類編朱氏集驗醫方

Lèibiān Zhūshì Jíyàn Yīfāng 類編朱氏集驗醫方

Classified Tested Medical Recipes of Mr Zhū by 朱佐 (Zhū Zuǒ, zì Jūnfǔ 君輔, fl. mid-late 13th c., 南宋) — Southern-Sòng physician of Méishān 眉山 (Sìchuān) lineage

About the work

The Lèibiān Zhūshì jíyàn yīfāng in 15 juǎn is a late-Southern-Sòng formulary completed in xiánchún yuánnián 咸淳元年 = 1265 (the year of the preface). The work is organised by ailment (the lèibiān 類編 “classified-arrangement” of the title) and consolidates recipes that the author has personally tested or witnessed working. The preface — by a kinsman Zhū Jǐngxíng 朱景行 of Méishān 眉山 (Sìchuān) — frames the work in the standard Sòng-physician-Confucian terms (the liángxiàngliángyī “good chancellor / good physician” parallel) and acknowledges the work’s debt to Wáng Kuàng’s Quánshēng zhǐmí fāng (KR3ed019) genre.

Prefaces

A single preface:

• 序 by Zhū Jǐngxíng 朱景行 of Méishān 眉山, dated 咸淳元年歲在丙寅二月初吉 (= spring 1266, xiánchún 2 — note: the yuánnián bǐngyín identification is a chronological error in the original; the actual yuánnián of xiánchún is yǐchǒu 乙丑 1265, and bǐngyín would be xiánchún 2 = 1266; either way the work is dated to the xiánchún opening years). Zhū Jǐngxíng develops the standard Sòng liángxiàngliángyī topos, lists five canonical xiàng (chancellor) texts from antiquity (Yīxùn, Yuèmìng, Zhōuguān, Chūshī biǎo, Zīzhì tōngjiàn) as parallels to medical-formulary excellence, and recommends his kinsman Zhū Zuǒ’s work as a jīngyàn tested formulary to add to that company.

Abstract

Zhū Zuǒ 朱佐 (zì Jūnfǔ 君輔; fl. mid-late 13th c.; not in CBDB) was a Southern-Sòng physician of the Zhū family of Méishān 眉山, the same town that produced Sū Shì 蘇軾 and Sū Zhé 蘇轍 (and that produced KR3ed010’s Shǐ Kān). The Zhū family was a documented Méishān literati-medical lineage of the late Southern Sòng; the kinsman-prefacer Zhū Jǐngxíng holds the post of a senior Méishān prefect / scholar-official. The work’s xiánchún date places its compilation in the final decade of the Southern Sòng, before the 1276 fall.

The work’s significance:

1. Late-Southern-Sòng formulary synthesis. The Lèibiān Zhūshì jíyàn yīfāng belongs to the same generation as Yáng Shìyíng’s Rénzhāi zhízhǐ fānglùn (KR3ed021) and Yán Yònghé’s Jìshēng fāng (KR3ed022); together these works represent the late-Sòng physician-scholar’s consolidation of two centuries of formulary literature before the dynasty’s collapse.
2. Méishān regional pharmacology. The recipes preserve significant material from the Sìchuān regional tradition — particularly recipes using Sìchuān-specific materia medica (川烏 Sìchuān aconite, 川芎 Sìchuān ligusticum, 川斷 Sìchuān dipsacus, 川大黃 Sìchuān rhubarb).
3. Preservation in Yuán-Ming. The work was widely cited in Yuán formularies but its independent textual transmission was thin; the Sìkù quánshū reconstruction from the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn preserves most of the original. The hxwd recension follows this reconstruction.

Translations and research

• Hé Shíxī 何時希 (coll.). 1991. Lèibiān Zhū-shì jíyàn yīfāng 類編朱氏集驗醫方 (punctuated edition).
• Goldschmidt, Asaf. 2009. The Evolution of Chinese Medicine: Song Dynasty, 960–1200. Routledge.
• Wilkinson, Chinese History: A New Manual §41.3.2.

Other points of interest

Zhū Jǐngxíng’s preface’s listing of five canonical chancellor-texts as parallels to medical-formulary excellence is one of the most explicit Sòng-era statements of the liángxiàngliángyī topos: it asserts that medical recipes occupy the same cultural-canonical position vis-à-vis the yī as the Yīxùn / Yuèmìng / Zhōuguān / Zhūgě Liàng’s Chūshī biǎo / Sīmǎ Guāng’s Zīzhì tōngjiàn occupy vis-à-vis the xiàng.

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