day, his wife called him to her bed, and with trembling hands, she took out a piece of paper from under the bed and handed it to him. The middle-aged man took it and looked at it again, suddenly realized, his heart like a knife, hugged his wife and cried bitterly, crying and remembering the rumor of the god doctor Bianqi, so hurriedly came here.

After listening to the middle-aged man's account, Bianqi smiled slightly and said: "This big brother, drinking is not a bad thing, but do not overdo it, drinking too much, will be poisoned and injured. Borrowing wine to provoke trouble, beating and cursing your wife, this is what you are not."

Bian magpie a few words, straight to the middle-aged man said red face, no place to hide.

"Sir is right, this is all my fault, as long as sir can save the life of the delicate wife, I am determined to be a new man."

Said "flopping" kneeling on the ground, a man, but fell sad tears.

The magpie saw the middle-aged man really moved, think for a moment, then went over to help him up, said: "Big brother do not have to be so, called you said, sister-in-law's disease can be cured right now, but must be so and so, so and so ......"

The middle-aged man listened to this and then said: "I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do it, but I don't know if you want to. >The middle-aged listened and nodded repeatedly.

So the magpie ambled off to write the following lines of poetry:

The demon wife has been with me for five or six years, and her affections are linked to her heart.

It is all because of my husband's bad behavior that my beautiful home is broken up.

The nightmare has awakened and it's too late to turn back.

If we die together, we will be reunited in hell.

The magpie finished writing, and asked the middle-aged man to transcribe it and give it to his wife. When the man left, Bianjie gave him a few more instructions to follow the plan.

Briefly, the middle-aged man went home and gave the verses to his wife.

The wife read the poems, then looked at her tearful husband, a look of disappointment appeared in her dismal eyes, and then, both eyes stared straight at him.

The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said, "Since you have come to such a pass, we can't afford to worry about much, but this child, we can't let her be left to fend for herself. Why don't you just drop the child to her death, and we'll all die together."

Said, the middle-aged man grabbed the child on the ground to fall, the wife screamed, suddenly rose from the bed. In a moment, she felt a surge of heat in her chest, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.

The child cried out in fear, and the middle-aged man was worried and came forward to support his wife. At this time, the magpie from the door walked in, he saw the blood on the ground, said: "in! Zhong!" Bian told the middle-aged man: "Your wife is a long-term accumulation of depression in the heart, solid this brewed into a serious illness, Fangcai a move, said to emergency emergency, her disease will soon be well."

After that, the magpie prescribed another first aid emergency and instructed the middle-aged man to take good care of his wife, and never let her get angry again. The middle-aged man promised even, and in front of the magpie's face his wife to make amends and admit his faults, promising not to drink again in the future, and to be a new man.

The wife looked y at her husband, and two lines of bitter tears fell from her eyes.

Sure enough, after the tonic medicine was decocted, the woman gradually felt much more energetic, and after some time, she left her sickbed and recovered from her illness.

From then on, the middle-aged man also quit drinking, and the couple loved each other as much as before, and rebuilt a happy home with hard-working hands.

On one occasion, Magpie passed by a village on his way to the hospital, and when there were cries from the village, Magpie learned from the mouths of the bystanders that the deceased was a daughter-in-law who had been married for nearly a year. He was just about to continue his journey when he heard the sound of weeping getting closer and closer, and several middle-aged men carrying coffins rushed towards him. The magpie looked at the sound and was shocked to see several middle-aged men carrying a thin coffin, and he saw a few drops of blood quietly flowing out of the coffin. The magpie walked up to take a look at the blood, and quickly told the people to put down the coffin, and stopped the woman in the back from crying.

The people sized up the bone-setter in front of them and were amazed. The magpie spoke up and said, "It is said that the coffin of a dead man is a coffin for a dead man, why is it fashionable for you to bury a living man here?" Everyone looked at the magpie in amazement, then giggled, they suspected that in all likelihood, the bone-setter was a madman.

The people were about to lift the coffin and continue on their way when the magpie eagerly said, "Put it down quickly, if I'm not wrong, what lies in the coffin is a pregnant woman, who was in a coma for a long time due to a difficult labor, and this is called 'false death' (shock). "

Listening to what the doctor said, the people put down the coffin and followed the magpie's instructions, opening the lid half-heartedly. The magpie took out the needle bag, in the small daughter-in-law on the human massage for a while, and then in the middle of the epigastric acupuncture point to tie down a needle, only to see the small daughter-in-law body moved, eyes slowly opened. The magpies again cooking for a while, the woman even sat up. People rushed to help the little daughter-in-law out of the coffin, not much time, a baby boy "croak" fell to the ground.

One shot saved two lives, and the crowd applauded. The woman's husband said he wanted to invite the magpie home to have a drink, and even took out some silver to thank the magpie.

On another occasion, the magpies went out to practice medicine, halfway to the road, the sky is getting dark, he was going to stay at a guest house, the magpies just about to knock on the door, but a woman carrying a pot of sewage out of the door, accidentally, "wow" splashed all over the magpies.

