Although Li Ke has always avoided meeting them, it's not that Li Ke is afraid of them. Now that he has met them, Li Ke doesn't care. Instead, he also smiled and said: "I have always heard about the names of these two Taoists, but I have no chance to meet them. I didn't expect today." It's fate. Do you two know Master Sun?"
"Back to Your Highness, Master Sun is a famous Taoist figure, and we should pay him a visit." Li Chunfeng said with a smile.
Yuan Tiangang looked to be in his sixties, much older than Li Chunfeng. The difference was that Yuan Tiangang was recruited to Beijing by Li Shimin in the eighth year of Zhenguan to hold a position in the court.
"That's it, Master Sun, happy New Year." Li Ke said with a smile.
"Happy New Year, Your Highness." Sun Simiao bowed his hand to Li Ke, then looked Li Ke up and down, and then said with a smile: "It seems that everything is new for Your Highness in this New Year!"
I went, Li Ke was a little speechless, these old Chinese doctors were outrageous, obviously Sun Simiao had seen something, otherwise he wouldn't have said this.
"Master Sun really has a keen eye!" Li Ke said with a smile, "But even if you say that, Master Sun, don't even think about going around it. You have to do what I said and move your body every day. Otherwise, if your body doesn't If it’s good, I’d be guilty of a big crime. I heard that Dr. Hua Tuohua’s Five Animals Opera is very good. Why don’t you give it a try?”
Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng were both speechless. What's going on? Why is His Highness the King of Qin concerned about Zhenren Sun's body? This... Isn't it possible that Sun Zhenren himself doesn't know whether he is sick?
It's just... a little outrageous.
"Look, Your Highness King Qin, you are going to see a doctor now, but what you said is right. Wuqinxi is indeed good for the body, and practicing it is good for nothing." Sun Simiao was also a little bit dumbfounded, although he was used to it. , but Lao Sun was somewhat moved by Li Ke's caring attitude. Obviously Li Ke really didn't want anything to happen to him.
"Then it's not impossible for me to treat you. This means that doctors don't treat themselves." Li Ke said with a smile.
Sun Simiao glanced at Li Ke with amusement, then nodded and said: "Although His Highness King Qin does not understand medical skills, he is quite proficient in this medical principle. It makes sense for doctors not to heal themselves."
"It's not the best in medicine. In fact, it's just the best in human behavior. Don't say I'm going to treat you. I also want to give Taoist Yuan a look." Li Ke slightly arched his hands at Yuan Tiangang.
Good guy.
As soon as Li Ke said this, everyone was dumbfounded. Taoists are actually more or less proficient in fortune telling, but not everyone is proficient in it. Take Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang for example, both of them seem to have made achievements in this area. , but what Li Chunfeng is really good at is astronomical observation. To use the words of later generations, it is more about astronomy and meteorology. Li Chunfeng is a real expert.
Of course, the ancients often had miscellaneous studies and were all-rounders. Li Chunfeng was not bad in other aspects, but he was really outstanding in meteorology, meteorology and astronomy. Li Chunfeng was definitely the authority in the Tang Dynasty in this aspect. But Yuan Tiangang is actually quite proficient in astronomy.
Speaking of which, Li Ke is also capable of fighting with the two of them in this regard.
As for Yuan Tiangang, how should I put it? From ancient times to the present, Yuan Tiangang has been praised as a miraculous person, but after Li Ke came to the Tang Dynasty, he had met many miraculous people, so Li Ke knew very well that some of the people who were praised as miraculous in later generations were actually mainly because they had a long history. , there were constantly literati in the middle, adding fuel and jealousy to it throughout the dynasties.
It's like the word-of-mouth game that everyone has played. Anyone who has served in the military knows how outrageous the squad leader's words are when they reach the back of the line.
And after more than a thousand years... it is no exaggeration to say that people who can do a little mysterious things will probably be able to convey miraculous things in the end.
It’s not like we have never experienced it before in the Internet age. It doesn’t take too much. When everyone passes it on, they add a little bit of mystery, and in the end it’s just a fairy tale.
Because this is a common problem among human beings, when we chat with other people or talk about another thing, we always like to use methods such as making friends out of thin air to strengthen our voice and increase the authenticity of what we say in the minds of others. Because this kind of friend can create a feeling that I am closely connected with the event. If the tone is slightly exaggerated, I will have the feeling that I am the one who has experienced it.
The observers will naturally believe your words more, and then in order to make it more interesting, you will exaggerate a little bit. Then when you tell the story to the group of people who tell it to their friends, you become a friend in their mouths, and then... a myth is born.
That's not to say that Li Ke completely denies Yuan Tiangang's strength in physiognomy and other aspects, but Li Ke feels that it is not that mysterious. This should be another kind of induction and statistics.
Constellation science in later generations is a typical science of statistical induction combined with psychology.
For example, when Yuan Tiangang looked at human lifespan, Li Ke actually learned about it in the Tang Dynasty. The Taoist priests in the Tang Dynasty were more or less exposed to medicine. Sun Simiao was a Taoist priest. In other words, many Taoist priests knew this. I hope I can tell you what I'm talking about.
As for the science of physiognomy, Li Ke will make a personal guess. Let’s give an example. Is it possible? For example, as we all know in later generations, a considerable number of children with Down syndrome have larger heads. Even some People with small brains still have related symptoms, and their facial features develop differently from ordinary people.
Then the Taoist ancestors, because they could be said to be the first to practice medicine, discovered this rule. Then some of the forerunners recorded this thing because they did not know the principle, and then they deduced the process based on the results. At the time of recording, it was recorded that the brain development of people with such an appearance was generally relatively slow.
As a very prosperous sect, Taoism has enough believers and people in China, so powerful Taoist priests continue to learn physiognomy, and then gradually verify and modify the knowledge of physiognomy, which is passed down from generation to generation. Learning becomes more and more perfect, which is actually a process of induction.
In this process, coupled with some skills of identifying people, recording them, and guessing a person's character will be close to the same. Just like Sun Simiao, even if he doesn't learn the art of face recognition, do you think that Sun Simiao at this age, after meeting a stranger and talking to him for a few words, can see through his temperament and grooming, and then roughly figure it out? To his character and conduct?
Li Ke felt that it could definitely be done.
Integrating this experience into physiognomy, it is very possible for some people who are smart enough, able to draw inferences from one instance and comprehend everything to become a master of physiognomy.
However, Li Ke said it easily, but Li Chunfeng and Sun Simiao sounded a little speechless. They quite believed in Yuan Tiangang's fortune telling.
