Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 272 How about I compile the first edition of "Chinese Herbal Medicine Processing"? (3K)

This behavior reminded Fang Yan of Liang Xiaosheng, who also wrote a novel based on his brother.

Fangyan thought about it and decided, isn’t it based on himself?

Just consider it as a dedication to art.

He said:
"Just don't make your story too melodramatic. I don't have the rich emotions in your story."

Fang Chen said:

"Of course not. This is a story based on traditional Chinese medicine. It aims to promote traditional Chinese medicine by telling the story of educated youth returning to the city. I will definitely make you a very wise doctor."

Hearing this, Fang Yan nodded and said:

"Okay, go ahead and write it. If you have any questions about Chinese medicine that you don't understand, you can always consult me. I'll be your consultant for free."

Fang Chen said:

"There's no rush now. I plan to start writing after I come back from Inner Mongolia to see my elder sister."

Fangyan nodded and reminded:

"The most important thing for you now is to finish the matter of your new book."

"I'll invite someone over tomorrow. Have you thought about what you want from them?"

Fang Chen felt a little headache when he heard this, and said to Fang Yan:

"Brother, I really haven't thought about this. I have never been in this industry and have never experienced these situations. I don't know how to negotiate terms."

So Fang Yan took out a small notebook from his jacket pocket and handed it to Fang Chen:
"Take it!"

"What is this?" Fang Chen took it curiously.

After opening it, he found that it was filled with densely packed negotiation requirements.

Fangyan said to the younger brother:

"You've been writing these days and haven't had time to think about these things, so I helped you think of some and wrote them down."

"There are three parts to this. We need to try to protect your rights and interests, and at the same time, try to get as many benefits as possible while maintaining the bottom line. I advocate that the conditions for royalties can be relaxed, but we must strive for their maximum resource investment in publicity. They are very optimistic about your book now, so some conditions are easier to negotiate."

"Everything you do now is based on becoming famous. Promote your work first and make the biggest impact possible."

"Okay." After hearing what his third brother said, Fang Chen's thoughts became clearer. He nodded in response and quickly looked at what was written in dialect.

The dialect reminded:
"In addition to Chen Huaikai coming tomorrow, there will also be a cadre from the Writers Association who will recommend and invite you to join the Writers Association. This is a good thing, so don't refuse. Then just stay humble. These are all seniors, so give them enough face when you speak."

"Let's invite them to dinner tonight. I'll take care of what to eat, and you just need to be responsible for coaxing them."

Fang Chen nodded:
"Got it! I'm good at this!"

Fangyan glanced at his watch:
"Okay, you can study it slowly tonight. Kill the chicken first. I'll wait for it to be stewed."

The younger brother nodded, quickly put away the notebook, and started to do the work assigned by his brother.

The sky is big and the earth is big, and eating is the biggest thing.

……

As soon as the workday ended, Zhu Lin came back and went to the kitchen to help Fang Yan prepare dinner.

I was a little curious when I saw the medicine Fangyan bought, and asked if it was a medicinal food.

Fangyan told the queen that this was for her to eat.

Recently, seeing that she was about to be converted to a full-time employee and was under a lot of mental pressure, I prepared a bowl of pine nut soup for her.

However, this is time-consuming and laborious, and I can only do it after dinner.

Now let’s make ginseng stewed black chicken.

Seeing that Fang Yan was actually going to stew two ginsengs this time, Zhu Lin said with some distress:
"I don't have any disease, it's just a mental problem. I can adjust myself. It's a waste to use such good ginseng."

Fang Yan said to her:
"You are my wife, no matter how expensive it is, it is not a waste."

The queen blushed when she heard this, but she was obviously feeling very happy.

Nowadays, people are more reserved in expressing their feelings, and any rustic love words in dialect seem so charming that the queen can't stop.

After expressing her attitude, Zhu Lin no longer talked about whether it was a waste or not. Her husband said that it was what she should do and no one could say anything.

After Lao Si finished preparing the chicken outside, Fangyan started to blanch it, then put it in a casserole and simmered it on low heat.

At the same time, I also cooked other dishes.

After this meal tonight, I finally finished eating the vegetables that Director Hu from the Union Hospital across the street sent me.

It was delivered last week and was eaten up this Wednesday. With so many people in Fangyan's family, Fangyan even wanted to open a piece of land in the yard to grow vegetables.

However, the floor of this courtyard was paved with blue bricks from the Ming Dynasty, and Fangyan was really reluctant to pry them open.

In the end, all I could think of was getting a few wooden boxes or flower pots, digging some soil to build a fence, and then planting some high-yield vegetables.

Now that I don’t know what to plant, I’ll just plant some onions, leeks, and garlic.

When he has free time on weekends, he takes his wife to build a small vegetable garden.

Now it is September, and when the weather gets cold, it will be enough for them to eat the green onions and leeks they grow themselves several times.

After a while, my father and father-in-law also came from Beihang University.

They also brought the latest news that the higher authorities have issued a "Notice on Convening the National Science Conference" and will hold a preparatory meeting for the conference on September 9. As professors of BIT, they will also attend the conference.

I knew that the formal meeting of the conference should be held in March 1978, but I didn’t know that there would be a preparatory meeting for the conference.

It seems that since my father-in-law and father were invited to participate, they must have some status in the scientific community.

That night, my father-in-law said that they planned to have some hot pot meat to celebrate the invitation they received today. Fortunately, Fangyan hadn't cooked many dishes yet, so he agreed. Because they had eaten hot pot meat at noon, except for my father-in-law and my father, no one else was so enthusiastic about it.

After all, who would want to eat frozen mutton when there are fresh black-bone chicken meat to eat?

After dinner, Fang Yan returned to the kitchen and started making pine nut soup for his wife.

Several medicinal herbs need to be processed in dialect before they can be made into soup.

This is the second time he has personally prepared Chinese medicine in such a long time.

The last time I did this was when I was preparing pig’s hoof.

In his previous life, when he was in school, Fangyan had systematically studied the methods of preparation and was not unfamiliar with these techniques.

It is no longer possible to find out who invented this type of Chinese medicine preparation.

It came into being with the discovery and application of traditional Chinese medicine. The craft of preparing traditional Chinese medicine has existed since the beginning of traditional Chinese medicine.

It has a long history and can be traced back to primitive society.

The initial processing of traditional Chinese medicine used the simplest methods of washing, cutting and pounding.

Subsequently, the high-temperature processing methods of "roasting" and "stir-frying" appeared.

"Pao" and "Zhi" both originate from food processing. The origin of Chinese medicine processing lies in the processing of raw food to cooked food.

The "roasting" here is quite different from that in later generations.

Sand, honey, etc. will not be used.

Early processing mainly involved simply using fire to process medicines.

This knowledge of using fire to cook raw materials was gradually applied to the processing of medicines, thus forming the prototype of Chinese medicine processing.

After the invention of wine, other methods such as wine soaking, wine immersion and wine frying appeared.

The invention of pottery added steaming, boiling, calcining, firing, refining and boiling.

It was not until the Tang Dynasty that the principles of processing began to be systematized and detailed records of processing methods began to appear. The Newly Revised Materia Medica, the world's earliest pharmacopoeia from the Tang Dynasty, put forward detailed rules for processing.

At the same time, books such as "Prescriptions for Emergencies Worth a Thousand Gold Pieces", "Winged Prescriptions for Thousand Gold Pieces", "Compendium of Materia Medica for Food Therapy", "Secret Prescriptions from the Imperial Pharmacy", and "Prescriptions for Treating Injuries and Suspected Injuries by Immortals" also record some processing techniques that have been passed down to this day, and the various methods have become more complicated.

For example, the Huangjing that people chew every day in Fangyan is made using a complicated method of nine steaming and nine drying, and the time consumed is calculated in days.

During the Song Dynasty, the processing method reappeared and advanced.

They started by reducing side effects and increasing therapeutic effects, such as water flying, vinegar quenching, pounding, paper stewing, flour stewing, making croton cream, and soaking atractylodes in rice water.

In modern times, clerks in pharmacies would spend more than ten years learning processing techniques and were required to be proficient in all kinds of medicines. Only under such strict requirements can the efficacy of processed medicinal materials and the inheritance of this technology be guaranteed.

In modern times, this kind of method is still in use. The textbook that Fangyan studied in school in his previous life was the 2001 edition of "Chinese Materia Medica Processing". The processing techniques he learned today were all learned from it.

It is worth mentioning that there was no textbook “Chinese Materia Medica Processing” in Chinese medicine colleges in 1977. The earliest “Chinese Materia Medica Processing” was not created until 1979 and was compiled and published by Peking Union Medical College Press.

When Fangyan saw Lao Si writing a book, he thought to himself, why not write "Chinese Materia Medica Processing" in advance, so that he can have a place in the Chinese traditional medicine industry after the founding of the People's Republic of China?

The compiler of the first modern edition of "Chinese Materia Medica Processing" - Fang Yan.

It sounds like it's quite classy?
Even now, Fangyan is still quite busy. He has to finish writing about so many medicinal materials in "Chinese Materia Medica Processing", which will take him a lot of time.

Even if he remembered it clearly in his mind, there were too many words.

Do I need a computer that can type? That may be decades away, right?
For a moment, Fangyan's thoughts became a little vague.

……

He was busy in the kitchen for a while, and his wife finished cleaning the house and came over.

When she has nothing to do, she likes to stay with Fangyan.

At this moment Fangyan had just prepared the angelica and Sichuan pepper with wine, and then started to stir-fry the pine nuts.

If you strictly follow the traditional method, you cannot use an iron pan or iron shovel to fry this thing, because metal overcomes wood, so you can only use a clay pot and a wooden shovel to fry it.

"It smells a bit nice." Zhu Lin twitched his nose a few times and said to Fang Yan.

Fangyan pointed at the pine nuts in the casserole and asked:
"Do you think it looks familiar?"

Zhu Lin shook his head:
"It seems familiar, what is this?"

The dialect said:

"These are the seeds from the cypress trees in our yard."

Zhu Lin was surprised:
"Really? You picked them in the yard?"

Fangyan shook his head:
"No, arborvitae seeds mature only in autumn and winter. It's useless to pick them now. These are the arborvitae seeds I bought from Tong Ren Tang last year."

Zhu Lin looked at the bright yellow cypress seeds and said:

“I never thought that the seeds of Platycladus orientalis could be used to make soup and medicine?”

The dialect said:

"Of course not. It nourishes the heart and calms life, moistens the body and relieves constipation. It can also treat your symptoms of restlessness and insomnia. It is a good thing. In the Han Dynasty, it was even regarded as a longevity medicine."

"So, we have longevity herbs planted in our yard?" Zhu Lin's curiosity was immediately piqued.

She likes to listen to stories from ancient books told in dialect.

Seeing that his wife was interested, Fang Yan said:

"Anyway, that's what the book says. It says that a maid of Qin Shi Huang ate it and lived until the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, when she was found in the mountains."

(End of this chapter)