The story of dumplings and Zhang Zhongjing is that he pounded herbs into a filling, then wrapped the herbs in dough and pinched them into the shape of an ear, which he named Dumpling Ear.

The way to eat the dumpling ear is also very simple, boil it with water, eat the ear first, and then drink the original soup together. Zhang Zhongjing wrapped a lot of dumpling ears in one go and started to give out dumpling ear soup at an intersection. The people came to eat the dumpling ears, and after eating them, their bodies were warmed up, and their ability to withstand the cold winter seemed to be strengthened, and from then on, there was no more freezing off of the ears.

But the so-called healer does not heal himself, Zhang Zhongjing finally became sick from exhaustion and died on the day of the winter solstice. In order to prevent people from making a big fuss about his funeral, he said that he would have his coffin lifted up with a thin rope, and when the rope couldn't stand it anymore and broke, he would just bury it at that place. As a result, people did as they were told, and right where he was giving out dumpling ear soup, the rope broke, so the people buried the divine doctor there.

Major Contributions of Zhang Zhongjing

The Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever is the most influential classical medical treatise in the history of Chinese medicine, and the first masterpiece of clinical therapeutics in China, which is a compilation of medical theories since the Qin and Han Dynasties and widely used in medical practice. The contribution of the Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases lies first in the development and establishment of the basic laws of Chinese medicine for the identification and treatment of illnesses.

In addition to the original nature of identification and treatment, Zhang Zhongjing also proposed the flexibility of identification in order to cope with some of the more special cases. For example, the diagnostic methods of "pulse from evidence" and "pulse from evidence". That is, the identification of evidence must be expected, smell, questioning, cutting four diagnosis of the premise, if the pulse, the evidence does not match the situation, should be based on the actual condition, careful analysis, eliminating false or secondary contradictions, in order to capture the essence of the evidence, or to give up the pulse from the evidence, or to give up the evidence from the pulse.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhang Zhongjing