March 17 is China’s National Medical Festival. The original intention of its establishment is to hope that Chinese medicine practitioners in China can not forget their original intentions, remember their mission, abide by medical ethics, shoulder the responsibility of inheriting Chinese medicine, and carry forward Chinese medicine culture.
On this special day, our series of “Telling Stories to Know Traditional Chinese Medicine” specially launched a special edition of the National Medical Festival to introduce a famous doctor in the Three Kingdoms period – “Dong Feng”. “Xinglin Chunnuan”, as we often say, is a story about his practice of medicine.
Dong Feng was eager to cure the people, but he did not charge any fees. He only stipulated that the patients who recovered should plant apricot trees on the hillside. A few years later, the local area grew into an apricot forest. When the Apricot Forest came to fruition, he exchanged fruit for food to help the poor. Since then, people have used “Apricot Forest” to represent Chinese medicine, and “Apricot Forest in Spring” to praise doctors for their noble medical ethics and superb medical skills.
