Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon: Collected Commentaries (2 Volumes) (2 Volumes)

Author: Long Bojian
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: have devoted great effort to studying and organizing the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, conducting numerous collations and interpretations, yet no one has compiled them all. This book accomplishes just such a compilation. First, it stabilizes the collated text of the Inner Canon based on predecessors' achievements, and second, it interprets the text according to their glossary findings. These details are elaborated in the preface. Beyond collation and glossary, this book places special emphasis on cross-referencing between passages within the Inner Canon and corroborating with contemporary texts. For cross-referencing within the Inner Canon, Ma Shi of the Ming Dynasty made significant contributions. For corroborating with contemporary texts, Danpo Genshun and his son in Japan did much. Now, this book adds only a few supplements to their existing work. This book particularly focuses on interpreting the text through the text itself—for example, Renying (human), Cifu (), and the Five Zang pulses—all are explained based on the preceding and succeeding passages of the Inner Canon. The selected collations adhere to this principle. Annotations based on the Difficult Classic or Wang Shuhe's Pulse Classic that conflict with the main intent of the text are excluded. At the end of each chapter, a modern-language translation is provided, which is merely a trial translation. Despite great efforts, there are still many unsatisfactory aspects. The Collected Interpretations of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon is one of China's early medical compendia, comprehensively summarizing medical achievements before the Qin and Han dynasties, providing theoretical guidance and basis for the development of traditional Chinese medicine.