Dashing Student-Chapter 537 , Outstanding Achievement

How could Chen Nan not see that Su Yue was deliberately making things difficult for him?

She wanted him to make a fool of himself in front of everyone.

Despite this, he was not at all flustered, his face adorned with a faint smile, looking as if he had everything under control with confidence in taking the victory.

He cleared his throat, his voice resonant and clear: "The Yin Yang Five Elements Theory is extraordinarily significant in Traditional Chinese Medicine."

"Yin and Yang are general terms for the opposite properties of certain related things or phenomena in nature."

"It runs through every aspect of Traditional Chinese Medicine theories, used to explain the organizational structure of the human body, its physiological functions, pathological changes, and to guide the diagnosis and treatment of diseases."

"Just like the Five Internal Organs pertain to Yin and the Six Hollow Organs belong to Yang. When Yin and Yang are balanced, the body is healthy; imbalance leads to disease."

He paused briefly, then continued: "The Five Elements Theory correlates the five fundamental substances of the natural world, namely wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, with the human body's Five Internal Organs, Five Body, and Five Senses. Through the generation and restriction relationships between the five elements, it interprets the physiological and pathological phenomena of the human body, as well as guiding the prevention and treatment of diseases."

"For instance, the liver corresponds to wood and the heart to fire. Since wood generates fire, a normally functioning liver aids the functioning of the heart; at the same time, as wood restricts earth, an excessively strong liver qi can restrain the spleen's earth, leading to a dysfunction of the spleen and stomach."

Chen Nan's answer was clear and logical, not only accurately describing the basic concepts of Yin Yang and Five Elements in Traditional Chinese Medicine but also providing an easy-to-understand analysis with real human body examples.

Upon hearing this, his classmates couldn't help but see Chen Nan in a new light, amazed that he knew so much.

Su Yue, originally wearing a mocking smile as if to trouble him, gradually had her smile freeze, replaced by full-faced surprise and admiration.

She did not expect Chen Nan could answer so comprehensively and thoroughly; his response far exceeded her expectations.

Because the content of Chen Nan's answer in the latter part was something she hadn't even started to explain.

After a brief shock, Su Yue regained her composure, and when she saw the confident smile on Chen Nan's face, the feeling of annoyance inside her grew stronger.

This made her desire for revenge intensify a notch.

"It seems that Classmate Chen Nan has quite an understanding of Traditional Chinese Medicine!" Su Yue's face revealed an intriguing smile.

Chen Nan humbly responded: "I only know a little."

Seeing this, Su Yue's desire for revenge grew stronger. The corners of her mouth slightly curled up in a seemingly gentle but cunning smile and she said, "In that case, Chen Nan, why don't you recite the Inner Canon of Huangdi."

"If you know a bit about Medical Skill, you should be able to recite some of the Inner Canon of Huangdi, right?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the classroom exploded into an uproar. Students gaped in astonishment, faces filled with disbelief.

The Inner Canon of Huangdi was a classic work of Traditional Chinese Medicine, profound and voluminous in content. Memorizing the entire text, let alone reading through it, would require a significant amount of time and effort.

In everyone's minds, nobody was capable of memorizing the entire text.

All eyes were fixed on Chen Nan, some full of pity, thinking he was definitely going to embarrass himself this time.

Some were schadenfreude, waiting to see his joke.

Others thought Chen Nan was too keen on showing off, for if he had been more low-key, would Su Yue have publically embarrassed him?

However, Chen Nan didn't hesitate at all. His expression remained calm as if the request Su Yue had made was a trivial matter.

He nodded lightly and cheerfully replied: "Certainly, Teacher Su."

Su Yue's eyes flashed with a hint of surprise, as she had originally thought Chen Nan would back down when faced with difficulty, but to her astonishment, he had agreed so decisively.

Her heart could not help but feel a little perturbed, but she still maintained a composed facade and said, "Then let's begin."

Chen Nan took a deep breath, then slowly began to speak.

His voice was clear and steady, each word pronounced as if endowed with a magical power.

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"Heaven is deficient in the northwest, thus the northwest is Yin, and the right ear and eye of man are not as clear as the left. Earth is lacking in the southeast, thus the southeast is Yang, and the left hand and foot of man are not as strong as the right. The Emperor asked, 'Why is this so?' Qi Bo replied, 'The east is Yang, and where Yang is, its essence gathers above. When it gathers above, the upper parts are clear but the lower parts are weak, thus the ears and eyes are keen, but the hands and feet are clumsy. The west is Yin, and where Yin is, its essence gathers below. When it gathers below, the lower parts are abundant but the upper parts are weak, therefore the ears and eyes are not sharp, but the hands and feet are nimble. Thus, both are susceptible to pathogenic factors; if it affects the upper body, the right side is more severely affected, and if it affects the lower body, the left side is more so. This is an imperfection of the heaven and earth's Yin and Yang, hence pathogenic factors take hold.'"

As Chen Nan recited, the classroom gradually fell silent.

But there was a student frowning, his face full of skepticism, "No, that's not right. The Inner Canon of Huangdi you're reciting doesn't match what I've read."

The others also snapped back to reality, glancing at each other, all seeing doubt and curiosity in each other's eyes.

Although they were freshmen, they had chosen to enroll in the Traditional Chinese Medicine program because of their love for it.

Before this, they had also read some medical texts.

For example, the Inner Canon of Huangdi is akin to a primer for a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner.

So when Chen Nan recited the Inner Canon of Huangdi, they were baffled.

It was entirely different from what they had read!

At that moment.

A male student pulled out his phone and immediately found the full text of the Inner Canon of Huangdi online and his pupils shook violently, his voice turned into a shriek as if seeing a ghost, "He... he... he's reciting it backward!"

That scream, like a stone thrown into a calm lake, instantly stirred up waves of shock in the classroom.

The students' gazes turned to the boy with the phone, their eyes filled with astonishment and bewilderment.

Then, as if driven by an invisible force, everyone pulled out their phones, eager to look up the original text of the Inner Canon of Huangdi.

When they verified with their own eyes that Chen Nan was indeed reciting it fluently backward, the entire classroom seemed to freeze, falling utterly silent.

Everyone's mouths hung open, their eyes wide and round, and their expressions morphed from initial doubt and surprise to deep shock and admiration.

They could never have imagined that this seemingly ordinary classmate possessed such astonishing memory and profound knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Su Yue stood dumbfounded, her hands subconsciously covering her mouth, her eyes filled with disbelief.

She trembled slightly, her normally well-groomed hair now messily falling beside her face.

Her mind went blank, with only one thought echoing incessantly: "How is this possible? How is this possible..."

As a Traditional Chinese Medicine department teacher, she naturally knew the core content of the Inner Canon of Huangdi like the back of her hand, yet even with her ability, she could not recite the entire text of the Inner Canon of Huangdi!

What shocked her was that Chen Nan could not only recite the entire text of the Inner Canon of Huangdi but could even do so backward with fluency...

"Fluently backward" was just an idiom!

And at this moment.

This idiom was personified in Chen Nan!