[Analysis of Xin'an imperial medical officials in the Ming and Qing Dynasties].
Xin'an imperial medical officials of the Ming and Qing Dynasties was a special group of Xin'an doctors. It had exerted a positive and active impact on the development of traditional Chinese medicine. Rooted in the Xin'an region, with higher literacy and noble medical ethics and medical knowhow, through the imperial enlistment, examination, and other ways to enter the palace as imperial medical officials. During their tenure, they wrote books and communicated and merged with the folk medicine actively. After retiring, they were still involved actively in folk medicine activities, thus promoting and influencing the development of local medicine. The formation of Xin'an community of imperial medical officials in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was closely related to the prosperity of regional culture and commerce, and the development of medicine in Xin'an region.
Archaeology Postdoctoral Station of Anhui University.
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TCM Clinical College, Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230038.
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Center for Hui Studies, Anhui University, Hefei, 230039, China.
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Doctors of Xin’an medical school; Imperial medical official; Imperial medicine