Xīn Kān Wù Tīng Zǐ Sú Jiě Mài Jué 新刊勿聽子俗解脈訣
Newly Printed Vernacular Exposition of the Pulse Songs by Master Wù-tīng by 熊宗立 (Xióng Zōnglì, zì Dàoxuān 道軒, hào Wùtīng zǐ 勿聽子, fl. mid-15th c., 明)
About the work
A four-juan vernacular commentary on the pseudo-Wáng-Shūhé Mài jué by the prolific early-Ming Jiāngxī publisher-physician Xióng Zōnglì, hào Wùtīng zǐ 勿聽子 (“the Master who Does Not Listen”). Xióng was the leading 15th-century Fùjiàn / Jiāngxī medical-publisher and the editor of dozens of medical and divinatory works. His Sú jiě 俗解 (“vernacular exposition”) was specifically designed for the low-end commercial market — annotating the pseudo-Wáng-Shūhé Mài jué in colloquial Chinese rather than in the classical idiom that the standard commentaries used. The jicheng.tw file KR3eb046_001.txt is an empty stub; this entry relies on external bibliographic witnesses.
Prefaces
No text in the jicheng.tw file. The work is well attested in early-Ming bibliographic records and is the foundational vernacular Mài jué commentary of the Ming period.
Abstract
Xióng Zōnglì 熊宗立 (1409–1482), hào Wùtīng zǐ 勿聽子, was one of the most prolific medical publishers of the early Ming. His publishing programme — based in Fùjiàn Jiànyáng 建陽, the leading commercial-printing centre of late-medieval China — included dozens of medical titles in both elite and popular registers. The Sú jiě Mài jué is the popular pulse counterpart of his more orthodox medical productions. The book’s continued circulation through the late Ming — Lǐ Shízhēn explicitly attacks it in KR3eb019 Mài jué kǎo zhèng — testifies to the persistence of the pseudo-Wáng-Shūhé tradition in popular pedagogy long after the elite physicians had repudiated it. Dated bracket 1437–1480 reflects Xióng’s productive period.
Translations and research
- No Western-language translation exists.
- Xióng Zōnglì’s publishing programme is the subject of Lúcille Chia, Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th–17th Centuries) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UAP, 2002), which treats him as the leading 15th-century medical-and-divinatory publisher of Jianyang.
Links
- Wikidata: not assigned.
- 新刊勿聽子俗解脈訣 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB