Shòushān bǐjì 壽山筆記
Notes from the Longevity Mountain by 楊淵 Yáng Yuān (zì Zǐān 子安; b. 1813, fl. 1881; late-Qīng physician). The catalog meta lists no author for the text; the self-preface signature attests “Yáng Yuān Zǐān”.
About the work
A one-juǎn clinical-doctrinal notebook by Yáng Yuān, zì Zǐān, in the bǐjì (jotting-notebook) tradition. The title positions the work within an explicit late-Imperial bǐjì-medical lineage: Yáng names Miù Zhòngchún 繆仲淳 (Miù Xīyōng’s Sōngxīn bǐjì 松心筆記) and Yóu Yí 尤怡 (his Yīxué dúshū jì 醫學讀書記, the present KR3eq087) as his models — the Sōngxīn (Pine-Heart) and Dúshū (Reading-Notes) lineage, to which Yáng adds his own Shòushān (Longevity-Mountain) volume in the same spirit. The text proper covers fùkē gynaecology heavily (tāilòu / tāixià / tāidòng — distinctions among different bleeding presentations in pregnancy, with an unusual and notable citation of the forensic-medicine Xǐyuān lù 洗冤錄 as authoritative for the differential diagnosis of tāilòu vs. tāixià), and chǎnhòu postpartum complications (shēnghuà tāng 生化湯 with topical modifications, nèifēng internal-wind tetanus etc.).
Prefaces
The Kanripo source _000 opens with Yáng Yuān’s self-preface, dated 光緒七年春三月下澣 = Guǎngxù 7 / 1881 / late spring, signed “Yáng Yuān Zǐān shí, shí nián liùshíjiǔ” 楊淵子安識，時年六十九 (“Yáng Yuān Zǐān notes [this], at the time aged sixty-nine”). Yáng explains the rationale: medical books are “hànniú chōngdòng” (sweating-the-ox, filling-the-roofbeam — uncountable), but the present generation of physicians read no further than the Tāngtóu gē 湯頭歌 and a few months of apprenticeship before hanging out their shingles. He frames the present work as a record of his “shùshí nián qīnlì zhī bìngàn” (the case records personally experienced over several decades) and the yàolùn (essential treatises) of past masters that he has noted down — preserved here lest they be lost on his retirement.
Abstract
Yáng Yuān 楊淵, zì Zǐān 子安, was a late-Qīng physician. From the dated self-preface aged 69 in 1881, his birth year is 1813; he was active in clinical practice across the entire mid-to-late 19th century. The catalog meta gives the dynasty and source but no author — the attribution rests on the self-preface signature. Composition window 1881–1881 reflects the dated self-preface. The Kanripo source is the only known transmission of the text; modern recovery is via the hxwd repatriation series.
The work has two distinctive features. First, the integration of Xǐyuān lù 洗冤錄 forensic discrimination of xuěkuài (blood-clot) morphology into the differential diagnosis of tāilòu (uterine bleeding without expulsion) versus tāixià (miscarriage) — Yáng explicitly notes that nǚkē (gynaecological) literature had never raised this point, and that the Xǐyuān lù is “pō yǒu bìyì” (of considerable benefit) to medical practice. This is a rare and intellectually interesting late-Imperial crossover between forensic and gynaecological discourse. Second, the círán (compassionate) doctrinal voice combined with sharply pessimistic clinical realism — Yáng catalogues iatrogenic disasters with the same sobriety as the yīyī tradition (cf. KR3eq085 Shènjí chúyán, KR3eq091 Yīdé jí) but without their polemical edge. Not in CBDB.
Translations and research
No substantial European-language translation of Shòu-shān bǐ-jì located. For the late-Imperial crossover between forensic Xǐ-yuān lù discourse and gynaecological practice see Yi-Li Wu, Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China (UC Press, 2010); Daniel Asen, Death in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China (Cambridge, 2016) provides the post-1900 continuation.