Xùzēng dàshēng yàozhǐ 續增大生要旨
Continued-and-Augmented Essential Points for Vigorous Life by 唐千頃 (Táng Qiānqǐng, fl. 18th c.) with later editorial continuation
About the work
A late-Qīng continuation of Táng Qiānqǐng’s 唐千頃 Dàshēng yàozhǐ 大生要旨 — one of the most-reprinted Qīng popular obstetrical-fertility manuals. The original Dàshēng yàozhǐ was composed in the mid-18th century and circulated widely as a charitable-printing text alongside Jízhāi Jūshì’s Dáshēng biān 達生編 (KR3ei055). The Xùzēng (Continued-and-Augmented) version represents the late-Qīng editorial expansion, with additional case-material, prescription supplementation, and refinement of the zhǒngzǐ (fertility) chapters.
Abstract
The KR3ei075 source-file in the krp directory carries only the org-mode header — the full text is not preserved in the krp recension. Bibliographic record is reconstructed from the catalog meta and from indirect references in the obstetrical literature. The catalog meta records Táng Qiānqǐng (清) as author.
The Dàshēng yàozhǐ genre is referenced in Hinrichs & Barnes (2013) under the index entry “Dasheng yaozhi” and described as one of the principal Qīng popular obstetrical handbooks alongside the Dáshēng biān. The text’s clinical signature is the avoidance of fángyào (sexual-prescription / aphrodisiac) drugs in favour of an explicitly Confucian-virtuous approach to fertility — the Yílín cè (KR3ei072) sections on jiéyù, xǐngshēn, and cúnrén (continence, self-examination, and the preservation of mercy / benevolence) heavily influence the Dàshēng yàozhǐ. Bracketing 1762 (a plausible mid-Qián-lóng date for the original) to 1900 (covering the continued-and-augmented late-Qīng phase).
Translations and research
- T. J. Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes, Chinese Medicine and Healing (2013) — index entry on Dasheng yaozhi.
- Yi-Li Wu, Reproducing Women (2010) — for the popular obstetrical-fertility genre.
- No standalone English translation located.
Links
- 海外回歸中醫善本古籍叢書 (Hǎiwài huíguī Zhōngyī shànběn gǔjí cóngshū).
- 續增大生要旨 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB