Appreciation of couplets in ancient and modern medical Spring Festival couplets.

Spring Festival couplets are a unique form of applied literature in China, which has a history of thousands of years. Ancient and modern Spring Festival couplets are almost all words of blessing and auspicious sentences, but there are some special Spring Festival couplets that are different from this content. I saw some Spring Festival couplets written by medical people from the historical materials the other day, which was quite interesting.

In the Qing Dynasty, there was an old Chinese doctor named Fan in Ningbo, Zhejiang. He wrote two strange Spring Festival couplets. I put a pair on my doorstep, which said, "I hope people will always be healthy, why not be poor for one person?" He is uncharacteristically, with a doctor's unique "childlike heart", and sincerely wishes people good health, even if no one cares about his clinic and he is "penniless".

Another couplet is posted on the door of his study. Lian said, "Why am I not old and beggars are not sick?" Good doctors all have the same heart, which is really unique.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a famous old Chinese medicine practitioner in Xiangxiang, Hunan Province, also opened a Chinese medicine shop. He wrote a pair of Spring Festival couplets: "As long as everyone is not sick, why worry about putting medicine on the shelf?" There is also a Chinese medicine practitioner who runs a Chinese medicine shop in Jishui, Jiangxi Province, who wrote a couplet with similar content: "I only pray that there is no disease in the world, so why worry about putting medicine on the shelves?"

Tongcheng, Anhui Province, was famous for its prosperous writing style in the Qing Dynasty. So far, there are still many doctors' Spring Festival couplets, such as "spring, summer, autumn and winter, hard-working Chinese medicine; Southeast and northwest, diligently rule the world. "There is a pharmacy linked to Qiao Qi:" Ointment can be eaten, medicine can be eaten, and plaster can't be eaten; Spleen is a good doctor, qi is a good doctor and has a bad temper. "

Once upon a time, there was a small temple under Shuzhugang, Guangzhou, in which there were a doctor named Hua Tuo and a god of wealth named Zhao Gong. Every spring and summer, the epidemic is prevalent, and the incense in front of Huatuo is very prosperous. When autumn and winter come, Zhao Gong is lucky again. The two gods refused to give way, saying that you had touched my light. In order to make peace and give them a little self-knowledge, Zhu in the temple asked someone to write a couplet. Its Li Anyun: "It is difficult to buy life with money in the sky; There is no cure for poverty in the world. "

Some pharmacies hang couplets in front of the store, which are neat and meaningful, such as "one medicine and one sex, how can you refer to a deer as a horse?" There are many diseases, how dare you make cattle into sheep? Or "in addition to the diseases of three relatives and four friends, gather the essence of the four seas and five mountains", that is to say, doctors should have noble medical ethics to save lives.