Since the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1565), Li Shizhen has visited Wudang Mountain, Lushan Mountain, Maoshan Mountain, Niushou Mountain, Huguang, Nanzhili, Henan, Beizhili and other places to collect drug specimens and prescriptions, and consulted 925 kinds of medical books in previous dynasties with fishermen, woodcutters, farmers, coachmen, pharmacists and snake catchers as teachers.
27 years of cold and heat, three easy drafts. In the eighteenth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1590), he completed the magnum opus Compendium of Materia Medica with1920,000 words. In addition, he also studied pulse science and eight strange meridians. There are many works, such as Eight Veins in the Strange Classics and Hu Ling Veins. He was honored as a "medicine saint" by later generations.
Extended data:
After the founding of New China, in memory of the great physician Li Shizhen, a mausoleum was built in his hometown, southeast of qi zhou, by the beautiful Jade Lake, and the "Li Shizhen Cemetery" was built. The cemetery consists of five parts: herbal tablet gallery, memorial exhibition, medical museum, herbal garden and cemetery. 1982 was designated as the second batch of key cultural relics protection units in China. 1996, listed as a national demonstration base for patriotism education.
1978, Hubei Provincial Bureau of Culture rebuilt the tomb of Li Shizhen and the statue of Li Shizhen, which was 4.35 meters high and inscribed by Guo Moruo. There are two parallel graves behind the statue. On the east side, Li Shizhen and his wife Wu were buried together. There are tombstones erected by his sons Li Jianyuan and Zhong Jian at the Mid-Autumn Festival in the fourth year of Ming Dynasty (1593). On the west side is the tomb of father and mother Zhang, with a bottom diameter of 6 meters and a height of about 2 meters.
On the bluestone in front of the monument, there is a portrait of Li Shizhen painted by the famous painter Jiang. There is also a stone tablet in front of the tomb, engraved with the inscription of Mr. Guo Moruo, former president of China Academy of Sciences. 1980, Li Shizhen memorial hall, a national key cultural relic protection unit, was formally established in the cemetery. The entire memorial hall covers an area of 50,000 square meters, and the antique door of the memorial hall is inlaid with the museum name 1987 inscribed by Comrade Deng Xiaoping on July 8th.
The exhibits in the memorial hall mainly include 1000 pieces of historical relics, documents, medicinal specimens, charts, photos, portraits and sculptures, which vividly and systematically introduce Li Shizhen's life and the great achievements of Compendium of Materia Medica. There are many rare books in the collection, and various versions of Compendium of Materia Medica since Ming and Qing Dynasties are precious.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Li Shizhen