parentshiftbook Chapter 528: The Misinterpretation That Starving To Death Is A Small Matter But Being Dishonest Is A
Chapter 528: The Misinterpretation That Starving To Death Is A Small Matter But Being Dishonest Is A
Yan Changqing, who was on the high platform in Wanmin Medical College, did not know that his identity as Medical Saint Qibo had already established another temple besides the Medical Saint Temple and was invested in the Gods by the people.
Zhu Yuanzhang found out about this matter through his Jin Yiwei, but he had no intention of suppressing or stopping this matter.
Even after sending Jin Yiwei to verify, since Yan Changqing taught the midwives in Beijing more scientific and effective knowledge of delivery, as well as the use of forceps in difficult labor.
It is indeed after giving birth to almost 100% safe mother and child.
Zhu Yuanzhang issued a decree in the name of the imperial court to include "Mother and Child Safe Medical Saint" as one of the official gods of the imperial court.
In addition, he was awarded the corresponding title of nobility and assigned an official temple to manage the "Mother and Son Ping An Medical Holy Temple".
For Zhu Yuanzhang, he did not need to pay for the cost of building the "Mother and Son Peaceful Medical Holy Temple".
The corresponding titles and ranks were only given in vain, not in reality.
The imperial court only needed to send three or five low-ranking officials to serve as temple blessings and take charge of management.
However, he was able to further win over the people's hearts by conferring the title "Mother and Child Safe Medical Saint". He was also able to solidify and promote the Saint status of the Medical Saint Qi Bo, thereby strengthening the Ming Dynasty's orthodox status in the hearts of the people in disguise.
Even if you are more shameless, you can still get the incense money from [Mother and Child Peaceful Medical Temple] for free!!!
For Zhu Yuanzhang, such a thing that can be accomplished in one fell swoop is just a matter of moving his fingers and issuing a decree. Why wouldn't he do it?!
The [Mother and Son Ping An Medical Holy Temple], which was officially canonized and recognized by the imperial court, immediately became more popular among the people.
For a time, [Mother and Son Ping An Medical Holy Temple] was at its peak.
Even the Taoists and Buddhists in the capital were secretly thinking about how to incorporate this new "Mother and Child Safe Medical Sage" into their own systems after seeing this scene.
For example, Taoism plans to arrange "Mother and Child Safe Medical Sage" as the reincarnation of a certain star king, emperor, or Tao king in the sky.
Buddhism plans to arrange the "Mother and Child Peaceful Medical Saint" as the reincarnation of an Arhat, Bodhisattva, and Buddha Ancestor in the Western Pure Land.
Such things, for them, are simply easy to come by.
For thousands of years, the battle between Taoism and Buddhism has basically been like this.
Whenever the other party has a famous god, they will basically copy it, or make a similar one.
If they see that the imperial court has officially granted a new god of mountains, rivers, and nature, or if a loyal minister, a righteous man, a virtuous and filial woman is worshiped as a god, then they will also compile it into their own system from time to time.
For example, the famous character god Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang were compiled in Taoism as one of the four guardians of Taoism: Emperor Guan Sheng, Emperor Wen Heng, Emperor Three Realms Demon-Conquering Emperor, Wu Caishen, etc.
On the Buddhist side, Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang were also compiled as Jialan Bodhisattva (Jialan God), Gaitian Ancient Buddha, etc.
However, although these things are related to Yan Changqing, they have nothing to do with Yan Changqing.
Whether it is the wall of Wanmin Medical College, the wall of Wanmin Agricultural College, or the invisible high wall that Zhu Yuanzhang built for others, they are all high enough to isolate him from all the wind and rain that he does not want to be exposed to. .
On the high platform, Yan Changqing held the forceps and slowly pulled out a newborn baby made of cloth from the dummy that was also filled with cloth and placed on the platform, and then placed:
"This is how forceps are used."
All the famous doctors below nodded after reading this.
The use of forceps is not troublesome, and even midwives who are illiterate and have little knowledge and culture can learn it.
Naturally, they are famous doctors and doctors who are extremely knowledgeable.
After watching Yan Changqing's demonstration, they roughly wrote down how to use the forceps, as well as related precautions and some emergency measures for mothers with difficult labor.
After that, they only need to practice with the dummy twice more, and they will be able to completely master this skill that is basically useless to them.
Yes, basically useless!!!
Although they have learned how to use forceps, even as famous doctors, they are far more aware than others of the role forceps can play in assisting mothers in childbirth!!!
It can be said that the importance of forceps and the changes it brings are definitely no less than the previous stethoscope!!!
However, even so, throughout their lives, unless they really meet the kind of husband who does not care about the reputation of the mother, but only cares about the safety of the mother's life [otherwise they will not have the opportunity to save any mother with forceps!!!
Since ancient times, the protection of men and women, or women's reputation, has been extremely important.
After the subtle influence of Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, especially after the saying "starving to death is a small matter, losing integrity is a big matter" was widely circulated.
The importance of women's reputation has been further perverted and elevated to an existence that is more important than life and death.
But what needs to be explained is that most people understand that "dying from poverty and starvation is a small matter, but a woman losing her reputation is a big deal." In fact, they have misinterpreted "starving to death is a small matter, but losing her integrity is a big deal."
The earliest sentence comes from "Er Cheng Quanshu·Suicide Note 22": "I also asked: 'Maybe there are orphans and widows who are poor and have no support, can they remarry?" He said: 'It's just that future generations are afraid of cold and starvation, so there is such a saying. . However, starving to death is a small matter, but taking measures to save yourself is a big deal!"
Cheng Yi's words refer to both men and women, not just women.
His meaning is very clear: From an ethical and moral point of view, it is an immoral act for a man to marry a widow; it is also an immoral act for a widowed woman to remarry. Even if a person is driven to death by poverty, he cannot lose his integrity.
Moreover, Cheng Yi accidentally put forward this sentence in an informal setting, and he did not repeatedly publicize it.
Even Cheng Yi himself did not follow what he said. After his niece lost her husband, he was afraid that his sister would be too sad, so he took his niece home and then married someone else (Volume 6 of "Jin Si Lu").
After this sentence was put forward, it actually did not have much impact on the environment at that time.
Cheng Yi's attitude towards women, like other scholar-bureaucrats at the same time, was mostly tolerant.
For example, Sima Guang advocated that women could study, and Fan Zhongyan stipulated in the "Yi Zhuang Tian Agreement" that remarried widows should be paid.
Another example is that Li Qingzhao, whom everyone is familiar with, remarried to Zhang Ruzhou, and Tang Wan remarried to Zhao Shicheng, which did not cause any criticism at the time.
It can be seen that the social atmosphere at that time was not so harsh for women.
However, although Cheng Yi only mentioned it to himself, he didn't mention it again afterwards.
But after the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi dug it out again and used it as a tool to persuade people to observe moral integrity.
As a result, Cheng Yi's originally casual mention of "Starving to death is a small matter, being dishonest is a big deal" really began to spread widely.
In the Yuan Dynasty, with the prosperity of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism (Wang Wang Zhao), it gradually occupied the dominant position of mainstream thought.
As representatives of Neo-Confucianism, Er Cheng and Yi Zhu were also promoted to the altar by thousands of Confucian scholars.
And the words they said are regarded as golden rules, the words of the Saint, which cannot be violated.
As a result, "starving to death is a small matter, but lack of integrity is a big matter" was regarded as a golden rule by many scholars and doctors, and it was directly applied to women, subconsciously ignoring the original intention of this sentence for both men and women.
Even more ignored, even Cheng Yi who said this sentence did not do what he said.
After such a long period of influence from Neo-Confucianism, there are now shackles and barriers such as the defense of men and women and women's honors.
Not to mention that they are just a famous doctor, even a medical sage like Yan Changqing sometimes cannot open or overcome it.
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