Lèijīng túyì 類經圖翼
Wings of Illustration to the Classified Canon by 張介賓 Zhāng Jièbīn (撰)
About the work
An eleven-juan illustrated companion-volume to 張介賓 Zhāng Jièbīn’s (Jǐngyuè 景岳) monumental Lèijīng 類經 (32 juan, the principal post-Yuán reorganization of the Sùwèn and Língshū into a single 12-category text), bound together with the four-juan Lèijīng fùyì 類經附翼; published in Tiānqǐ 4 (1624). The Túyì is the diagrammatic and acupuncture-doctrinal supplement: it gathers the channel-trajectory diagrams, the acupoint-location diagrams (after the Tóngrén tújīng KR3ee056), the Sùwèn-Língshū yīn-yáng-five-element correlations as visual tables, and the chronoacupuncture material. The opening preface develops Zhāng’s polemic that the Nèijīng is the foundation not only of medicine but of all natural philosophy, “above exhausting the celestial markings, below exhausting the earthly principles, in the middle thoroughly knowing human affairs” (上極天文，下窮地紀，中悉人事), and that the failure of contemporary physicians to study it is a moral disgrace.
Tiyao
The Sìkù quánshū zǒngmù tíyào (Zǐbù · Yījiā lèi) carries a tiyao for the combined Lèijīng / Túyì / Fùyì compilation. The SKQS compilers praise the Túyì’s diagrams as “exhaustive and clarifying” (詳明洞晰), and note that the acupuncture portions transmit the Tóngrén tradition with significant Míng-period clinical updates.
Abstract
The Lèijīng túyì is the principal late-Míng illustrated acupuncture-reference work and is closely tied conceptually to Zhāng Jièbīn’s wider medical philosophy: his “warming-tonifying” school in opposition to the Dānxī yīn-deficiency orthodoxy. The acupuncture sections of the Túyì are the bridge between 楊繼洲 Yáng Jìzhōu’s Zhēnjiǔ dàchéng (KR3ee027, 1601) and the imperial Qīng Yīzōng jīnjiàn (KR3ee015, 1742); they are widely cited in late-Míng and Qīng acupuncture handbooks.
Translations and research
- Zhāng Jièbīn’s medical philosophy: see Chao Yuánlíng, Medicine and Society in Late Imperial China, Peter Lang, 2009.
- Catherine Despeux, “Zhāng Jǐngyuè”, in Encyclopedia of Taoism, Routledge, 2008.
- 黄龍祥 Huáng Lóngxiáng, Zhōngguó zhēnjiǔ shǐ tújiàn (2003), Zhāng Jièbīn chapter.
Links
- Sìkù quánshū zǒngmù tíyào, Zǐbù · Yījiā lèi.
- Wikipedia: 類經
- 類經圖翼 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB