This brief review is a bit superficial, but this news is too outrageous, so I am posting it for everyone to see.
Recently, a promotional video claiming that “Shandong Qingdao female doctor Shi Liangyuan practices pulse diagnosis without doing housework, sleeps while taking pulses, and even practices while using the toilet” has been circulating online. The media is heavily emphasizing this traditional Chinese medicine doctor’s “dedication” and “professional spirit,” even uncritically publishing her absurd claim that “fingers need to stay warm and moist, and not do work, in order to be sensitive enough to detect emotional changes.” Dr. Shi Liangyuan publicly claims in the media that by touching the pulse with her fingers, she can determine whether a person is “sad,” and that with “trained” touch, she can sense emotional changes. This is complete nonsense and deception. In traditional Chinese medicine, pulse diagnosis is a method within “望闻问切” (looking, listening, questioning, and palpation), a crystallization of thousands of years of experience in fighting disease. Essentially, it is about judging a person’s physical condition through pulse changes. The so-called “sad pulse” is merely an expression of emotional fluctuations manifested physically, not some “divine skill” of perceiving emotions. This is purely pseudoscience wrapped in traditional medicine to attract attention. Turning pulse diagnosis into a skill that can detect “sad pulse” is like saying “I can tell if you’re secretly crying just by your breathing”—not a doctor’s language, but a trick of con artists.
Dr. Shi Liangyuan said: “To keep my fingers sensitive, I don’t do housework.” This seemingly harmless and even “professional” statement is actually an excuse created by bourgeois intellectuals to avoid labor. She claims doing housework “affects the fingers,” echoing the ancient literati’s “ten fingers do not touch spring water,” and is a continuation of the reactionary tradition of intellectual contempt for labor. The implication is simply that—physical labor is lowly and would tarnish her “healing and saving people” hands. She considers herself educated and knowledgeable, feeling superior and justified in avoiding labor, cooking, and housework. Under the guise of “professionalism,” she outwardly shows “dedication,” but in reality, she looks down on labor, treating “mental work” as a privilege separate from labor.
In socialist society, true intellectuals should go deep into the masses, engage in labor, and oppose detachment from reality. Chairman Mao pointed out long ago: “If intellectuals do not combine with workers and peasants, and do not integrate with the three great revolutionary movements, it is impossible to truly transform the world.” During Mao’s era, barefoot doctors worked during the day and practiced medicine at night, their hands covered with calluses and dirt. It was precisely such doctors who understood what disease was and what the pain of the people was, and could truly serve the working people. Who says hands holding a hoe cannot hold a needle?
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I used to have this mistaken idea that people who play the piano or violin, for example, might not be suitable for re-education through labor in socialism, because it could affect the agility of their hands and fingers. In fact, this was just my bourgeois thinking, believing that it was reasonable for these professional technicians to be detached from labor. Later, after working in a factory, I realized that the hands of laboring people, due to long-term exercise through labor, become even more flexible, and correspondingly, their tactile perception is stronger.