Zhēnjiǔ jùyīng 針灸聚英
Gathered Splendours of Acupuncture and Moxibustion by 高武 Gāo Wǔ (撰)
About the work
A four-juan critical anthology of acupuncture doctrine, compiled by the Sìmíng 四明 (Níngbō, Zhèjiāng) physician 高武 Gāo Wǔ (hào Méigūzǐ 梅孤子) and prefaced in Jiājìng jǐchǒu 嘉靖己丑 (1529). Gāo’s preface frames the project as a comparative-critical exercise: he had previously compiled the Zhēnjiǔ jiéyào 針灸節要 (KR3ee028) to recover the original doctrine of the Sùwèn, Língshū, and Nànjīng; the present Jùyīng (literally “gathered splendours”) brings together the most influential post-classical didactic compositions — the Biāoyōu fù 標幽賦, the Yùlóng gē 玉龍歌, the Zhǒuhòu 肘後 verses, the Liúzhù 流注 timetable, the Shényìng jīng 神應經 — and critically compares them with the canonical source-texts, “verifying their excesses and corrections by reference to the Sù Nàn meaning” (折衷以素、難之旨). The result is a four-juan reference: juan 1 the channel-collateral system and the acupoint catalog; juan 2 the indications; juan 3 the didactic-verse anthology with critical commentary; juan 4 the chronoacupuncture, contraindications, and clinical case-material.
Abstract
The Zhēnjiǔ jùyīng is the most philologically rigorous of the Míng acupuncture compendia and is the principal source from which 楊繼洲 Yáng Jìzhōu’s much-larger Zhēnjiǔ dàchéng (KR3ee027, 1601) drew its critical-comparison apparatus. Gāo Wǔ’s polemic in the preface is directed at the late-Míng acupuncturists who had drifted from the Nèijīng-Nànjīng root-doctrine: “those who do not trace back to the source are blind to the excellence of the methods the ancients established” (不溯其原，則昧夫古人立法之善); “those who do not follow the stream are ignorant of the malpractices of later generations” (不窮其流，則不知後世變法之弊). The work was widely reprinted in the Míng and is registered in the Sìkù quánshū zǒngmù tíyào under Zǐbù · Yījiā lèi cúnmù. It survives in the original Jiājìng edition, a Wànlì reprint, and several Qīng recensions.
Translations and research
- 黄龍祥 Huáng Lóngxiáng (ed.), Zhōngguó zhēnjiǔ shǐ tújiàn (2003) — Gāo Wǔ as the key Míng acupuncture philologist.
- Liú Jì 劉冀, “Gāo Wǔ Zhēnjiǔ jùyīng yánjiū” (1990s).
- Catherine Despeux, “Gao Wu”, in Encyclopedia of Taoism, Routledge, 2008 (brief).
Links
- Sìkù quánshū zǒngmù tíyào, Zǐbù · Yījiā lèi cúnmù.
- Wikidata Q11107611 (針灸聚英)
- 針灸聚英 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB