Chinese Traditional Story: Doctor Hua Tuo’s Amazing Skills

Hua Tuo, also named Yuanhua, was born in 145 A.D. The Hua family was originally very famous and wealthy, but it had declined by the time Hua Tuo was a child. Therefore, the Hua family placed great expectations on him. The era in which Hua Tuo lived was the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, because of the mismanagement of the imperial court, a lot of fighting between states occurred; floods and droughts happened one after another; epidemic diseases prevailed; and the people fell into deep suffering. Hua Tuo saw the corruption in the officialdom and the suffering of the people, he decided to give up his official career and practice medicine to relieve the suffering of the people in the world.