Tú Zhù Wáng Shū Hé Mài Jué 圖註王叔和脈訣
Wáng Shūhé’s Pulse Songs, with Illustrations and Annotation by 張世賢 (Zhāng Shìxián, fl. early Ming, 明) — illustrated commentary on the pseudo-Wáng-Shūhé Mài jué
About the work
A four-juan early-to-mid Ming illustrated commentary on the pseudo-Wáng-Shūhé Mài jué by Zhāng Shìxián. The jicheng.tw file KR3eb048_001.txt is an empty stub. The book is well attested in Ming bibliographies as one of the principal illustrated Mài jué commentaries — using woodblock figures to render the pulse signatures and their differentials visually — and was widely reprinted in late-Ming editions. Together with the Yuán Mài jué tú jiě of Yáng Jiè 楊介, this is one of the key witnesses to the illustrated-pulse tradition that ran in parallel to the text-only mainstream.
Prefaces
No text in the jicheng.tw file. The conventional dating to the early-to-mid Ming reflects the catalog meta and the bibliographic record; Zhāng Shìxián is otherwise lightly documented.
Abstract
Zhāng Shìxián 張世賢 was an early-Ming physician — zì Tiānchéng 天成, hào Yīlǚshēng 醫癘生 in some accounts — whose contribution rests primarily on this tú zhù (illustrated-and-annotated) edition of the pseudo-Mài jué. The book continued in print through the late Ming and early Qing despite the orthodox-medical critique of the underlying pseudo-text; the illustrations were the principal selling point. The empty jicheng.tw file precludes detailed analysis from this corpus.
Translations and research
- No Western-language translation exists.
- The illustrated-pulse-text tradition is treated briefly in Catherine Despeux, “Visualization and Diagrammatic Thought in Sòng-Yuán Medicine,” in Innovation in Chinese Medicine (Cambridge: CUP, 2001).
Links
- Wikidata: not assigned.
- 圖註王叔和脈訣 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB