炼丹术的简史及其影响

History of Alchemy and its Impacts

炼丹术在中国长期发展,曾经鼎盛一时,却最终走向衰亡。它作为古人的一种试验、探索、技术操作,循着神秘而荒诞的思路,却成了行骗的代名词。炼丹术在中国漫长的发展历程中,伴随朝代的更替与兴衰,在不同层面给社会留下了积极与消极的影响。它促进了火药、冶炼技术、外科用药等技术的发展,它也宣扬了唯心的思想,毒害了人民的健康。

Alchemy has its long history in China, which has its splendid time but it came to the end finally.As an operation for trial,exploration and technology used by the ancients, with the principle of mystery and fantasticism, alchemy surprisingly at last became the substitution of deceiving. With the subrogation, rise and fall of dynasties, alchemy has given some positive and negative impacts on our society in its long period time of development in China. On one hand, it helps to promot the development of the gu...