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This building full of Chinese architectural style is the main outpatient building of our hospital, which adopts typical flush-gable-roof architectural style, with an eave height of 14 meters and a building area of nearly 50,000 square meters. The facades are composed of red walls and green tiles, and the eaves are decorated with mythical creatures led by "Immortals Riding Phoenix", in a pattern of five ridges and six mythical creatures. The overall design complies with the basic principles of Chinese architecture.A plaque with the words "Outpatient Building" in golden color is hanged under the eaves of the top floor of the outpatient building. Plaque has a unique position in Chinese culture,…

Qi Lei (1926-2010), a military poet and former Party Secretary of Xiyuan Hospital, witnessed the development of Xiyuan Hospital in his life. The poem titled "For Xiyuan Hospital", carved in the stone, was written by the respectable Secretary Qi Lei in 2008. The poem shows the love of the former generation of hospital leaders for the hospital and sustains their ardent wishes for the development of the hospital.The meaning of the poem is listed as follows:Traditional Chinese medicine treasures are handed down from ancestors,We are liable for carrying forward the heritage in such a treasured place surrounded by royal palaces in three sides;Chinese herbal medicines are benefiting mankind,Traditi…

Oian Yi (1032-1113), also named Zhongyang, was a well-known doctor in Song Dynasty, and was also a famous pediatrician in Chinese medical history, who was called "the Saint of Pediatrics" and "the Originator of Pediatrics". The Keys to Therapeutic of Children's Diseases written by him was the first existing pediatric monograph in China, which systematically summarized the treatment of children's diseases based on comprehensive diagno-sis for the first time. The pediatrics thereafter developed into an independent discipline in traditional Chinese medicine. The famous prescription "Liuwei Dihuang Pill" invited by Qian Yi has been widely used in clinic for its outstanding curative effec…

The guest-greeting stone stands in front of the door of the new outpatient building, with the motto of Xiyuan Hospital, "Being great knowledgeable doctors, and serving people with good moral" engraved in the center.The term "Great Doctor" comes from the book "Great Doctor with Sincerity" written by Sun Simiao in Tang Dynasty, which refers to a doctor with both virtue and skill.The word "knowledgeable" is interpreted as "with broad and extensive knowledge" in the book "Explanation of Chinese Characters".The term "good moral" comes from the Book of Changes, "On the vast earth, a man of noble character shall practice his social commitment with good moral". "Good moral" is the foundation of "tec…

In June 1954, an instruction was made by President Mao "to set up traditional Chinese medicine research institutions immediately, and to collect good traditional Chinese medicines for further research". Since January 1955, the Fifth Hospital directly under the management of the central government (formerly North China Hospital) was accepted by the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences as an affiliated hospital (now Xiyuan Hospital).

For the establishment of the Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences of the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China on December 19, 1955, Premier Zhou Enlai personally wrote an inscription with the following words: To inherit and carry forward the achievements in the traditional Chinese medicine for better serving the socialist construction."

At the early stage of the establishment of Xiyuan Hospital, dozens of famous Chinese medicine experts gathered in the hospital, forming its professional characteristics in internal medicine, gynecology, pediatrics and other departments, enjoying a good reputation at home and abroad, which laid a solid foundation for the construction and development of Xiyuan Hospital.Now, their medical ethics and academic experience have been inherited and carried forward by several generations of Xiyuan people, and have become the valuable culture and wealth of the hospital. The List of Famous Chinese Medicine Experts in the Early Stage of the Hospital exhibits the life and contributions of fifteen famous e…

Hua Tuo (about 145-208), also named Yuanhua, a famous medical scientist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, was called "the Originator of Surgery" by later generations. "Curing the poison by scraping bone", which is a famous historical story, comes from the Records of the Three Kingdoms. According to legend, in the 2nd century AD, Guan Yu was injured by an arrow in his arm, resulting in the invasion of poison into his bone. Hua Tuo passed through the place by coincide, and saved the life of "Saint of War" by surgical bone scraping.

Bian Que (407-310 BC), surnamed Qin, named Yueren, was a famous doctor in Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Time.He established the "Four-Diagnoses" system in traditional Chinese medicine, including looking, listening, questioning and pulse feeling diagnosis methods, especially the pulse-feeling diagnosis is the most profound. After the development in Qin and Han Dynasties, the "pulse diagnosis" theory established by BianQue had gradually become an important diagnostic basis in traditional Chinese medicine.

Zhang Zhongjing (150-219 AD), also named Zhang Ji, born in Nanyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was a famous medical scientist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.During the reign of Emperor Han Ling, he was elected as an official, and was finally promoted to be the satrap of Changsha. Throughout his life, Zhang Zhongjing diligently learnt the lessons from the predecessors, and collected the achievements of predecessors for four generations to make the famous book Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases (with 16 volumes in total), which was later divided into two books, i.e. Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Essentials from Golden Cham-ber.The Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous …

The author of Xiyuan Hospital Ode is Professor Zhang Qicheng from School of Management, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. The Ode has eight paragraphs with a total of 893 words, which fully demonstrates the history, human geography, cultural heritage and brilliant achievements of Xiyuan Hospital. The words therein are simple and elegant, and the whole article is magnifi-cent, vividly showing the spirits of Xiyuan Hospital. The Bronze Slips in Xiyuan Hospital were built by China Architectural Culture Center. The works are 11.5 meters long and 2.5 meters wide, with 20 cm antique ornamentation on the side. The characters engraved adopt classic Wei rubbing font in the original complex form…