The preeminent pharmacist in the Tang Dynasty Sun Simiao was highly gifted. He could read a 1,000-character essay daily at the age of seven, and was versed in all classics at the age of twenty. He was known as a child prodigy. As he was weak and sick in his youth, his family had to spent all the property to pay for doctors and medicines for him .Hence, he made up his mind to study medicine to cure sick people. He was so studious that he was versed in medicine even when he was young, and patients flocked to him from near and far. He studied diligently the ancient classics on medicine , such as “Plain Queries” , “Crux of Medicine” , “Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion”, “Canon of Medical Herbs”, “Treatment of Typhoid” , “Canon of Pulse” , etc . He did not “stop studying even when he got old.” He also studied foreign medicine at the time, such as the Indian medicine. Sun Simiao had a high proficiency in medicine. But in “the vast ocean of the classics and recipes”, it was difficult to retrieve a recipe for an acute disease, so he was resolved to compile a medical work to make the retrieval easy. After decades of hard work, he completed in 652 A. D. his masterpiece “essential Recipes in Emergency”. After he died he was honored as “Pharmaceutical King” and Mount Wutai where he stayed was renamed Mount Pharmaceutical King. On the mount, a memorial temple and his statue were built in honor of his great contributions and his lofty personality.