Zhòngjǐng Shānghán bǔ wáng lùn 仲景傷寒補亡論
Treatise Supplementing the Lost Portions of Zhòngjǐng’s Cold Damage by 郭雍 (Guō Yōng, zì Zǐhé 子和, hào Báiyún xiānshēng 白雲先生, 1091–1187, 南宋)
About the work
A twenty-juan Southern-Sòng commentary on the Shānghán lùn by the Chángyáng 長楊 (modern Húběi) scholar-physician 郭雍 Guō Yōng, son of 郭忠孝 Guō Zhōngxiào (a student of 程頤 Chéng Yí) and one of the principal Southern-Sòng yì xué 易學 transmitters. The work’s title encodes its editorial program: “bǔ wáng” 補亡 — supplementing what is lost — refers to Guō’s effort to reconstruct what he took to be missing portions of the canonical Shānghán lùn, drawing on parallel material from other received Hàn–Wèi medical texts (notably the Jīnguì yù hán jīng and the Bìng yuán lùn).
Abstract
Composition date conventionally 1181, with completion by 1182. The work is the first major Sòng Shānghán commentary to grasp the canonical text as a textual artifact requiring philological supplementation rather than merely doctrinal exposition. Guō’s editorial approach — recompiling, redistributing, and supplementing canonical clauses — is controversial in the later tradition: it produces a richer clinical handbook but at the cost of departing from the received Sòng-edition text. The work circulates in twenty juan in the received text.
The postface preserved in the Kanripo source — “寶山門人範洵謹跋” (Postface by the Bǎoshān disciple Fàn Xún) — records the textual history of a late-Qīng / early-Republican re-collation: Fàn studied medicine with his teacher (Dàn’ān shī 澹安師), who possessed an old printing of Guō’s Bǔ wáng lùn missing one juan since Yuán–Míng times. The collation was undertaken to “bǔ wáng zhī wáng” — to supplement the loss of the work that already supplemented losses. This Qīng-period re-edition is the basis of the modern reprintings.
The work is one of the most distinctive Southern-Sòng Shānghán commentaries and a major source for the textual-critical reception of the Shānghán lùn in the Sòng–Jīn–Yuán period.
Translations and research
- Goldschmidt, Evolution of Chinese Medicine (2009), Sòng Shānghán chapters.
- Mǎ Jìxīng 馬繼興, Sòng-Yuán Shānghán xuéshù yánjiū (1988).
- No substantial English-language translation located.
Other points of interest
Guō Yōng — bibliographically rare among major Shānghán commentators — was both an yì xué philosopher in the Chéng-school lineage and a Shānghán clinician. His Chuán jiā Yì shuō 傳家易說 (KR1a0023) is the principal Yì jīng commentary in his name and circulates alongside the Bǔ wáng lùn as the twin works of his oeuvre.
Links
- See KR1a0023 (Guō’s parallel Yì jīng commentary).
- See KR3ef001 (parent Shānghán lùn).
- 仲景傷寒補亡論 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB