Chapter 16 Go to Kuanjie Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
The little old man continued to explain:
"It stands to reason that corn noodles are indeed yellow. They are made from fine corn kernels and ground into powder. The coarse particles are sifted out several times and some wheat flour is added. It looks fine and soft. The steamed pancakes are especially delicious. < br>
But that kind of cornmeal can only be regarded as a fine grain, and you can’t eat it now.
You see, the color is wrong. This is because when the corn noodle is processed, the corn kernels and corn cobs are ground together into powder, which makes it look like this. It is considered a coarse grain. ”
Lin Sanqi was a little surprised: "Corn cobs? Aren't they all used to make fires?"
In fact, what Lin Sanqi doesn't know is that corn can be ground into powder together with the cob in 2023, but it is fed to pigs and not for human consumption at all.
A middle-aged woman also smiled and said:
"Corn cobs not only burn the fire, they also make you hungry. You see, one kilogram of corn flour can now be replaced by four kilograms of cornmeal, which is enough for the family to eat for two days. It's good to have something to eat these days. Who expects to eat white flour steamed buns? Steamed bun? ”
Lin Sanqi scratched his head, thinking that since we have reached this era, it is best to ask about some common sense of life:
"Then, what kind of grain is considered coarse grain?"
It is estimated that the middle-aged and elderly people who came to buy food were also free. Everyone was happy to tease this young man from the south, so the old man continued to popularize science:
"That's a lot to say. Anyway, except for rice and flour, everything else is considered to be whole grains. For example, sweet potatoes, mixed beans, pumpkins, corn noodles, and sorghum rice are all considered to be whole grains. To sum up, they are not delicious and difficult to swallow. .”
Lin Sanqi thought to herself, if these ingredients are released to future generations, they are just healthy food. The feng shui is really changing.
An old lady added:
"If there is not enough to eat, I will go to the countryside to dig wild vegetables, such as locust flowers, elm leaves, radish tassels, and cabbage roots. These are all edible, but Guanyin soil is not available, and our Sijiu City does not produce this stuff. Son.”
Hehehe~~~
Everyone around them laughed, obviously enjoying themselves.
Lin Sanqi also giggled, and when she laughed, she was thinking about the dazzling array of ingredients at Dong'an Market in the morning, as well as the gluttonous diners.
Jin Caifeng has already come out of the grain station.
When I came out, I had a red book in my hand with the "Food Supply Certificate for Peking City Residents" written on it, as well as a bunch of food stamps.
"Qizai, look, this is the guy you eat with. After reading this, grandma will help you put it away. Without this food book, you will really be hungry in the future."
Lin Sanqi took the food book and looked at it, then picked up the food stamps to study.
He had used the computer to buy food stamps before. They were like small renminbi and beautifully printed, but the food stamps in 1959 were very rough.
Not only is the paper very rough, but the printing is also very rough, probably because the printing technology of this era is still relatively backward.
Food stamps are divided into national food stamps and local food stamps. Small citizens like Lin Sanqi can only get local food stamps, and they are not recognized by other areas outside the Forty-Nine City.
If it is a national food stamp, coupled with a letter of introduction and a work permit, you can travel all over the country without fear.
Looking at this crude, unskilled food stamp, an evil thought suddenly appeared in Lin Sanqi's mind, and he couldn't suppress it...
The Lin family's mother and son came out of the grain station and turned around a few alleys before arriving home.
Jin Caifeng put down the meat and vegetables and led her son towards Kuanjie Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
Kuanjie Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is actually officially called: Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
It is the first public professional traditional Chinese medicine hospital after the founding of New China. The institute is located in the back street of the Art Museum. It is located in the northeast corner of the imperial city of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and is close to the imperial city.
The original site of Kuanjie Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital was the Prince Cheng's Mansion, Yunmi, the 24th son of Emperor Kangxi, so you can imagine its grand scale.
When the Kuanjie Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine was first established, more than 30 well-known doctors from the Fourth and Nine Cities who opened private clinics were gathered together and became employees of the state unit.
(Private buying and selling is not allowed, and of course private clinics are not allowed)
However, just having doctors in four or nine cities cannot show the importance of the first traditional Chinese medicine hospital in New China.
This is a model project. Either don’t do it, or do it as best as possible. So the central government issued a recruitment order to all parts of the country, requiring each province to send a traditional Chinese medicine doctor to work in the capital.
Lin Sophora flavescens is a famous typhoid doctor in Dongguang Province, and Li Jingming is a famous traditional Chinese medicine orthopedic surgeon in Dongguang Province, so they were selected. On the premise that the two families volunteered, they came to the north to support the capital.
The four famous doctors in Peking are Shi Jinmo, Xiao Longyou, Kong Bohua and Wang Fengchun.
Except for Mr. Wang Fengchun who died of illness in 1949, all the other three were admitted to Kuanjie Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
There are eight major schools of traditional Chinese medicine, all of which are staffed by top-notch Chinese medicine practitioners. Each one of them is at the level of a "big country expert", and each Chinese medicine practitioner even has his or her own exclusive secret.
To describe it this way, the technical strength and clinical level of Kuanjie Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital during this period were absolutely "unprecedented".
The development of traditional Chinese medicine in the following decades also proved that Kuanjie Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in 1959 was also "unparalleled".
Because by the early 1980s, almost all of those famous Chinese medicine doctors and great national practitioners with unique skills and secret recipes were dead.
Most of the famous old Chinese medicine practitioners failed to pass down their legacy due to various reasons. At that time, either no one could teach them, or no one dared to learn them. It was a pity.
Unlike Western medicine, the subject of traditional Chinese medicine can be taught systematically.
If Chinese medicine is not taught by a master and does not have thousands of years of experience to support it, and you have to rely on yourself to understand it with a copy of the "Huangdi Neijing", you will not be able to fully understand it.
Go east from Dadengeng Hutong and turn left at the entrance of the alley to reach Kuanjie Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
Lin Sanqi followed her mother out of curiosity and the mentality of a tourist.
Walking to the entrance of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Lin Sanqi found that hospitals are the busiest places in any era.
Even in the most difficult period of 1959, Kuanjie Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital was still bustling with people coming and going.
Jin Caifeng introduced her youngest son one by one:
"Look, this is the pharmacy. From here is the acupuncture department where your second brother works. Let's go to the other side. This is the outpatient clinic of the doctor. Your father and eldest brother work here."
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Lin Sanqi walked all the way and found that the door of every clinic was surrounded by patients.
Judging from the clothes of these patients, some are in Chinese tunic suits with a pen on their chest. They should be new era intellectuals;
Some are men's suits and women's cheongsams, and they are obviously old-school intellectuals or capitalists.
Don’t doubt it, there were still capitalists at this time, it was a public-private partnership. Although the capitalists before liberation did not participate in the operation, they still paid equity dividends, so these people were not short of money.
But real poor people in ragged clothes seem to be rare...
(End of chapter)