张仲景是东汉著名医学家，医术精堪，医德高尚，他博览群书，广采众长，所著《伤寒杂病论》开创了传统中医学辩证施治的先河，奠定了中医临床诊疗理论体系，成为医家必读之经典，对中医药学的发展影响巨大，流行海内外，所载方药至今被广泛应用，被后世医家尊奉为“医圣”。
          
    对张仲景的祭祀活动由来已久，至今延续。活动内容丰富，既有各地医药学家的朝圣祭祀、义诊施药，也有医林会馆的学术讲堂、座谈交流，还有当地百姓祭祀问药、祈福纳祥，亦有儒家文人的赋诗而歌。到现代，中医药学界仍在南阳召开国际或全国不同类型的张仲景学术思想研讨会，当地政府多年来都举办张仲景医药文化节等，吸引了国内外大批的中医药专家学者和官员、商人，有力的促进了南阳中医药产业的发展。
   
    南阳医圣祠是张仲景墓、祠所在地，是供奉、纪念张仲景的场所，每年的祭祀活动都在医圣祠举行。
       
    该项目有较大的人文价值、生命科学价值、民间艺术价值、国粹保护价值、民俗传承价值和现代应用价值，对弘扬民族优秀文化和传承民间文化，尤其是对传承和发扬张仲景医学思想，扩大其医学影响，促进传统中医学的发展具有重要意义。


   
    Zhang Zhongjing is a very famous medical scientist in Eastern Han Dynasty and is respected as Medical Sage, whose significant work Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Miscellaneous Diseases has become a scripture every doctor will read.      

    Nanyang Medical Sage Ancestral Hall is place for feting and remembering Zhang, where his tomb and ancestral hall lays. Fete activities are held there every year, which is handed down for many years and includes plentiful content. Nowadays, Chinese medicine academics hold national or international academic and ideological discussions in Nanyang City, attracting a multitude of experts, officials and merchants which promotes its development of Chinese medicine industry. 
  
    This fete activity has large humanity, scientific, folk artistic, protective, inherit and practical values. Furthermore, it has a significant meaning for propagating and inheriting Chinese excellent folk culture and Zhang's medical views, enlarging his medical influence as well as improving traditional Chinese medical science.