Dong Feng, together with Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing, was one of the "Three physicians of Jian'an", although his skill was ranked the lowest of the three.
The physician Ge Hong wrote a biography of Dong Feng in the Shenxian zhuan.
Dong Feng allowed people to pick his apricots in exchange for an equal amount of grain.
Ge Hong recounts a story of one man who tried to take a greater quantity of apricots than the grain he had offered to Dong Feng.
By chance, the remaining apricots in the man's container equaled the grain that he had paid to Dong Feng, so the tigers stopped chasing him.