Stories can be interpreted as old stories, old business, precedents, allusions, and other meanings. As a literary genre, stories focus on the description of the course of events, describing the cultural patterns of a certain range of society through the memory of past events, thus elucidating reasoning or values, and are useful for studying the spread and distribution of culture throughout history. Acupuncture stories, through the memory of past medical events related to acupuncture, describe the role played by acupuncture in human social activities at different historical stages. This book is a story about the peculiar medical activities of acupuncture and moxibustion by medical doctors as well as folk doctors in China through the ages. This book is mainly concerned with the following aspects. (1) Historical materials The stories about acupuncture and moxibustion have been recorded in Zuo Qiu Ming’s “Zuo Zhuan” in the Spring and Autumn period. In “Zuo Zhuan – Vol. 8 – Ten Years of Duke Cheng”, a paragraph of discussion about the disease in which the Qin physician, Jiu, diagnosed the disease for Duke Jing of Jin, said that the disease was “above the vitals and below the ointment, the attack was not possible, and the reach was not enough”. The word “attack” and “reach” refers to moxibustion. The earliest story about acupuncture and moxibustion treatment is found in Sima Qian’s “Historical Records”, and the record of Bian Magpie’s medical affairs in “Historical Records – Bianyi Canggong Liezhuan” is the earliest documented story of acupuncture and moxibustion so far. However, due to the long history, the medical activities described may be logically plausible, while the time, place, and people treated may be wrong. For example, if we refer to the chronicles of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the time period when the Qin and Yue people performed their medical activities, as well as related documents such as Sima Zhen’s Shiji – Index and Liu Xiang’s Sayings, we can sort it out. Most of the historical materials, especially the acupuncture and moxibustion events of famous Chinese doctors in the Twenty-four Histories, have some historical value, but the storyline in individual chapters, such as the story of Xu Qiufu’s acupuncture for the sick and dead spirits in the Southern History – Zhang Rong Zhuan, can only be regarded as legend. In addition, there are also some accounts of acupuncture activities, recorded in some local magazines of a certain period, such as Yu Fa Kai mutton soup plus gold needles for pregnant women to induce labor recorded in the “Shaoxing Prefecture”, Sun Zhuo San lifting the pot to uncover the lid of the experience of treating urinary disease out of the “Jiangxi General Records” and so on. (2) Cases The first acupuncture story from a case is from Chun Yu Yi’s medical records, which can be found in “Historical Records – Bianyi Canggong Liezhuan”. The medical records written by Chun Yu Yi created the first medical records in China. Because of the real time, place and people recorded in the medical records, the authenticity of the events is conclusive and reliable, especially the experience of my practice in the monographs left by the famous Chinese medicine practitioners in the past generations, which is even more precious. For example, Zhang Congzheng’s “Confucianism”, Dou Cai’s “Bianji Xinshu”, Luo Tianyi’s “Health Baojian”, and Yang Jizhou’s “Acupuncture and Moxibustion Dacheng”. Some of the contents are also taken from the collection of case records, such as Jiang’s “Cases of Famous Doctors” and Wei Zhi-L’s “Continuing Cases of Famous Doctors”. (3) Prefaces and postscripts Some materials are taken from the prefaces and postscripts of medical books, such as the preface to Cui Zhiti’s Moxibustion Formula for Bone Vapor Diseases, the postscript to Zhuang Chiao’s Moxibustion of the Anacardium and Acupuncture Points, and the preface to Wu Tang’s Book of Medical Diseases. The first two articles on moxibustion therapy are the authors’ own confessions of their motives for writing and the medical past they experienced. The latter is taken from Hu V’s preface to Wu Tang’s Book of Medicine and Diseases, in which he describes his experience of following the master. (4) Miscellany There are also parts of miscellany, which are taken from the miscellany of some literati, such as Shen Kuo’s “Mengxi pen-talk” and Su Shi’s “Dongpo miscellany”. (5) Ancient novels are mainly a collection of novels written before the Song and Yuan Dynasties, such as “The New Story of the World”, a collection of notes and anecdotes about Wei and Jin characters produced during the Liu and Song Dynasties in Southern China, “The Chronicle of a Different World”, a collection of legends and novels from the Tang Dynasty, and “Yi Jian Zhi”, a famous collection of weird and wonderful novels from the Song Dynasty. There is also a large book written by Song people, Taiping Guangji, which is a miscellany of novels and novels mainly written by novelists from the Han Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty, such as Shi Zang P Dao Jing. In the late Southern Song Dynasty, there were many unseen wild histories inside and outside the imperial court, such as “Qi Dong Nogui”. The content taken from such documents is strong in storytelling, and the authenticity of the events needs to be identified, but the reasoning is still worth playing with. (6) Legends In addition to the collection of ancient novels, there are also a small number of legends passed down in folklore, which are difficult to find the source of the stories in this book. The stories in this book are based on historical evidence, and although there are deductions, they are also an extension of the original material. (2) As far as possible to play the medical theory The original materials, some paragraphs of the medical theory is clearer, some vague, there are extremely simple words, did not talk about the medical theory, this book as far as possible, in the historical materials to seek the connotation of the medical theory, or from its related literature, to give additional. For example, Zhang Jie Gu in addition to the chapter of the stench, the original case only the treatment, but it is clear from his treatment method, his method of acupuncture points, is to follow the five elements of the five points of the relationship between the five elements and the choice made. (3) The content of the various schools of acupuncture and moxibustion is summarized as comprehensively as possible. Considering the various schools of acupuncture and moxibustion that have been formed by different medical practitioners over the ages, this book collects as many anecdotes of acupuncture and moxibustion from famous Chinese medical practitioners with unique styles as possible, especially those historical figures of acupuncture and moxibustion that are covered in the textbooks of Chinese medical schools, “The Doctrine of Acupuncture and Moxibustion” and “Introduction to the Schools of Acupuncture and Moxibustion”. (4) Distinction and judgment of content authenticity The content of stories taken from scripture histories, medical cases, miscellaneous records and the like are more reliable in their authenticity, especially those materials with clear time, place and names of characters. However, there may be some legendary contents in the historical materials, such as the story of Qiu Fu healing the ghost in the “Southern History – Zhang Rong Zhuan”, which is a typical legend. Some of the content taken from ancient novels, such as “Yi Jian Zhi”, “Taiping Guang Ji”, “Qi Dong Ye Yi”, etc., is mostly of wild history, but the content described is still of some reference value for acupuncture practitioners. The book has a textual explanation at the end of the chapter where the content is not quite in line with objective reality. (5) Grasp of character character The character of the story is mainly based on the accounts of the characters concerned in the historical materials, such as “Jin Shi-Zhang Congzheng Zhuan”: “He was a man of loose and absurd, without authority, reading, composing poetry, and addicted to wine ……”; “Yuan Shi-Li Gao Zhuan”. “Different from the group of children at an early age, and when he grew up, he was faithful and respectful, cautious in his interactions, and had no jokes with people ……”, etc. Through the description of past events of acupuncture figures, this book aims to promote traditional Chinese medicine culture, advocate the sages’ great medical and sincere, high-minded and noble style, learn from their solidarity, brotherhood, and their hard-working and innovative spirit. I hope that this book will be useful and enlightening for acupuncture clinicians and aspiring acupuncture enthusiasts. We hope to receive help and correction from our colleagues in the medical field for any shortcomings.