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What did the ancient almond trees refer to? Who did Xinglin people refer to in ancient times?

1 and "Xinglin" are synonymous with traditional Chinese medicine. Doctors often pretend to be "Xinglin people". However, the dictionary Xinglin gave Dong Feng, a Taoist doctor in Fujian, a chronicle of the Three Kingdoms in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. "Xinglin House" means that the whole family is a highly skilled doctor.

2. The source of allusions:

Dong Feng, whose name is Yi Jun, was born in Houguan (now Fuzhou), Fujian. Together with Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo at that time, they were also called "Jian 'an Three Magical Doctors". Among many legendary stories about Dong Feng, the most influential one is the story of his practicing medicine in Lushan Mountain. Volume 10 of The Legend of the Immortals says: "You live in the mountains, treat people, and you don't take money or things, which makes people seriously ill. For ten years, you planted five apricots, and one of them was light, which made you 100,000 more, and you became a forest ... "Dong Feng once lived in seclusion in the south of Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi Province for a long time and was enthusiastic about treating diseases for the mountain people. He never asks for remuneration when he practices medicine. Whenever he cured a seriously ill patient, he asked the patient to plant five apricot trees on the hillside. If you are optimistic about minor illnesses, you only need to plant an apricot tree. As a result, patients from the four townships came to seek treatment, and Dong Feng paid for apricot planting. A few years later, there were as many apricot trees in Lushan area as100000. When the apricots are ripe, Dong Feng sells them as food to help the poor and hungry people in Lushan. In a year's time, more than 20,000 people were rescued. Later, it was said that there were tigers guarding Xinglin to prevent criminals from stealing apricots. Those who want to eat apricots can only exchange rice, while Dong Feng uses rice to help the poor, so there is a saying that tigers guard almond trees. It is precisely because of Dong Feng's noble character of practicing medicine and saving the world that he has won the universal admiration of the people. After Dong Feng came out of the mountain, people set up an altar in Xinglin to worship this kind Taoist priest. Later, people built apricot altars, real altars and fairy altars in Dong Feng's seclusion to commemorate Dong Feng. In this way, the word Xinglin gradually became a special term for doctors. People like to praise a great doctor like Tong Feng with words like "Xinglin is warm in spring" and "Xinglin is famous".