Lu Xun once said: "Traditional Chinese medicine is just a liar, intentional or unintentional." Because of this sentence, those who oppose traditional Chinese medicine regard Lu Xun as their banner. But these people are actually mistaken. What Lu Xun opposed was not traditional Chinese medicine. Lu Xun expressed this emotion because of his father's illness. In the article "Father's Disease", he wrote: "My father's edema has become worse day by day" until "I saw that my father's face was very strange." The "Huangdi Neijing" believes that the energy of the five internal organs is reflected on the face, and the blue and black are like dead grass. , is a fatal disease; yellow, like citrus aurantium, is a fatal disease; black, like soot, is a fatal disease; red, like septicemia, is a fatal disease; white, like withered bones, is a fatal disease. In the well-known "Bian Que Meets Duke Huan of Cai", "Bian Que looked at Duke Huan of Cai and then walked away", which is also because Bian Que had observed from the look on Duke Huan of Cai's face that he was ill and had died. In ancient Chinese, "walk" means to run. This shows that even a miracle doctor is afraid of being responsible for ineffective treatment. It can be seen from the article that his father's symptoms were edema and he was already seriously ill. Edema may occur in advanced liver cancer and uremia. Even modern Western medicine is powerless. "Lu Xun could still see something strange. The doctors who treated his father were famous local doctors. It is impossible not to know that they prescribed such hard-to-find medicines as "sugar cane with three years of frost" and "a pair of crickets from the original wife". Maybe it was not for greed. The consultation fee of one yuan and four cents, but I hope that if you are sincere, a miracle will happen. This is probably a kind of spiritual comfort for the patient and his family. In the end, it is better to add unnecessary pain to the patient than to intentionally or unintentionally cheat. It would be more humane to lose both people and money. In Lu Xun's "Qiejieting Essays", there is also a record of this incident: Once Lu Xun fell ill, had a fever every night, and felt weak all over, so he naturally chose to see Western medicine. , the hospital is also a large hospital in Shanghai. The doctor initially said it was influenza, but the fever did not subside after treatment. The doctor suspected that he had typhoid fever and took blood tests again. However, the next day he said there was no typhoid bacteria in his blood. Next, he listened to the lungs and heart, and "checked the whole body several times," and did a comprehensive physical examination, but still had no clue. "This seemed to make him very embarrassed." "On the other hand, Lu Xun tried to smooth things over and said, maybe it was fatigue. The doctor" didn't object after hearing this. He just muttered and said: But the fever due to fatigue should be lower..." Chinese medicine did not save his father's life, but Western medicine did not cure his cold. Unexpectedly, there was nothing he could do, and he was cured of his illness by himself. Because of his father's illness, Lu Xun's attitude toward Chinese medicine was inevitably mixed with personal feelings, especially "after knowing that most of Japan's reform originated from Western medicine." "At that time, China was poor and weak, and it was time for major surgery. However, traditional Chinese medicine was still talking about the theory of transformation of yin and yang and five elements, which has been followed for thousands of years, which seemed particularly inappropriate. Everything was good in Western culture. Everything in Chinese culture was bad. This was the common sense of the New Culture Movement at that time. As a representative of the outdated and backward culture, Chinese medicine was naturally the first to be criticized and many celebrities would rather be misdiagnosed and mistreated by Western medicine than get involved with Chinese medicine. , for fear that it would run counter to the Western scientific concepts they advocate. "I will refuse to consult Chinese medicine until my death, because I feel that if I don't, I will not be able to live up to the education I received." - Fu Sinian said that it was not just those who were affected. As for Chinese medicine, Lu Xun also said: "If Chinese characters are not destroyed, China will perish." "Abolition of Chinese characters and the use of internationally accepted Roman characters is also the mainstream understanding of the New Culture Movement. In their view, Chinese characters are difficult to recognize and write, which hinders the popularization of education and affects the spread of knowledge. Chen Duxiu said; "Chinese characters , since it is difficult to carry new things and new principles, and it is a nest of corrupt ideas, it is not pity to abolish it! "Lu Xun and others are in an era of great change, and they need to cry out and speak out loudly. But in the final analysis, what they oppose is not traditional Chinese medicine or Chinese characters, but they use this to oppose the outdated and self-contained ideas, awaken the ignorant and numb consciousness of most people, and thus welcome the It is important to take stock of these two sentences that Lu Xun said: "Traditional Chinese medicine is a liar, intentionally or unintentionally." This sentence has always been misunderstood by people. And his sentence ""If Chinese characters are not destroyed, China will perish" is a bit wrong. Compared with the Chinese people's own belittlement, foreigners have a different attitude towards China. Martin, a British sinologist, believes that China itself is a civilization. Moreover, there have been no faults in this civilization. Contemporary Chinese can distinguish the Chinese characters on the Qin Dynasty slips with a little care. It is a mature civilization system that has its own metabolism and the rise and fall of the world.

If we blindly reject our own excellent cultural heritage and follow the footsteps of outsiders, there is no guarantee that we will not lose ourselves like the Yan people in the Handan toddlers. Time has proven that with the advancement of science and technology, the development of the Internet, and the intelligence of translation software, Chinese characters have not become an obstacle to cultural exchanges and the spread of new knowledge and technology. At the same time, the effectiveness and rationality of TCM diagnosis and treatment methods have been gradually confirmed by modern medicine and accepted by Western society, which once represented advanced scientific trends. However, some people today are still unable to objectively and scientifically evaluate and understand Chinese medicine. Does this mean that these people’s thoughts are still stuck in the era when they just opened their eyes to see the world? Recently I saw Qian Mu's words, which are very good: "I feel that if the Chinese want to save China, they can only save themselves. There is only one way to save themselves, and that is Chinese culture." These two famous quotes by Lu Xun "Traditional Chinese Medicine" But one is a liar, intentionally or unintentionally. "If Chinese characters are not destroyed, China will perish." This sentence about Chinese characters has been proven to be wrong, and the other sentence is still debated.