Bìxié guìsǒu 閉邪瞶叟 (“The Closed-Off-Evil Blind Old Man”) is the pseudonym of the Jīn-period (1115–1234) editor and printer who cut and supplemented the 1186 (Jīn Dàdìng 26) augmented and annotated recension of 王惟一 Wáng Wéiyī’s 1027 Sòng acupuncture canon, the Xīnkān bǔzhù Tóngrén shūxué zhēnjiǔ tújīng 新刊補註銅人腧穴鍼灸圖經 KR3ee057. His civil identity is not preserved.
The pseudonym is constructed from two Confucian self-deprecating topoi: bìxié 閉邪 (“close off the evil and preserve one’s sincerity”), drawn from the Yìjīng Wényán commentary on the Qián 乾 hexagram (閉邪存其誠), and guìsǒu 瞶叟 (“blind old man”), a Jīn-period epithet for one who claims not to see clearly into the world’s affairs. The choice of pseudonym is consistent with an Imperial Medical College physician of the Jīn court at Yānjīng 燕京 (modern Beijing) who chose to conceal his name when reissuing the canonical Sòng imperial commission under the new dynasty — a not-uncommon Jurchen-period editorial practice. His five-juan augmentation added needling-technique and disease-indexed-prescription apparatus to the 1027 three-juan original, producing the form in which the Tóngrén tradition circulated through the rest of the JīnYuánMíng period and which is preserved in the 1909 Liúshì Xuántǒng photo-lithographic reproduction held at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge (cf. Hinrichs & Barnes 2013, 105).