The Research Introduction To Relationship Between Style Of Chinese Medical Ancient Literature And TCM’ Academic

Style is the way arranged to organize a text or writings. It has far-reaching historical and cultural origins. As the manifestation of the content of a work, to some extent it also reflects updates and changes on the academic. This paper focuses on history of the style in Chinese ancient medical literature, and the relations to academic development of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) was discussed.The paper outlines relationship between the concept of style and its function, as well as style and academic development. All Chinese ancient medical literatures are defined into five categories, in every which examples are cited to interpretation the viewpoints.First, the paper summarized the spread and changes of TCM literatures during the period of proofreading books by Liu Xiang in the West Han Dynasty. It was indicated that the compile of HANSHU·FANGJILUE played a key role in the nexus of TCM literatures development. By analyzing the style of FANGJILUE, the paper presents that Pian was the first stage of directory in Liu Xiang’s works, and HUANGDINEJING was named at that time.This study integrates the concept of style after refining the fragments scattered in the literatures of related subjects, including bibliography, subject of version, subject of proofreading, etc. To examine the style of five categories Literatures:comprehensive classics, ShangHan and JinGui, BenCao, FangShu, clinical subjects(including internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and pediatrics). Following the methods of classical philology, After a detailed comparison of the styles in every categories of different periods, this paper analyzes and discusses style features which relate to academic development of TCM.About the categories of comprehensive classics:mainly on the structure of volumes and chapters. The study find that structure changes also reflect the prevailing medical thought changes. For example, about the style of SUWEN, the differences between the version of Quan Yuanqi comments and the version of Wang Bing comments suggest that, during the period of Han-Jin-Tang dynasties, medical value changed, from paying attention to judging living or dying, to attaching importance to health practice. Wang Bing revised the book from9volumes to24volumes, which may due to his belief of Yun-Qi theory.About the categories of Shanghan&Jingui:mainly on the styles of SHANGHANLUN interpretations in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasty. The styles reflect different academic opinions of academic groups.About the categories of BenCao:comprehensive herbal books. By investigating the herbal number in the prescription, preface, classification, sub-book style, the core knowledge, changes in the drug chart and attached prescription, the study finds that each aspect reflects the academic background.About the categories of FangShu:mainly on representative prescription monographs of various history periods. The study find that the characteristics of the book styles maintain consistencies to the main culture features corresponding to history periods. About the categories of clinical subjects(including internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and pediatrics):some characteristics are induced. First, clinical monographs appeared relatively late while clinical division early; second, the literatures differentiated gradually.About the categories of internal medicine:since ZHUBINYUANHOULUN set stroke to the first place of internal diseases, most of later monographs followed.About the categories of surgery:most of the representative surgery works adopt the form of all prescriptions after all syndromes. The style suggests that fixed-mode prescriptions formed in early time, then later doctors followed.About the categories of gynecology:in Ming dynasty, Chen Ziming set Regulating the Menstruation as the first chapter, which changed the traditional pattern of Birth first or Miscellaneous Diseases first. This change impacted the cognition about woman diseases.About the categories of pediatrics:since XIAOERYAOZHENGZHIJUE first utilized five internal organs dialectical method in Song Dynasty, this method became the most popular dialectical method in pediatrics. The paper gives a summary on all the styles’developments derived from the literatures above, which concludes that, it reflects The overall feature of TCM academic development:Han Dynasty, the founding period of TCM academic system;Wei, Jin, South and North Dynasties, development of clinical subjects;Sui and Tang Dynasties, remodeling and development of TCM academic;Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, consolidation and innovation period of TCM academic; Ming and Qing Dynasties, the mature period of the TCM academic.In addition, this paper summarizes two common phenomenon of TCM literaturestyle: the puzzle phenomenon and the spindle phenomenon.The puzzle phenomenon:through the interpretations of SHANGHANLUN, it brought about innovative thoughts of prescription classification, and reflected therapy methods from multiple levels, such as syndromes, treatments, prescriptions, etc.The spindle phenomenon:the phenomenon of comment stacks on classic works. thus it ensures stable inheritance of TCM academic and orderly development.