Doctors have always been regarded as a highly respected profession in the history of our country, and their selfless dedication to saving people in danger has been hailed as angels. I still remember when the new crown epidemic first broke out, brave doctors resolutely rushed to the front line regardless of their personal safety, just to save more lives.
Their heroic deeds were put on the big screen, deeply touching countless people, and their spirit of selfless dedication and fearless life and death is shocking. Therefore, the profession of doctors is respected because of its historical origins, and there is a story of Shennong tasting herbs since ancient times.
However, in ancient Korea, this noble profession was despised and toyed with. Some female doctors are not only not treated with due respect, but are treated as playthings by princes and nobles, and their professional dignity is seriously violated.
They are doctors, but they are considered inferior because they are women. In the palace, they were kept as "playthings" and discarded when they got tired of playing. Despite their doctorate titles, they are deplorably denied the respect and treatment they deserve.
Historically, Korea was a vassal state of China and was deeply influenced by China. During the Ming Dynasty, China and North Korea had the closest relationship, and Zhu Yuanzhang even gave North Korea a name, giving it a unique identity.
However, despite this, the plight of these female doctors has not been changed and they are still treated as playthings, which is undoubtedly a serious violation of their dignity.
In ancient China, men were seen as the hope of family continuity, a concept deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture. However, there were clearly problems with such a tradition, and even in that era no one was able to fully accept and refute it.
Even North Korea, which sees China as a paradise, fails to realize the inadequacy of this notion. North Korean emissaries brought this idea back to their own country and pushed it to extremes, treating women with even more contempt than China.
In North Korea, women are seen as appendages without an independent personality and status, and even in public they are required to cover their faces to protect their chastity. If a man happens to see a woman's true face, he is obliged to marry her, otherwise she will be labeled as a "chaste martyr" and it will be difficult to find a suitable marriage partner.
This repressive system severely restricts women's freedom to go out, let alone receive health care.
In ancient Korea, women could not perform the diagnosis and treatment because of traditional Chinese medicine"Look"This step leads to the fact that you can only rely on your own resistance when you get sick, and you may even face death.
Until Taizong succeeded to the throne, he ordered women to learn medical skills, which solved their problem of seeing a doctor. Although this did not substantially improve the status of women, at the time, Taizong was considered a kind and benevolent monarch.
Some women can learn medicine to support their families and get jobs, which is undoubtedly a kind of progress.
This directive led to the rise of medical women, who provided medical services to women, known as medical women, and who also had relatively high social status.
The system of medical women gradually took shape, and the medical women not only served the common people, but some medical women with excellent medical skills were also invited into the palace to provide medical services for the women in the palace.
Many families deliberately arrange for their daughters to study medicine in order for them to flourish, because this is one of the ways for women to be promoted to official positions.
Ancient Korean women wanted to become **, in addition to becoming a medicine woman, they could also make clothes or cook. The TV series "Dae Jang Geum" is a prime example, telling the legendary story of a culinary woman.
Because these traditional professions are often "monopolized", and only those who become Shang Gong are eligible to choose the next Shang Gong, so these women usually choose their relatives.
In contrast, there is no such restriction on the profession of a medical woman, so most people want their daughters to become medical women.
Yan Shanjun, a tyrant on a par with the Shang king, was insatiable and lustful, and even transformed the holy sites of Korean Buddhism into places for pleasure. Although his character was well known, no one could prevent him from ascending the throne as emperor because he was the eldest son.
Once he became emperor, he still chose beautiful medicine women into the palace and forced them to dance for people to see.
They are forced to put aside their dignity and practice dancing in the name of medical women, but in fact they are maikos. What's more, Yan Shanjun also asked them to stay overnight after dancing, which is more like a kind of ** for them.
Over time, the medical girl transformed into a medical prostitute, not only being played by Yan Shanjun, but also by the princes and ministers. Some ministers even had a group of medical prostitutes in their homes. The medical woman who had a promising future was forced to degenerate, became a man's plaything, suffered ** and trampling, and engaged in unbearable work.
The rise of Yan Shanjun once brought hope to the medical woman, but after that, although North Korea has improved, the situation of the medical woman has not changed. Ostensibly, they were treating women, but in fact they were acting as prostitutes, which was common at the time.
However, the fate of the medicine girl was not changed by the awakening of the Koreans, but by the Japanese invasion.
Historically, there was a system of medical prostitutes in North Korea, but with the progress of society, North Korea gradually changed this system. Although Japan's past aggression was wrong, some of these ideas are worth emulating.
North Korea, absorbing the influence of other countries, gradually improved its own institutions and traditions, and the status of women gradually improved. Female doctors used to be treated as medical prostitutes, but now they have returned to the ranks of doctors.