Guànwéi jí 貫唯集
Threading-the-Unity Collection by 通意子 Tōngyìzǐ (Xuánjī dòngzhǔ 璇璣洞主, fl. 1824–1899; pseudonymous).
About the work
A single-juǎn casebook of an elderly late-Qīng physician writing under the literary pseudonym Xuánjī dòngzhǔ Tōngyìzǐ 璇璣洞主通意子, prefaced by the author himself in Guāngxù jǐhài (1899) at the age of seventy-five suì. The title Guànwéi 貫唯 (“threading the Unity”) references the Lúnyǔ passage on yīyǐ guànzhī 一以貫之 (One-thread-through-it), and the author interprets it as the sage-physician’s “heart-to-heart resonance” with the medical Way.
Prefaces
The 漢學文典 _000.txt opens with the zìxù dated Qīng Guāngxù jǐhài xiǎochūn yuè (1899, tenth lunar month), signed Xuánjī dòngzhǔ Tōngyìzǐ zì xù, shí nián qīshí yǒu wǔ suì (璇璣洞主通意子自序，時年七十有五歲). The author describes a fifty-year clinical career rooted in a strong teacher-lineage; he had never previously preserved any case-records (“written and discarded as I went, lest my wording be inadequate and ridiculed”), and was finally persuaded by his disciples to permit the present compilation. The naming of the work — Guànwéi — invokes the Confucian-Daoist ideal of unifying-by-the-One.
Abstract
Internal evidence places the author’s birth around 1824/25 and his clinical activity from c. 1849 to 1899. The pseudonyms Xuánjī dòngzhǔ (“Master of the Mystic-Mechanism Grotto”) and Tōngyìzǐ (“Master of Penetrating Intentionality”) are Daoist-coloured literary signatures of a kind common among late-Qīng scholar-physicians; the real personal identity is unrecoverable from the surviving text.
The cases open with 肝風 (liver-wind), with consistent attention to the seasonal phase (chūnfēn qiánhòu, chángxià) and exact pulse-and-tongue findings. Prescription style favours Xuánfùhuā / Bànxià / Chìfúlíng light-descending combinations, Xiāngfù / Yánhú for qi-binding, and Wùzéigǔ / Mǔlì / Shíjuémíng sealing-and-mineral elements — a textbook late-Yè-school Sūzhōu prescribing repertoire. The author cites Zhòngjǐng fǎ (仲景法) and Jīnguì fǎ (金匱法) explicitly, confirming a Shānghán / Jīnguì doctrinal grounding behind the surface Yè-school clinical signature.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.
Links
- Comparable late-Qīng pseudonymous scholar-physician casebooks of the Daoist-coloured literary tradition.
- Kanseki DB
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