Mài Jué Kān Wù 脈訣刊誤
Correction of Errors in the Pulse Songs by 戴起宗 (Dài Qǐzōng, zì Tóngfù 同父, of Jīnlíng 金陵, fl. late Yuán) — revised and supplemented in the Ming by 汪機 (Wāng Jī, zì Xǐngzhī 省之, hào Shíshān jūshì 石山居士, 1463–1539)
About the work
A two-juan late-Yuán philological critique of the Sòng pseudo-Wáng-Shūhé Mài jué by Dài Qǐzōng of Jīnlíng (Nánjīng), to which the Ming physician Wāng Jī added a substantial bǔ dìng 補訂 (supplementary revision). Dài Qǐzōng was, with Huá Shòu KR3eb023, one of the earliest authors to subject the pseudo-Wáng-Shūhé Mài jué — by then deeply entrenched as a popular pedagogical text — to systematic textual critique. The book proceeds by quoting the pseudo-Mài jué line by line and supplying kān wù (correction-of-error) glosses showing where the Mài jué contradicts the genuine Mài jīng, the Sùwèn, or clinical observation. Wāng Jī’s supplementary material, added in the early 16th century, extends Dài’s critique into the later pulse-textual material that the original work did not reach and applies it to disputed material from the 14th-15th centuries.
Prefaces
KR3eb026_000.txt opens with an appendix on the timing of pulse-diagnosis (Zhěn mài zǎo yàn fǎ 診脈早晏法) citing the Sùwèn’s Píng rén qì xiàng lùn “always diagnose at dawn” precept. The jicheng.tw file does not preserve dated prefaces by Dài or by Wāng. The conventional dating of Dài’s original to the late Yuán follows the catalog meta dynasty 元 and is most plausibly placed in the 1340s–1350s; Wāng Jī’s revision is conventionally dated to the early 16th century (Wāng’s main productive period is c. 1500–1539).
Abstract
Dài Qǐzōng 戴起宗 (字同父) was a late-Yuán literatus-physician of Jīnlíng 金陵 (Nánjīng) whose work on the pulse joined Huá Shòu’s KR3eb023 Zhěn jiā shū yào as one of the two principal late-Yuán demolitions of the pseudo-Wáng-Shūhé Mài jué. Together they cleared the conceptual space within which Lǐ Shízhēn’s KR3eb019 Mài jué kǎo zhèng would later operate, and they are the principal authorities cited there. Wāng Jī 汪機 (1463–1539) was the leading Anhui (Xīn’ān 新安) physician of the Zhèngdé–Jiājìng period, a doctrinal heir of Zhū Zhènhēng 朱震亨; his supplement extends the critique into the Yuán-Ming pulse-textual heritage that Dài had not lived to address. The composite book — Dài + Wāng — is conventionally cited as the Mài jué kān wù and was widely reprinted in the late Ming.
The catalog meta records the work-cluster as Yuán Dài Qǐzōng zhuàn, Míng Wāng Jī bǔ dìng 元戴起宗撰，明汪機補訂; this division of labour is followed here.
Translations and research
- No Western-language translation exists.
- The work is discussed in Mǎ Jìxīng 馬繼興, Zhōng yī wén xiàn xué 中醫文獻學 (Shanghai: Shàng-hǎi kēxué jìshù, 1990), as the principal late-Yuán pulse-philological treatise.
- Lǐ Shízhēn cites Dài Qǐzōng repeatedly in KR3eb019 Mài jué kǎo zhèng as the most reliable predecessor.
Links
- Wikidata: not assigned.
- Companion late-Yuán critique: KR3eb023 Zhěn jiā shū yào by Huá Shòu.
- Ming continuation: KR3eb019 Mài jué kǎo zhèng by Lǐ Shízhēn.
- 脈訣刊誤 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB