Introduction to the statue of Li Shizhen collecting medicine: In order to compile the "Compendium of Materia Medica", Li Shizhen consulted more than 800 kinds of medical and academic books from past dynasties, which can be said to be "reading thousands of books"; she also put on straw sandals, carried a medicine basket, and Accompanied by his apprentice Pang Xian and his son Jianyuan, he traveled far into the mountains and wilderness, visited famous doctors and Confucian people, searched for folk prescriptions, observed and collected drug specimens, and traveled to Henan, Hebei, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei and other regions. "Travel thousands of miles". It was through this kind of field investigation that Li Shizhen clarified many difficult problems with drugs and corrected many mistakes of his predecessors.