Wang Rong was a great celebrity in the Western Jin Dynasty, listed among the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest", and was also one of the leaders of the scholar clan at that time. But it is very difficult to say where he is "virtuous". The most distinctive characteristic of him is the greed for money. His manor water mill is said to be "all over the world", but when one of his nephews got married, he generously gave a single dress, and after the wedding, he felt distressed again, and the fire was burning, and it was estimated that he would have a heart attack if he didn't take it back, so he ran cheekily to ask for it back. He was not generous to his children. After his daughter got married, she once asked him to borrow tens of thousands of dollars. Tens of thousands of dollars for Wang Rong may be about the same as a few dollars in my pocket. But he remembered it and looked forward to paying it back every day, but his daughter just didn't send the money. Later, when his daughter came home to visit, he looked ugly. The daughter immediately took out the money to pay him back, and Wang Rong "then Naihuan". He had to let people drill through the cores of the plums he bought one by one, for fear that someone would steal his plums.

Such a money fan has a specialty, that is, he can chat, and when he talks, his words are quite moving. In the eyes of Wei Jinshi, this is enough. In addition, he was born in a first-class family, the Lang Evil King's family, so this celebrity, Wang Rong is decided.

Wang Rong has also encountered dangerous moments. In the late Western Jin Dynasty, several princes led soldiers to cut and kill each other and made a pot of porridge. The king of Qi once controlled Luoyang, and another prince, the king of Hejian, wanted to organize a coalition army to defeat the king of Qi. Sima Jian, the king of Qi, convened a meeting to discuss the strategy against the enemy. Wang Rong was a high-ranking official at Shang Shuling, with a rank equivalent to the level of vice premier. He talked eloquently at the meeting: "People lead millions of soldiers, and they are unstoppable. I suggest you retire and go home and live in peace. Retreating bravely from the rapids and giving up power is really the way to go. Sima Jian's advisor was furious and said, "Since the Han and Wei dynasties, has there been a retired prince who can survive?" I suggest that the guy who came up with this bad idea be put to death. "All the officials present were shocked. After Wang Rong heard this, he said that he wanted to go to the toilet. When Wang Rong was away, Sima Jian was seriously considering the advice of the strategist, when he suddenly heard someone calling: "It's amazing, it's amazing, Lord Wang has fallen into the pit!" "After everyone asked Wang Rong to pick him up, they sent the stinking Lord Wang back to the house. Lord Wang claimed that he was a "medicine hair", so he would stumble and fall into the pit. The chaos came down, allowing Wang Rong to escape with his life. Later, Sima Jian was killed, and Wang Rong was still alive.

What is the "medicine hair" that Wang Rong is talking about? Why did the "medicine hair" fall into the pit? This is a problem.

There is one more question about Wang Rong. In ancient times, people paid the most attention to filial piety. The parents died, and the son could no longer hold an official position for several years. During the period of filial piety, the filial son must cry bitterly, do not eat meat or drink, and cannot wear good clothes. When Wang Rong's mother died, he did not follow these rules, and drank wine and ate meat, but the wine and meat did not seem to nourish him, and he looked haggard and weak, and had to walk with a cane. At that time, another official and He Qiao were also observing filial piety, he completely abided by all the rules, and ate rice before eating, for fear of exceeding the dietary standards of filial piety. However, everyone thinks that Wang Rong is more filial than him. The emperor said to his ministers: "He Qiao is too hard to keep filial piety, which is worrying. The minister replied: "He Qiao Ke deducts his own diet and daily life, but he is only "filial piety", but Wang Rong is "filial piety", I think what is really worth worrying about is Wang Rong. "Why did Wang Rong eat meat and drink wine during his filial piety, but he could be understood by everyone and call him a real filial son? This is another problem.

To explain these two issues, it is necessary to talk about a very strange cultural fashion of the Jin Dynasty.

This fashion is to take a poisonous drug, Wushisan. Now when everyone talks about drugs, they immediately think of opium, and feel as if before opium, Chinese have never taken drugs. Actually, this is not true. During the Jin Dynasty, the upper class used drugs on a large scale. Because we can safely say that the damage caused by Wushisan to the human body is by no means under opium, and it is not a loss at all to classify it as a drug.

The so-called "Wushi San" is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine powder. Its main components are stalactites, purple quartz, white quartz, stone sulfur, red stone resin, in addition to some excipients. This powder is said to have been invented by Zhang Zhongjing, who invented this prescription for typhoid patients, because this powder is hot and dry, and has some tonic benefits for typhoid patients. But in the Wei and Jin dynasties, the scholars of the upper class did not have typhoid fever, and they all began to eat. At this time, there have been some adjustments to the formula and Zhang Zhongjing's original prescription, but the main ingredients have not changed.

After this medicine is eaten in the stomach, it needs to be carefully conditioned, which is very troublesome. First of all, you must not lie still after taking it, but walk. Therefore, Wei and Jin celebrities like to take a walk the most, calling it "Xingsan", in fact, this is not because they are particularly fond of exercise, but because they are lazy and lie down to save their lives. In addition to walking, you should also pay special attention to your diet and clothing. After taking it, he had a fever all over his body, and then he became cold, and the symptoms were quite similar to mild malaria. But if they eat hot food and wear thick clothing when they have chills, they will die. Be sure to wear thin clothing, eat something cold, and pour cold water on your body. Therefore, Wushisan is also known as "cold food powder". According to the book, it is ""cold clothes, cold drinks, cold food, cold sleeping, extremely cold is good". Freezing pneumonia, that's your exuberance.

But there is one exception, and that is drinking. Be sure to drink hot wine, and the wine should be good and mellow. Wushisan is very picky about wine, not to mention methanol-mixed wine, which is generally bad wine, it will also have a fierce reaction. And after taking it, you can't stop eating, you must eat a lot of food, and "don't get tired of eating".

In short, after eating, be sure to take a walk, eat plenty of cold food, drink hot wine, wear thin clothes, and take a cool shower.

Goshisan is also the enemy of fashion. After taking the medicine, the skin of the person is particularly sensitive and can be easily worn out. New clothes are relatively hard, so most of the celebrities of the Wei and Jin dynasties hate new clothes, and like to wear soft and shabby, unwashed clothes, which look very hard and simple. For example, Huan Wen, the general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, couldn't stand the new clothes. It's not that he hopes that someone will collect his clothes after his death and hold an "exhibition of General Huan's hard and simple life style", but he really can't stand the hard new clothes. Once, when he got up in the morning to get dressed, his wife deliberately had someone bring him new clothes. Huan Wen was furious when he saw it, and asked people to take it away quickly. His wife said, "How can it become old if you don't wear it?" Huan Wen laughed and put on his new clothes. It is expected that Huan Wen will not be enthusiastic about buying fashion.

The clothes should not only be old, but also wide, so that it does not rub the skin. It's best not to wear shoes, but wear clogs to reduce the contact area with the skin. Mr. Lu Xun said: "When we look at the portraits of the Jin people and the articles at that time, we see that his clothes are wide and he wears clogs without shoes, and we think that he must be very comfortable and elegant, but in fact, he is very bitter in his heart." ”

These shabby garments are easily unwashable. There is a character in Wang Shuo's novel who said that his padded jacket has never been washed in his life, "it can be warm when he wears it", and the celebrities of the Wei and Jin dynasties are not greedy for warmth, but because the washed clothes are too hard, and they can't stand it. Lice can grow in these clothes that have not been washed for years. So you see that those celebrities are so elegant that they look like living immortals, which are beyond the reach of modern petty bourgeoisie. For example, Wang Gong (who was later defeated and killed in the struggle for power), wearing a wide crane fur, walked on his shoulders in the light snow season, and the people who saw it felt simply handsome, and called him "a man among the immortals", but if you peel off the crane fur of this immortal man, most of you will find that he is crawling all over his body.

In the Wei and Jin dynasties, it was considered an elegant thing to put your hand into your clothes to catch lice while chatting. The dervishes of the Middle Ages revered lice and said that it was "the pearl of God", a statement that the famous people of the Wei and Jin dynasties would definitely agree with after hearing it. Some celebrities and gentlemen didn't care about the guests when they saw them, they just cared about picking up the "pearl of God" on their bodies, just like Wang Hu in "The True Story of Ah Q", but the guests were not angry, if they were angry about such an elegant thing, they could only show that they were vulgar. As for why it is elegant, I don't understand, but I think that if those scholars had to crawl and walk after taking the medicine, I guess crawling would also be considered an extremely elegant thing.

Taking medication is not just a matter of causing certain inconveniences in life. If you are not careful, something goes wrong in a link, and the consequences are very serious. After taking the medicine, the Eastern Jin Dynasty celebrity Emperor Fu Mi described that after taking the medicine, he was not properly discharged and fell seriously ill. He said that he had endured terrible suffering: "In the middle of winter, eating ice naked, and in summer it is even more unbearable, like malaria typhoid fever, and my body is swollen and my limbs are sore, and I can only cry out." He couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to commit suicide with a knife, but his uncle tried hard to dissuade him and survived.

Huangfu Mi said: "Many people made mistakes and died. My brother is so painful that his tongue is in his throat. Wang Liangfu, a native of the East China Sea, had a carbuncle deep in his back, Xin Changxu in Longxi, his spine was completely ulcerated, and Zhao Gonglie of Shu County, six of his middle cousins died because of this. This is all caused by taking cold food powder, although I am still alive, but I am also surviving, and I am a laughing stock. ”

Taking medicine is so troublesome and dangerous, but why can it be popular in the upper class society of the Jin Dynasty? Later, Wushisan became popular in the upper class society, no less than opium in the late Qing Dynasty. It's just that because of the high cost of Wushisan itself and the cumbersomeness of conditioning, it has not penetrated into the folk. This is also the ancestor of the people of the Jin Dynasty, so as to avoid this catastrophe. The popularity of Wushisan naturally has its reason. After the five stones are taken apart, they can indeed produce a wonderful reaction to people.

First of all, Wushisan has a similar function. After taking the medicine, the human body suddenly chills and suddenly heats, and the body does temporarily fall into an inexplicable pain, but the spirit can enter a state of trance and self-forgetfulness. The troubles of the world, the confusion of the heart, can be forgotten, and what remains is a feeling of otherworldliness. At such a moment, you can take "heaven and earth as one day, ten thousand periods as a moment, the sun and the moon as a bureau, and the eight wildernesses as the court", and do not pay attention to anything, and do nothing worthy of restraining yourself, only an inflated self-consciousness, and do whatever you want. In short, it's a bit like getting drunk, maybe physiologically different from drunkenness, but it's also psychoanaesthetic.

People in this state of mind will be more or less tolerant. I said some things that were out of line and did something out of the ordinary, and I was forgiven. What is true compared to a confused person? Of course, someone might protest and say, "How do you know it's confusing?" How do you know that your daily life is not confused, but you are awake at the moment? For such a philosophical question, I can only suggest that the questioner should start his own hands, take a dose of food, and see if he is confused or sober.

Knowing the situation of Wushisan, we can answer the previous two questions about Wang Rong.

First of all, Wang Rong made a lot of nonsense and suggested that Sima Jian should be restrained, which was easy for Sima Jian to think that his position was vacillating and that he was suspected of rebellion and surrender. In fact, Sima Jian was already seriously considering whether to put him to death. However, Wang Rong later fell into the pit and showed symptoms of mental trance, and his speech could be regarded as nonsense after taking the medicine, and was gently let go.

Secondly, during Wang Rong's mourning, his mood was indeed so sad that he was so sad that he was so sad that he was broken. Because of this, he is called "dead filial piety", but he has been taking Wushi powder for a long time, he must drink alcohol and eat meat, and he must also be full, and he must not be hungry, otherwise he will easily risk his life. At that time, the scholars could fully understand his distress and did not require him with the etiquette of filial piety.

According to the views of people at the time, Wushisan can not only have an effect, but also a treasure medicine for longevity. Qin Chengzu, a famous doctor of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, once spoke highly of Wushisan, saying that it was "the Yinghua of production, the leader of the group", although it could not soar through the clouds and fog and be reborn, but it could indeed prolong life and have a great effect. Song Shang, another doctor in the Western Jin Dynasty, even asserted that Wushi San was really a panacea-like thing to cure all diseases. When Emperor Fu Mi, who was eating ice naked, heard his words, he would definitely be furious and demand that he be punished for the crime of bewitching the public.

From the point of view of modern medicine, Wushisan is naturally not a panacea for all diseases. But it is undeniable that it does have an aphrodisiac effect. Therefore, it is not enough to summarize the function of Wushisan by analogy. It also doubles with Viagra.

Speaking of which, we can examine the medicinal efficacy of the main raw materials in Wushi San:

Stone stalactites:

Efficacy: Warm the lungs, strengthen the yang, and lower the milk. Indications: Treatment of fatigue, wheezing and cough, impotence, cold paralysis of waist and feet, milk blockage, etc.

White Quartz:

Efficacy: Warm the lungs and kidneys, reassure the nerves, and facilitate urination. Indications: Treatment of lung cold, cough and asthma, impotence, palpitations, forgetfulness, poor urination, etc.

Stone Sulfur:

Efficacy: Aphrodisiac, insecticidal. Indications: internal administration for the treatment of impotence, deficiency and cold diarrhea, cold and constipation.

Red halloysite:

Efficacy: astringent intestines, astringent hemostasis, damp sores, muscle-building. Indications: Treatment of spermatozoa, prolonged diarrhea, blood in the stool, prolapse of the anus, leakage, belt down, ulcer inaccuracing, etc.

Amethyst:

Efficacy: calms the heart, calms the nerves, reduces adverse qi, warms*. Indications: Treatment of fatigue and palpitations, cough and upward qi, women's blood deficiency and cold, infertility.

It can be seen from the medicinal effect that except for purple quartz, which is used for "warmth*", the other four have aphrodisiac use. Those Wei Jinshi people have nothing to warm, what they want is clear.

He Yan, the initiator of taking Wushisan, is a handsome little guy with a fair complexion and a narcissistic addiction, who never leaves his powder all day long, touches up his makeup casually, and is also a good friend of the mirror. He married the princess of the Wei Dynasty, and as a concubine, he still refused to be a man, engaging in women everywhere, and his lustful heart was irrepressible. He first took Goshisan, which is said to be due to its aphrodisiac properties. Otherwise, he is a white-faced scholar, and he is good at chatting with powder, and he is by no means a physical athlete, and he really can't deal with many women. He claimed that after taking Wushisan, his health had improved greatly and he was "enlightened". Huangfu Mi said: "He Yan loves women, and he started taking Wushi San, and his physical strength immediately became stronger. This time it caused a sensation in the capital, and everyone rushed to take it. Years of troubles were solved in one fell swoop. The meaning of the text is very obvious, what is the "everyone" and "many years of trouble", even those who are as pure as me can guess immediately. At that time, Viagra was originally a medicine for the treatment of heart disease, but it was suddenly discovered that it had an aphrodisiac effect, which gave everyone a surprise, and sales immediately soared. The situation of Wushisan is exactly the same, it was not originally an aphrodisiac, but it was improved by He Yan, who was willing to be the first in the world, and it could actually solve the "troubles of many years", so it suddenly occupied the vast pharmaceutical market of the Jin Dynasty.

Some people even speculate that after eating Wushisan, the skin is hot, and it is not allowed to wear thick and hard clothes, which shows that the sensitivity of the skin will inevitably increase, and sexual contact can enhance pleasure, this statement has no conclusive evidence, so it will be ignored here.

Although it is difficult to say and hidden, once you take it, but the thin body, only relying on aphrodisiacs, is not a good way to nourish the body after all. In today's words, "If you mix in the way, you always have to pay it back." The face-to-face person's evaluation of He Yan later: "The soul does not guard the house, the blood is not gorgeous, the essence is smoky, and the appearance is like a tree, which is called ghostly." The ghostly are burned by fire. "A handsome guy finally fell into the situation of "Rong Ruomu", who can blame him if he doesn't blame Wushisan?