Fool sells medicine translation

A man has just opened a drugstore. One day, he asked his son to look after the drugstore because he was out. A drug buyer came to buy Achyranthes bidentata and Coptidis Rhizoma. His son is stupid and doesn't know drugs. He searched in the medicine cabinet for a long time, but found nothing, so he cut off one leg of his own cow and two feet of a chicken and sold it to the medicine buyer.

When the father came back, he asked his son what medicine he was selling. Knowing what happened before, he smiled and sighed, "If the guests want to buy Anemarrhena asphodeloides and Fritillaria, don't you even sell your mother?"

Original text:

Some people open pharmacies for the first time. One day, he went out and asked his son to look after the shop. When a guest bought Achyranthes bidentata and Huanglian chicken feet, he knew nothing about medicine and was always fine. He cut off a foot of a farmed cow and sold it with two chicken feet. Father asked what medicine to sell, inquired about the past, smiled and sighed, and said, "You want Anemarrhena asphodeloides and Fritillaria, even your mother!" "

Extended data:

"Fool Selling Medicine" comes from Guang Xiao Fu written by Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty. This story satirizes people who don't pretend to understand, look forward to literature and reason, and don't ask for advice modestly.

Creative background:

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the upper rulers learned to believe in Taoism. At that time, many important events were related to Taoism. At that time, Taoist alchemists were fooling around. With the germination of capitalist production factors, the consciousness of commodity economy is getting stronger and stronger, and the relationship between people tends to be utilitarian. Money has shown great power in social life, resulting in many misers and people who love money like life.

Guangxiaofu is a collection of jokes created in connection with social, economic and political factors at that time.

About the author:

Feng Menglong (1574- 1646) was a writer, thinker and dramatist in the Ming Dynasty. Born in a scholar-bureaucrat family. My brother dreamed of laurel trees and was good at drawing. Brother Meng Xiong, a big disciple, studied under Feng Menglong's Spring and Autumn Annals, and there are poems handed down from generation to generation. The three brothers are also called "Wuxia Sanfeng". The representative works are more beautiful than the world.