The woman was so embarrassed to see her guest splashed all over her body that she apologized and said, "Mr. Bian, I'm really sorry, but I'm sorry, so please come in and change into some clean clothes.

The magpie smiled, said "nothing", and walked into the inn with the woman.

The owner of the store was drinking tea in his room, and when he saw Bian magpie entering the room, he quickly got up and gave up his seat.

As soon as he saw the owner of the store, the magpie gave a low cry, "No good, your master will be in danger of losing his life if he doesn't go out tonight."

When the woman heard this, she was so angry: "You wild magpie, didn't I just splash you with a few drops of sewage, you shouldn't curse us like this." She pointed her hand to the door, "Please go to another store." The magpie did some more explaining, but it still didn't work, looking at the shopkeeper to get angry, he had to turn around and walk out of the inn, staying in a small store across the street from this one.

The magpie lay down without closing his eyes and quietly listened to the movements of the store across the street. At midnight, the store across the street really stirred up. The owner of the store was lying on the bed, rolling on his back and moaning uncontrollably.

The woman was so angry that she shivered at the sight of the magpie. Bian magpie explained, "Sister-in-law, don't be angry, your husband is suffering from colic cholera, yesterday when I arrived here, I could see that there was something wrong with the color of his face."

The woman was still half-convinced, but her doubts were tempered with a bit of hope. Bian Magpie said calmly, "It doesn't matter, after I give your husband some treatment it will be fine."

Bian Magpie began to massage and prick the shopkeeper. Time passed slowly, and the pain in the shopkeeper's abdomen gradually stopped. The husband and wife were thankful to Bian Magpie, and always felt sorry for the kind bone-setter, saying that they had to ask him to leave his name, but they had no choice but to tell them. When the shopkeeper heard that the magpie saved his life, excited simply speechless: "God ...... God doctor, medicine king ...... medicine king ah!"

Bian Magpie's whole life is almost devoted to medical research and diagnosis and treatment above, he used the look, smell, ask, cut four methods (i.e., look at its color, listen to its voice, ask about its disease, cut its pulse) to diagnose diseases, cured a lot of rare and difficult illnesses, the "four diagnostic methods" for more than 2,000 years has been followed by China's doctors, and has become a traditional Chinese medicine The "Four Diagnostic Methods" have been used by doctors in China for more than two thousand years and have become the traditional diagnostic method of Chinese medicine. Later, Li Chee, a doctor of Qin Dynasty, was jealous of Bian Magpie's talent, and sent someone to stab Bian Magpie to death in Fudao Slope, east of Tangyin County (present-day Fudao Village, Fudao Commune, Tangyin County, Henan Province). When the people of Zhengzhou heard about this, they were filled with righteous indignation and went to carry Bian Magpie's body back and buried it five miles north of Zhengzhou city. Later, in order to commemorate him, the Yuan people, Daru Huaqi Nixian Kisumi Er, built a temple of the King of Medicine here. Wanli years of the Ming Dynasty, according to legend, Wei Zhongxian hiked to Beijing as a eunuch, when the sick sleep in the magpie temple graveyard above, see magpies in his sleep for him to heal the sick. When Wei Zhongxian woke up, he recovered from his illness. To repay the grace of the King of Medicine, Wei Zhongxian petitioned the emperor to rebuild a magnificent Temple of the King of Medicine. Temple of the King of Medicine yellow tiles and red walls, color like a very large corridor, heavy eaves flying cliffs, brilliant. Inside the Temple of the King of Medicine, magpie in the center, on both sides of the hall is the statue of ten famous doctors. At that time, the Temple of the King of Medicine is famous all over the world, and has been flourishing for a long time, every year on April 15, people from all over the world have come to the temple to make a wish and incense. Legend has it that there is a magpie pimple behind the Temple of the King of Medicine, as long as the wish is finished, descending incense, can be in the Temple of the King of Medicine pimple shaved some brown pills to, pills swallowed, all diseases are removed. Although this is a temple monk to deceive the people of a method, but people on the medicine king magpie degree of respect, and thus also see a spot.

The temple was burned several times because of the incense, and during the Republic of China period, the temple was not so neat. Legend has it that the old mother of the great warlord of shandong han fuju was seriously ill, headache unbearable, shandong all the doctors are in vain, can not be cured. One day, the old mother of the characters occasional dream, the dream saw a cage with a painted eyebrow of the old man floated to her eyes, the old man did not say, released the eyebrow, the eyebrow in the house flew two circles, a ding in her temple, a moment, the eyebrow will be articulated out of a worm to the old mother of the characters woke up, really refreshing the mind, and regained his health. Hearing his mother recall the dream, the more he said, the more with the magpie in the temple of the king of medicine in the same form. So the big construction, re-painting and restoration of the Temple of the Medicine King, and change the Temple of the Medicine King for the "Magpie Shrine".