What is the significance of the days of heavenly doctors?

Traditional Chinese Medicine Day is a traditional folk festival in Shandong.

Physician's Day is a traditional folk festival in Shandong, which is held on the first day of the eighth lunar month every year. It is considered to be the day when doctors offered sacrifices to Huangdi and Zeebe in Song Dynasty. It is said that the Yellow Emperor consulted Zeebe, and there are medical books in the world, but later he thought they were gods. On this day, Shandong folk also have the custom of natural moxibustion. Dewdrops and cinnabar were used in the early stage, and then dewdrops were used to grind ink, which was widely used in northern Shandong and Jiaodong areas. Natural Medicine Festival is also another name for Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival is another name for Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is full of yang, and everything grows. It is the strongest day of Chinese medicine for flowers and trees in a year. Dragon Boat Festival is full of medicine. There is a folk saying that the medicine used in the Dragon Boat Festival is the most effective. Volume 22 of Collection of Miscellaneous Drugs quotes the lost article of Jing Chu Sui Ji: "On May 5, competing for miscellaneous drugs can cure all diseases." The most common way to use drugs in Dragon Boat Festival is to use "medicine" and "medicine gas" to restrain the evil and poisonous gas.

History and Culture of Medical Day

Since the Yuan Dynasty, the government has also offered sacrifices. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the court ordered all counties to offer sacrifices to Huang San, namely Fuxi, Shennong and Huangdi. In addition, Yu Fu, the minister who sacrificed to the Yellow Emperor (according to legend, an ancient doctor, Souqiu Shu), and the names of ten people listed in medical books were attached. Local officials organize sacrificial activities in spring and autumn every year, which are presided over by doctors.

In the Qing Dynasty, Jingshitai Hospital set up Jinghui Temple to worship Fuxi, Shennong and Huangdi, and invited Qi Bo, Yu Cuo, Gao Bo, Shao Shi, Lei Gong, Yi Yin, Chunyuyi, Bian Que, Zhang Ji, Hua Tuo, Wang Shuhe, Ge Hong and Sun Sixian as supplementary sacrifices. There are pre-medical temple fairs in all provinces, which are held every spring and summer.

"The Century of the Emperor": "Qi Bo was once the minister of the Yellow Emperor, and the emperor ordered Qi Bo to taste plants and cure diseases, and he was treated with herbal medicine and Su Wenxian." Legend has it that Qi Bo and Huangdi co-wrote the medical work Huangdi Neijing, which opened the precedent of Chinese medicine writing. Qi Baishi, the most famous doctor in ancient China, is known as "the ancestor of traditional medicine in China" and "the sage of medicine". Because of his age, he is generally considered to be from Qishan, Shaanxi.