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East Asia · China · Good health
The gourd
A bottle gourd hung at a medicine seller’s stall — the old sign of a doctor in China.The herbalist’s gourdBook of the Later HanThe Book of the Later Han tells of an old medicine seller who hung a gourd over his stall. From the story comes the phrase “hanging the gourd to help the world”, said of doctors.Source: People’s Daily, on the Hou Hanshu story (9 October 2020) ↗
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