Jīnguì xuán jiě 金匱懸解
Suspended Exposition of the Golden-Casket by 黃元御 (Huáng Yuányù, 1705–1758, 清) — the catalog meta gives 黃玉璐 which is Huáng’s personal name (alongside the alternate forms 玉楸 / 玉路)
About the work
A twenty-two-juan mid-Qiánlóng commentary on the Jīnguì yào lüè by 黃元御 Huáng Yuányù (catalog form: 黃玉璐), the dominant Shāndōng physician of the mid-Qīng and founder of the 四聖 (“Four Sages”) school of clinical doctrine. The Jīnguì xuán jiě is the Jīnguì member of Huáng’s five canonical “xuán jiě” 懸解 (“suspended exposition”) commentaries — alongside the Sùwèn xuán jiě (KR3ea013), Língshū xuán jiě (KR3ea027), Nánjīng xuán jiě (KR3ea063), and Shānghán xuán jiě.
Abstract
Composition window 1748–1758 brackets Huáng’s most productive period (his five canonical xuán jiě commentaries were composed 1748–1753) and his death in 1758. The Kanripo source preserves the canonical opening: an extended doctrinal exposition of zàngfǔ jīngluò 臟腑經絡 (the viscera-and-channel system as the diagnostic framework underlying wàng wén wèn qiè 望聞問切 four-method diagnosis), then a clause-by-clause exegesis of the canonical chapter “Zàngfǔ jīngluò xiānhòu bìng mài zhèng” 臟腑經絡先後病脈證, treating it as a problem-and-answer dialogue with Huáng supplying detailed Wǔxíng 五行 (Five Phases) reasoning for the canonical answers.
Huáng’s distinctive doctrinal contribution — a strongly yáng / zhōngqì 中氣 / spleen-stomach centered reading of clinical doctrine, with the Yìjīng kǎnlí 坎離 polarity as the cosmological background — pervades the commentary. The work is one of the principal mid-Qīng Jīnguì commentaries and the foundational text of the Huáng-school Jīnguì tradition (continuous in Sìchuān through 鄭壽全 Zhèng Qīn’ān and his Fire-spirit lineage; see KR3ef060).
The catalog meta uses the personal name 黃玉璐 — the same individual as 黃元御.
Translations and research
- Sūn Hóngshēng 孫洪生 et al., Huáng Yuányù yīxué quán shū — modern collected works edition.
- No comprehensive English-language translation located.
Other points of interest
Huáng’s Jīnguì xuán jiě and his parallel Shānghán xuán jiě are the two principal Zhòngjǐng-canon commentaries of his “Four Sages” school. Read together with the Shuō yì clinical companion (KR3ef054 for the Shānghán Shuō yì), they constitute the doctrinal core of one of the most distinctive mid-Qīng Shānghán–Jīnguì readings.
Links
- See KR3ef079 (parent Jīnguì yào lüè).
- See KR3ef054 (Huáng’s parallel Shānghán shuō yì).
- See KR3ea013 (Huáng’s Sùwèn xuán jiě).
- 金匱懸解 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB