Information on Li Shizhen, Edison and Qi Baishi

Li Shizhen (1518-1593), whose real name was Dongbi, was born in Hushan in his later years. He was born in Waxieba (now Doctor Street), Dongchang Street, qi zhou, Qichun County, Hubei Province, and was a famous physician in Ming Dynasty. Later, he was sentenced by Chu Palace and Royal Hospital. After his death, the Ming court named him "Wen Linlang".

Since 1565, Li Shizhen has been to Wudang Mountain, Lushan Mountain, Maoshan Mountain, Niushou Mountain, Huguang, Anhui, Henan, Hebei and other places to collect drug specimens and prescriptions.

He also learned from fishermen, woodcutters, farmers, rickshaws, medical workers and snake catchers, consulted 925 books on medicine in past dynasties, recorded tens of millions of words, and found many difficult problems.

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. Be respected by future generations? "medicine sage"

2.edison

Thomas Alva Edison (1847, February11-1,10, 10/8) was born in Milan, Ohio. Inventors and entrepreneurs.

Edison was the first person in human history to make use of a large number of production principles and electrical engineering research laboratories to patent inventions, which had a far-reaching impact on the world. His invention of the phonograph, movie camera and electric light had a great influence on the world. He had more than 2,000 inventions and 1000 patents in his life.

3. Qi Baishi

Qi Baishi (65438+65438 in 0864, 10 65438-0957+65438 in September 2006) was born in Xiangtan, Changsha, Hunan (now Xiangtan, Hunan).

Formerly known as Chunzhi, Wei Qing was named Lanting. Later, it was renamed Huang, and the word was born. Named Baishi, Baishishan Weng, Laoping, Hongcuo, the owner of the mountain pavilion, the old man who sent Pingtang, and the rich man of 300 lithographs.

He is a master of modern painting in China and a world cultural celebrity. He worked as a carpenter in his early years, then made a living by selling paintings, and settled in Beijing after he was 57. He is good at painting flowers and birds, insects and fish, landscapes and figures. His pen and ink are vigorous and moist, with rich and bright colors, concise and vivid shapes and simple artistic conception. Fish, shrimp, worms and crabs are full of fun.

Qi Baishi is a seal script writer, who adopted the method of inscriptions in Qin and Han Dynasties. His calligraphy saved Gu Zhuo's interest, and seal script became his own. He was also good at writing poems. He used to be honorary professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts and chairman of China Artists Association. Representative works include Frog Rang Ten Miles Away from the Mountain Spring and Ink Shrimp. He is the author of "Bai Shi Shi Hua" and "Bai Shi Old Man's Self-report".

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1, works by Li Shizhen

Compendium of Materia Medica, 52 volumes. Li Shizhen (Dongbi) in Ming Dynasty was written in the 31st year of Jiajing (1552) to the 6th year of Wanli (1578), and it was revised three times. This book is written in the style of "following the outline", so it is named "Outline".

Revise it based on Zheng Ben Cao. The preface (volume 1, 2) is equivalent to the general introduction, which describes the main references of materia medica and the theory of medicinal properties. Volume 1 Materia Medica of Past Dynasties introduces 4 1 species of main materia medica before the Ming Dynasty.

The second time, I collected the discourses about the yin-yang smell of drugs, five taboos, specimen yin-yang, ups and downs, reinforcing and reducing, quoting classics, and various drug taboos before the Ming Dynasty, most of which were in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties.

Volumes 3 ~ 4 are "Indicating Drugs for All Diseases", which follow the old example of "General Drugs for All Diseases" in "Herbal Medicine of Syndrome Types", and list the names and main functions of indications with pathogens as the key link, which is equivalent to a manual of clinical medication.

Volumes 5-52 are all about the theory, including 1892 kinds of drugs, and the attached figure is 1 109 kinds. Its general example is "there is no difference between the three products, but one after another;" Birds of a feather flock together.

2. Edison invented

1879 10, Edison finally succeeded in making an incandescent light bulb with carbon fiber as the filament, which is called "carbonized cotton filament incandescent lamp". Later, a large number of incandescent lamps were put into production, and companies were established to establish corresponding power stations, transmission networks and other infrastructure, which soon made electric lamps widely used in the United States.

During this period, he constantly improved his technology, and finally decided to use tungsten wire as the filament, which is called "tungsten lamp" and has been used ever since, so Edison became a recognized inventor of electric lamp.

3. Qi Baishi's works

Frog Ringing in Ten Miles of Mountain Springs is an ink painting that Qi Baishi painted for Lao She, a China writer, when he was 9 1 year old. Qi Baishi painted a double-walled mountain stream with Jiao Mo, with a swift current in the middle, several hills in the distance with azurite and six tadpoles in the water. Mother frog is at the other end of the mountain, and the sound of frogs floats ten miles along the mountain stream.

"Frogs ten miles away from the mountain spring" was later included in the complete works of Qi Baishi and printed as a stamp. Become one of Qi Baishi's representative works, famous at home and abroad.