The Famous Doctor Awang

A Wang was born, and his father, mother, grandfather, and grandmother all died one after another. The villagers once regarded him as a “jinx” and a “bringer of plague,” until the venerable monk Zhang Debiao took him on as a disciple. To Zhang Debiao’s amazement, A Wang had never spent a day in school, yet somehow knew the Shennong Bencao Jing, Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases, Compendium of Materia Medica, and more. Because of A Wang, Zhang Debiao returned to secular life, and the world learned of A Wang, a great physician of his generation. To find out how A Wang grew up, read the story.