Tang And Song Dynasties Medical Figures Deified Phenomena

To folk beliefs as a starting point to explore the relation of social reality and the pepole's ideology has been become widespread in recent years.Tang-Song era was an important stage of folk beliefs'development in ancient China, a considerable number of folk concepts were formed in this period. It is valuable to study the folk beliefs in this period. Medical people are the creators of medical knowledge and disseminator, while are participants of medical activities, their medical activities reflect the extent and direction of medical advances.Study the related stories of medical people is beneficial us to grasp the overall context of medical developments.The thesis sets from the deification of the medical people, combined with the related knowledge about folklore,medical scinece, medical history, sociology and religion, to discuss and compare the medical people among this group in Tang-Song era. At the same time,the thesis will discuss with the social reality, spiritual beliefs, the development of Buddhist and Taoism during this period and the medicine transmission system in medieval. In this regard, the thesis will focus in the following three aspects.The first part mainly analyse and discuss the phenomenon of medical people's deification during this period. This part will divided into two sections:Section I, Analyse the medical people who were deified before Tang Dynasty. From this, I will give a brief overview about it. Section II, the phenomenon of medical people's deification during Tang-Song era, which is the focus of this section. Based on the different types of medical people deified, this section mainly divided into the following parts:First, "Yao Wang".Yao Wang is an honorific title of the famous physicians and related legend characters skilling in medicine in ancient china, they were deified and worshiped, sacrificed for the god of medicine, which is outstanding in medical people who were deified. The second, built temple or cisi to worship. This part will targeted at the prevalent temple and cisi at the time, such as the Bian Que Temple, Hua Tuo Temple, Sun Simiao Temple, Pi Chang Temple, Baosheng Dadi Temple, to discuss.The third, the other medical people who were attached to the gods. The fourth, attach a magic skill to the medical people.The fifth, the other myth of medical people. From it, I want to form a overall analysis for the phenomenon of this period, and then I will discuss the social reality relected by it.The second part deals with the background and reasons for the phenomenon of medical people's deification. From an objective point of view, it because the low level of social productive forces of ancient, most people were lack of scientific knowledge;from a subjective perspective, it is a manifestation of man's utilitarian psychology. In addition, the atmosphere to worship the gods in the Tang-Song era, esoteric and empirical nature of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the impact of Buddhism and Taoism also closely related to it. The thesis has a In-depth discussion.On the basis of the first two parts, the third part is mainly compare and analyze the content and objects of the phenomenon of medical people's deification between the Tang dynasty and Song dynasty. From it, I find the phenomenon in Song dynasty is more rich and colorful than the Tang dynasty's, and also mor specific. In addition, there were more literators in the deified medical people group. I think it was related to the change of thoughts and ideas in the background of Neo-Confucianism in Song Dynasty, the rulers paid more attention to the Traditional Chinese Medicine, the improvement of the physician's status, the relationship between literator and physician are more close, and so on. Meantime, I will do a simple explanation about it.