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The composition of alchemists is very complicated, ranging from knowledgeable intellectuals to uneducated charlatans. There are not only scholars engaged in traditional science and technology research, but also ordinary farmers and businessmen, as well as politicians who go in and out of the court, and most of them are hermits and Taoists. Some have no fewer than three officials and nine ministers, and are honored by the emperor. Some are similar to beggars and are classified as inferior by the people. Alchemists in history were people with special skills. In the Song Dynasty, The Old Man's Repeated Victory in the West Lake recorded: "There are more than 300 warlocks on both sides of Shi Ying in Yujie. There are many kinds of lanterns, either for screens, for paintings, for story characters, or for puppet ghosts and gods to exorcise evil spirits. " These people have their own strengths and are quite mysterious in the Jianghu.
So don't be paranoid and generalize about the evaluation of others. Some alchemists have made important contributions to China culture, such as Bian Que, Ge Hong, Monks and his party, Shao Yong and Zhang Junfang. They have made outstanding achievements in medicine, astronomy, calendar and philosophy. Some alchemists, such as Guan Ju, Xiao Ji, Cai, Chen Tuan and Zhang Sanfeng, need to be reevaluated. Some alchemists kill people for money by hook or by crook, and they are human pests.
The alchemist is a complex social group and plays an important role in politics, economy and culture. Therefore, the official history of all dynasties is …
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