To identify the authenticity of rosewood, we rely on alcohol. Generally, we use a cotton ball to dip some alcohol and then gently rub it on the surface of rosewood. If the cotton ball turns purple-red, then it is real rosewood, or soak the wood chips of rosewood in alcohol. If there are blood-red silk strips at the end, it means that this is real rosewood.

Of course, this is the method of identifying old rosewood. If it is new rosewood, it will fade when soaked in water, while old rosewood will not fade in water.

"When red sandalwood encounters alcohol, it will naturally fade. This is a normal phenomenon." Jiang Feng briefly explained the reasons to the two girls, then picked up the needle box and wiped the water stains on the surface with a tissue.

When looking at this needle box again, Jiang Feng discovered some unusual changes. The rosewood box now seems not made of a whole piece of wood. At one end of the box, there seems to be a wooden strip to seal the gap. It was originally a long time ago and looked integrated. Now that it was soaked in alcohol, the dirt on the surface was removed and the fine seams were exposed.

Is there anything in it?

After thinking about this, Jiang Feng immediately became interested. You should know that ancient people often like to do things that others unexpectedly want to keep some secrets, or is there any secret hidden in this red sandalwood needle box?

When Jiang Feng thought of this, he felt a little excited, so he went to the kitchen to find some tools and wanted to pry off the sealed wooden strips.

The red sandalwood is very strong, and Jiang Feng didn't want to break the needle box, so he took a long time to remove the sealed wooden strips. He immediately found that the lid was hollow and there seemed to be something inside. When he took it out, he found that it was a piece of yellow silk.

A piece of silk would naturally not attract Jiang Feng's attention. The key problem is that the silk is covered with dense small fly-headed calligraphy, which seems to record something important.

Jiang Feng glanced briefly and found that the songs recorded on it were all about the specific methods of using acupuncture. It reads catchy and concise, which shows that the writer's writing skills and his skill in acupuncture are very profound.

I know this because he has learned some knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine according to Mr. Feng's requirements recently, otherwise he would not have seen any clues.

"What the hell is going on? Why is there hollow inside the wood?"

Su Chang and Liu Yifei both felt a little curious when they watched Jiang Feng fiddling with things there, especially when Jiang Feng took out a piece of silk that looked very long from the wooden layer of the needle box, their interest became even stronger, so they asked Jiang Feng in unison.

Jiang Feng carefully observed the empty space of the needle box and found that in addition to this piece of silk, there was also a golden needle in it. Although he didn't know how long it had been stored in it, it was still as bright as a newly made one.

He checked another piece of wood in the needle box and found another secret hole, which also contained a piece of silk, which indeed drew a map of the meridians and acupoints of the human body.

Jiang Feng ignored Su Chang and Liu Yifei standing beside him, but carefully put away the things, sealed the wooden strips again, and then said to the two girls: "I think I probably discovered something very important."

Although he was unable to confirm the authenticity of the newly discovered map and formula, he could be hidden in wood for hundreds of years, and these graphic texts are also of great origin. Jiang Feng really hoped to discover something important from it.

Or, the current situation in the acupuncture world has changed suddenly? Jiang Feng is not sure of this guess.

After seeing the things in the needle box, Jiang Feng's first reaction was to take these things to Mr. Feng. The old man is an expert and this thing is his family treasure. He has the most say in this issue.

It was also when Mr. Feng gave this red sandalwood needle box to Jiang Feng that he realized that Mr. Feng would actually be a master in Xinglin.

Xinglin is a synonym for the traditional Chinese medicine industry. Doctors often regard themselves as people in Xinglin. However, the dictionary of Xinglin comes from Dong Feng, a Taoist doctor from the Three Kingdoms in the late Han Dynasty.

Dong Feng was as famous as the three miracle doctors of Jian'an, along with Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo at that time. Among the many legendary deeds about Dong Feng, the most influential story was his story of practicing medicine in Lushan.

According to Volume 10 of "Biographies of Gods and Immortals", Dong Feng once lived in seclusion in the southern foot of Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi for a long time, enthusiastically treating mountain people. When he practiced medicine, he never asked for remuneration. Whenever a serious patient was cured, the patient's family would plant five apricot trees on the hillside; when he was careful of a mild disease, he only had to plant one apricot tree. Therefore, all the patients from all over the four towns came to seek treatment when they heard the news, and Dong Feng all used planting apricots as medical rewards. A few years later, there were as many as 100,000 apricot forests in the Lushan area. After the apricots matured, Dong Feng sold the apricots into grain to sell to the poor people of Lushan Mountain and hungry people from all over the country. In a year, more than 20,000 people were rescued.

Later it was said that a tiger guarded the apricot forest to prevent unworthy people from stealing apricots. Those who want to eat apricots can only exchange rice and grains for rice. Dong Feng used the exchanged rice to help the poor, so there is also a saying that a tiger guarded the apricot forest.

Of course, when Mr. Feng knew that Jiang Feng was actually a martial arts master, he decided to pass on his medical skills to Jiang Feng, he revealed that he was an expert in Xinglin. The Feng family has always been a family of traditional Chinese medicine before.

However, the acupuncture technique began to decline after the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, and many ancient methods were gradually lost, especially in several places where acupuncture techniques were developed. The doctors and the common people were slaughtered by the Qing soldiers. This led to the decline of traditional Chinese medicine between the Qing Dynasty and the early years of the Republic of China. Generally, traditional Chinese medicine either passed down or failed scholars to turn to medical schools. Of course, these declining literati who were brainwashed by the slaughter of the Qing Dynasty, of course, could not have any great talents. In addition, Ji Xiaolan later compiled the "Siku Quanshu" and modified the ancient books into a mess. Some of the yin and yang and five elements theories left behind were incomplete, which made everyone confused, so it was natural that traditional Chinese medicine based on this was even worse.

Therefore, among the last few people in the late Qing Dynasty, there were many people who used traditional Chinese medicine for surgery, such as Sun Wen and Lu Xun, who were Western medicine who went abroad to study. When they mentioned traditional Chinese medicine, they gritted their teeth and wanted to seal all the medicine shops. In their opinion, traditional Chinese medicine based on the theory of Yin and Yang and Five Elements has no scientific basis at all, and should be in the same industry as the fraudsters in the fortune telling on the street.

At that time, the intellectual circles such as Liang Qichao and Hu Shi also strongly derogatory traditional Chinese medicine and advocated Western medicine. After the founding of the Republic of China, traditional Chinese medicine was once in a crisis of being banned.

Jiang Feng also knows an interesting story about the famous scholar Liang Qichao.

When it comes to Liang Qichao, there are not many young people who know him. They only remember that there is the "Reform Movement of 1898" in the history textbook and the "Theory of Young China" in the Chinese textbook. These two are directly related to Liang Qichao. If you look at it more carefully, you will know that Liang Qichao had some connection with President Yuan Shikai. Later, it seemed that he had some inexplicable relationships with Puyi, the abbreviated Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

But in short, Liang Qichao was a person who once represented the power of social progress and deserved the title of master. Later things, we still have to analyze them from a historical materialism and dialectical perspective. We cannot erase his original achievements just because of a little flaw. Oh, this is a bit far-reaching.

Back to the point, Liang Qichao is a sensible figure in modern Chinese history. Once his political or academic works are published, they are immediately popular in the contemporary world. He has an emotional pen, and his articles written are clear in reason. The so-called fusion of emotion and reason is as praised by people at that time, thrilling, and a word is worth a thousand gold. At that time, Mr. Liang raised his arms and shouted, and he gathered many fans, and he was countless fans.

He went to college to give a speech, with a blue robe and a green jacket. He was tall and stubborn, but had a red face and bright eyes. He had many gestures to help his expression. When he quoted the book, he did not read the original work, so he recited it in paragraphs. When he couldn't recite it, he pointed to his forehead and made a sound, and suddenly continued to talk.

At that time, from the president to the common people, the Chinese people felt that they would definitely make mistakes if they didn’t listen to Mr. Liang. In 1921, an Austrian violin master came to Beijing to perform. Liang Qichao wrote an article in the Morning Post, pointing out that if he didn’t go to the Zhenguang Cinema to listen to the musician playing famous Western music, he would be a barbarian without cultural level!

So college and middle school students in Beijing pawned clothes and bought expensive tickets. President Li Yuanhong also thought he was definitely not a barbarian, so he actually booked a box in the theater, took his wives, concubines and relatives to support him, and presented a large basket of flowers to Western musicians. This shows how charming Liang Qichao is.

However, this Liang Rengong has never been able to get along with traditional Chinese medicine.

Liang Qichao and Liang Rengong were admitted to Union Hospital due to hematuria. He was sick for many years and his family repeatedly advised him to seek medical treatment. He always felt it was troublesome, but the day before he was admitted to the hospital, he suddenly suspected that he had cancer and finally agreed to have a checkup. After X-ray, the doctor saw a black spot in his right kidney and diagnosed it as a tumor.

Liang Qichao's brother Liang Zhongce asked the attending doctor, "It's not necessarily cancer, right?"

The doctor replied: "It's not necessarily not cancer."

After hearing what the doctor said, Liang Zhongce had no choice, because he was not sure that it was not cancer, so he asked the doctor again, how should his brother's disease be cured? The doctor said that he would remove it all. After the operation, the kidney was dissected. As a result, there was a black spot as big as a cherry, but it was not cancer.

The worst thing is that the patient still has blood in his urine and cannot find out the source of the disease. Therefore, the follow-up examination was caused by unreasonable bleeding. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to Piaotian Literature Registered Members to recommend this work. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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