Shānghán guànzhū jí 傷寒貫珠集
String-of-Pearls Collection on Cold Damage by 尤怡 (Yóu Yí, zì Zàijīng 在涇, hào Zhuózhái 拙齋, fl. early-Qiánlóng, 1650–1749, 清)
About the work
An eight-juan early-Qiánlóng commentary on the Shānghán lùn by the Sūzhōu physician 尤怡 Yóu Yí, completed 1729 and published posthumously by his disciples. The work is one of the four most-cited Qīng Shānghán commentaries (alongside the Shànglùn piān, the Láisū jí, and the Shānghán lùn lèifāng) and presents the Shānghán materials organized by a “zhìfǎ” 治法 (treatment-method) framework — eight categories of clinical strategy, with the canonical formulas distributed accordingly.
Abstract
The composition date 1729 is given by Yóu’s preface. Yóu Yí was a disciple of 馬俊良 Mǎ Jūnliáng and continued the early-Qīng Sūzhōu tradition (the lineage of 張璐 Zhāng Lù, 喻昌 Yú Chāng). The Guànzhū jí is distinguished by Yóu’s distinctively literary prose, by his sympathetic engagement with both the ancient-text-restoration line (方有執 Fāng Yǒuzhí / Yú Chāng) and the 成無己 Chéng Wúyǐ tradition, and by his clinical-practical orientation: each section ties theory directly to clinical decision. The “string of pearls” metaphor refers to the way each canonical prescription is “threaded” onto the underlying zhìfǎ framework.
The work circulated in the Qīng through multiple prints; the modern critical edition is in the Rénmín Wèishēng series (Beijing, 1956 and reprints).
Translations and research
- Mǎ Jìxīng 馬繼興, Shānghán lùn jiào zhù (1991).
- Hinrichs and Barnes (2013), 145–179.
- No substantial Western-language secondary literature located.
Links
- See KR3ef089 (Yóu Yí’s parallel Jīnguì yàoluè xīn diǎn).
- 傷寒貫珠集 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB