From "Preface to A Thousand Gold Prescriptions for Emergencies" written by Sun Simiao of the Tang Dynasty.

The meaning of this sentence: Human life is very important, more valuable than a thousand pieces of gold. Prescribing a prescription to cure a patient's disease is the highest virtue.

Sun Simiao believes that as a doctor, you must first have good qualities. He pointed out in the preface to "A Thousand Gold Prescriptions" that "human life is of the utmost importance, and a thousand gold prescriptions are valuable, and one can help them. The virtue exceeds this, so it is named after it." Here he uses the metaphor that human life is more important than a thousand pieces of gold, which is why he took the word "a thousand pieces of gold" as the true meaning of his book's title.

Content of the work:

Original text: Woohoo! I regret the misfortune of being in vain, but I regret the stupidity of falling into learning. Nai Bo Qun Jing, with heavy cuts and cuts, focuses on simplicity. It is considered to be a volume of "Essential Prescriptions for Emergencies", consisting of thirty volumes. Although the cause of the disease cannot be fully investigated, those who pay attention to it have also thought about it half way through, thinking that human life is of the utmost importance, and if you have precious gold, you can help it, and it has more virtue than this, so it is named after it.

Translation: Hey! I feel very sad for the ghosts of those who died young, and feel pity for the stupidity of those who give up learning. So, I read the classics and deleted the cumbersome and repetitive places to make it concise and easy to understand. In this way, I wrote a book called "Essential Prescriptions for Emergencies", which has thirty volumes.

Although it cannot reveal the causes of all diseases, I think those who pay attention to this book will understand more than half of the causes of diseases. I think human life is the most precious, more than a thousand pieces of gold. Prescribing a prescription to cure a patient's disease is the highest virtue. Therefore, the title of this book is "Essential Prescriptions for Emergencies".