Yáng Jìngzhāi zhēnjiǔ quánshū 楊敬齋針灸全書
Yáng Jìngzhāi’s Complete Book of Acupuncture and Moxibustion attributed to 陳言 Chén Yán (撰)
About the work
A two-juan late-Míng acupuncture handbook bearing the studio-name Yáng Jìngzhāi 楊敬齋 of an otherwise obscure compiler, and listed in the catalog under the editorial name 陳言 Chén Yán (in the Wànlì period — not the famous Southern-Sòng physician of the same name who authored the Sānyīn jíyī bìngzhèng fāng lùn, KR3e0041). The work is a Wànlì period anthology of acupuncture didactic verses, organized in two juan: juan 1 contains the Zhōushēn jīngxué fù 周身經穴賦, the standard acupoint head-to-foot tour-verses, and the Bǎizhèng gē 百症歌; juan 2 contains the Yùlóng gē 玉龍歌 (after 王國瑞 Wáng Guóruì, KR3ee008), the Lánjiāng fù 攔江賦, the Tiānxīng shí’èr xué 天星十二穴 of 馬鈺 Mǎ Dānyáng, the Língguī bāfǎ and Fēiténg bāfǎ chronoacupuncture tables, and a long Xí Hóng fù 席弘賦. The compilation lies textually between 徐鳳 Xú Fèng’s Zhēnjiǔ dàquán (KR3ee002) and 楊繼洲 Yáng Jìzhōu’s Zhēnjiǔ dàchéng (KR3ee027).
Abstract
The Yáng Jìngzhāi zhēnjiǔ quánshū survives in a 1591 (Wànlì 19, xīnmǎo) edition; the compiler’s preface is signed “Yáng Jìngzhāi” — a studio-name, not a personal name. The catalog meta records the author as 陳言, dynasty 明, which is the conventional bibliographic attribution drawn from a later editorial note; however, no biographic record of a Míng acupuncturist named 陳言 exists in CBDB or in the standard reference works (the famous 陳言 is the Sòng physician of KR3e0041 — clearly not the present author given the Wànlì-period dating, the inclusion of the Língguī bāfǎ (post-1439), and the editorial style). The attribution is therefore best treated as conjectural; the work is essentially an anonymous late-Míng acupuncture-verse anthology. The text is not registered in the Sìkù. It belongs to the same Jiāng-Zhè-region late-Míng acupuncture-didactics tradition as the Língmén compilation (KR3ee003) and the Zhēnjiǔ jùyīng 針灸聚英 of 高武 Gāo Wǔ (KR3ee014).
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located. The text is occasionally cited in PRC acupuncture bibliographies (Zhōngguó zhōngyī gǔjí zǒngmù, 2007) but has not been the object of a monographic study; its didactic-verse content is essentially derivative of the Zhēnjiǔ dàquán.
Other points of interest
The attribution to “陳言” is one of several late-Míng catalogue confusions between the famous Sòng physician 陳言 (KR3e0041) and an obscure homonymous Míng compiler. Modern Chinese-medicine historiography does not treat the present work as belonging to the Sòng 陳言.
Links
- Zhōngguó zhōngyī gǔjí zǒngmù 中國中醫古籍總目, zhēnjiǔ section.
- 楊敬齋針灸全書 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB