Li Shizhen (1565438+July 3, 2008-1593), born in Qihou, Hubei Province (now qi zhou Town, Qichun County, Hubei Province), was a famous physician in Ming Dynasty. As a "medical sage", Wan Mizhai had the ancient saying that "Wan Mizhai's prescription is Li Shizhen's medicine". Later, he was sentenced by Chu Palace and Royal Hospital. After his death, the Ming court named him "Wen Linlang". ?

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.

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 has also studied pulse science and eight strange meridians, and his works include Study on Eight Strange Meridians and Pulse Science on the Lake. ? He was honored as a "medicine saint" by later generations. 1982, its cemetery Li Shizhen Cemetery (Li Shizhen Tomb) was listed as the second batch of "national key cultural relics protection units" by the State Council.