Gāo zhù Jīnguì yào lüè 高註金匱要略
Gāo’s Annotated Edition of the Jīnguì yào lüè by 高學山 (Gāo Xuéshān, zì Hànzhì 漢峙, fl. mid-eighteenth century, 清)
About the work
A six-juan early-mid Qīng commentary on the Jīnguì yào lüè by the Yúyáo 餘姚 (Zhèjiāng) physician 高學山 Gāo Xuéshān (字 Hànzhì 漢峙). The work is one of the principal eighteenth-century Jīnguì commentaries and is best known for its rigorous clause-by-clause exegetical method and for its substantial structural intervention in the canonical text.
Abstract
Composition window 1720–1770 is bracketed by Gāo’s productive period. The work’s most distinctive editorial choice is preserved in the Kanripo source: Gāo has moved the canonical opening passage on “shàng gōng zhì wèi bìng” 上工治未病 (a fundamental yī xué principle quoted in Jīnguì yào lüè I.1) to the second position in the first chapter, opening instead with the broader cosmological-correlative passage “fū rén bǐng wǔ cháng, yīn fēng qì ér shēng zhǎng” 夫人稟五常，因風氣而生長 (Humans are endowed with the Five Constants and grow by means of qì-of-the-Wind). Gāo defends the rearrangement in a parenthetical note: “舊本俱列本篇第二條。余玩其文義。確是開章語氣。且有內外因。及不內不外之病由。然後有上工之問。並啟色脈診法。” — i.e., on close reading, the wǔ cháng passage has the literary tone of a chapter-opening, names the three categories of disease-cause (internal, external, neither-internal-nor-external), and naturally leads into the shàng gōng discussion. The rearrangement is one of the most-discussed Qīng Jīnguì editorial interventions.
Gāo’s running commentary glosses the wǔ cháng as “wǔ xíng” 五行 (Five Phases) — citing the Nèi jīng “Wǔ cháng zhèng dà lùn” 五常政大論 as the source — and uses this cosmological framework as the doctrinal background for the entire commentary. The work is one of the principal mid-Qīng Jīnguì commentaries and was a major source for the Yī zōng jīn jiàn 醫宗金鑑 (KR3ef086) editors.
The catalog meta gives “author: 高學山” with dynasty 清; the work is firmly attributed.
Translations and research
- The work is cited extensively in modern Chinese-language Jīnguì scholarship.
- No comprehensive English-language translation located.
Other points of interest
The rearrangement of the canonical opening is a useful test case for early-modern East Asian editorial method: Gāo treats the canonical text not as a fixed inheritance but as a recoverable original whose received order may need to be adjusted on the basis of internal evidence — a kǎo zhèng 考證 method applied to a clinical canon.
Links
- See KR3ef079 (parent Jīnguì yào lüè).
- 高註金匱要略 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB