Zōu shì hányì lùn 鄒氏寒疫論
Mr. Zōu’s Treatise on Cold-Pestilence by 鄒漢璜 (Zōu Hànhuáng, 清)
About the work
A late-Qīng monograph on cold-pestilence (hányì 寒疫) — the category of epidemic febrile disease driven by cold rather than warm aetiology. The work is doctrinally an explicit balancing-counterweight to the dominant 吳有性 Wú Yǒuxìng / wēnyì tradition: where Wú had located the source of wēnyì in pestilential warm-pathogen invasion, Zōu argues that not all epidemic disease has warm aetiology — there is a parallel cold-pestilence variant that requires a different prescription apparatus, more closely aligned with 張機 Zhāng Jī’s Shānghán tradition.
Abstract
The hányì category is canonically rooted in Shānghán lùn doctrine; the cold-injury epidemic disorders had been the dominant interpretive framework before the mid-Qīng wēnbìng synthesis displaced them. Zōu’s monograph recovers and re-elaborates this older category, framing it as a real and distinct clinical entity that the wēnbìng school had wrongly absorbed into the heat-aetiology framework.
Doctrinally the work fits within the late-Qīng zūnjīngpài 尊經派 (revere-the-classics school) reaction against the wēnbìng synthesis — alongside 周岩 Zhōu Yán’s Liùqì gǎnzhèng yàoyì (KR3eg018) and (somewhat differently) 王德宣 Wáng Déxuān’s later Wēnbìng zhèngzōng (KR3eg012). It is one of a small group of late-Qīng monographs that recovered the Shānghán-aligned epidemic-disease framework.
The work’s date and Zōu Hànhuáng’s lifedates are not preserved with precision; the broad late-Qīng (1820–1911) bracket reflects the doctrinal milieu in which the zūnjīngpài reaction was active.
Translations and research
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Other points of interest
The hányì / wēnyì analytical contrast — where Wú Yǒuxìng’s Wēnyì lùn (KR3eg004) and Zōu’s Hányì lùn sit a few catalog entries apart — is a deliberate editorial choice, presenting the two doctrinal options to the reader as complementary rather than competing frameworks.