In 1956, Shen Fu filmed the movie "Li Shizhen", a biopic produced by Shanghai Film Studio, directed by Shen Fu, starring Zhao Dan, and released in 1956.

Plot summary

In Qizhou, Hubei Province during the Ming Dynasty, Li Yuechi and Li Shizhen were famous for their superb medical skills. Bao Xiangshen used the wrong "Compendium of Materia Medica" to treat patients and sold fake medicines. Li Shizhen bluntly pointed out that he offended him. Li Shizhen cured the son of the King of Chu. He did not want money or official position, but asked the King of Chu to report to the emperor to rebuild the "Materia Medica".

Li Shizhen, who entered Taiyuan Hospital, was dissatisfied with the arrogance and pedantry of Taiyuan Hospital, so she resigned and returned to her hometown determined to revise "Materia Medica" by herself. When the people learned about this, they donated their secret recipes to support him. In order to verify the efficacy of herbal medicines, Li Shizhen and her apprentice Pang Xian traveled far and wide to collect the herbs themselves, and received enthusiastic help from local herbal farmers.

Once, Li Shizhen and others encountered evil obstacles, and their precious medicine notes were burned. The doctor who followed him, Lao Wei, also fell to his death trying to save the notes. But Li Shizhen did not give up, and collected herbs again and wrote down notes. Later, Li Shizhen spent several years organizing the notes into a book called "Compendium of Materia Medica".

However, the book failed to come out after many twists and turns. It was not until three years after Li Shizhen's death that this great pharmacological work, which condensed Li Shizhen's thirty years of hard work, was finally printed and circulated for eternity, benefiting the world. civil.

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Summary of the TV series "Li Shizhen" of the same name

In order to save the world and save the people, Li Shizhen persuaded her father to become a doctor. He worked hard to learn medical knowledge, and later became famous after he cured Princess Zhu Yunyun of Jingduan Princess of Qizhou from paralysis. This aroused the jealousy of the alchemy Taoist priests, who used various despicable means to murder Li Shizhen. In adversity, Li Shizhen saved the day time and time again.

After the death of Emperor Jiajing, Li Shizhen, with the support of Zhang Juzheng, resolutely resigned from his post as judge in the right courtyard of Taiyuan Hospital and began to write the "Compendium of Materia Medica" alone in order to revive the Materia Medica. Taoist Jin Wanchun and Zhizhou Wang Shouli were afraid of Li Shizhen's success. Li Shizhen's home and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" he had written with his lifelong efforts were set on fire.

Li Shizhen passed away with regret. Li Shizhen's son Li Jianyuan and his apprentice Pang Xian found the princess Zhu Yunyun with a copy of "Compendium of Materia Medica" hidden in the mountains, which enabled Li Shizhen's posthumous work "Compendium of Materia Medica" to be published and quickly spread throughout the country and abroad.