Research on Excavated Ancient Medical Books

Author: Ma Jixing
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: The history of Chinese medicine has spanned thousands of years. Throughout this time, it has continuously developed, created, recorded, and passed down a wealth of medical cultural resources, which are reflected in medical literature and artifacts. However, these valuable cultural resources have already endured the passage of long ages, and only a small number of them have been preserved and passed down to the present day. Fortunately, through the diligent efforts of modern archaeologists, some ancient medical treasures have been intermittently unearthed in underground cultural relic excavations. Among these unearthed ancient medical cultural resources, those dating back to the Qin and Han dynasties two thousand years ago, as well as even earlier eras, are particularly rare and precious. The author of this book is a renowned Chinese medicine literature and medical historian in China. This book is the result of many years of research by the author, extensively collecting and organizing medical literature and artifacts unearthed across the country from the pre-Qin and Han periods, some of which even come from Russia, the United Kingdom, and Japan. It introduces the excavation contexts of these materials, discusses their content, loss, literary value, and their significance in uncovering the treasures of traditional Chinese medicine.