| ObjectiveWith a long history, traditional Chinese medicine is extensive and profound, which leaves us abudunt materials and cultural heritage during its development of thousands of years. Medical cultural relics witnessed the brilliant civilization of Chinese medicine, which provide precious materials for the study of traditional Chinese medicine, and act as the important base for inheriting the quintessence of it. Arranging and studying the medical relics of our country plays an significant role in preserving the material cultural relics of traditional Chinese medicine and inheriting the medical civilization of China.Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdong is one of the earliest built college museums of traditional Chinese medicine, with a collection of over 5000 cultural relics as well as documents and materials of traditionalChinese medicine of all dynasties, among which, there is a large and unique collection of rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy, including many fine examples and rich contents. The rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdong mainly come from the donations by Chinese medical historian Mr. Song Daren in 1982, but it is a pity that so far they haven’t been systematically sorted out and there is little study and discovery in them.Concerning the value of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy in Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdong and the present situation of its study, and targeted at the donations of Mr. Song Daren in 1982, this research is mainly about the arragement and study of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy in Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdong. It arranges and revises the basic information of the collections as well as copies and comments on the postscripts of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy with the aim of digging out the inner meaning of the literary history of Chinese medicine, protecting the excellent cultural resources, and strengthening the value and effect, which serve as an added bonus for studying, inheriting and transmitting the historical and cultural research of traditional Chinese medicine.MethodsThe research first difines the related concepts of the research of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy, decides the research scale and the detailed research target, and then gathers related information. Next, it sorts out the researched rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy, arranges the basic information of the collections one by one, forms the summary table of it and decides the main research contents of different types according to their characteristics. And then, it copies pauses and appropriately comments on the inscriptions and postcripts of the painting and calligraphy one after one, and arranges the contents of the postscripts and the information of the person who makes the postscipt. Last, after wholy grasping the basic information of the collection, the contents of the postscripts and related background, it lays emphasis on discovering fine examples and illustrates their historical and cultural meaning in medicine and comments on their academic, cultural relic and artistic value.The project covers a number of subjects and as far as the research methods are concerned, it has an comprehensive application or reference of philology, history, linguistics, exegetics, archeology, and the study of cultural relics. It particularly applies historical textual research method, documentary textual research method and word textual research method, combining with the commonly used documentary research method, expert consulting method, analyzing method and induction method. The research work goes step by step, from the easy to the difficult adn from the whole to the parts.Furthermore, the arranging and filing work of the basic information of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy in the research mainly refers to the research methods of the non-profit foundation subject of the state science department-" Collection, Research and Preservation of the Key Medical and Health Cultural Relics of Our Country", and it draws on the requirements for arrangement techniques of cultural relics, requirements for register of cultural relics, and rules for filing work of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy, which are revised by the medical history and document research department of traditional Chinese medicine research institute. The naming refers to the related naming standards for cultural relics in "Working Manual for the First National Movable Census of Cultural Relics" published by the press of cultural relics in 2013. Contents and resultsThe research targets at the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy in Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdong (donated by Song Daren). It carefully selects 78 pieces of 52 items of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy with historic or cultural value for traditional Chinese medicine from Checking and Textual Criticism Booklets of the Cultural Relics Exhibits Donated by Song Daren (inner materials of Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdong), moreover, it collects related information and then arranges and studies it.The contents and results are as follows:1. Revise the basic information of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy in GTraditional Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdong.The research arranges and summarizes the included rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy, including gradually arraging and revising the basic information of the name, specification, type, author, writing time, content, inscription,postscript and spreading, and then photographs (combine with the whole and the parts) and file them, Lastly, setting up information archives of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy in Traditonal Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdong.2. Arrange and sort out the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy in Traditonal Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdong.The research classifies and arranges the included rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy, which are mainly divided into two types-painting and calligraphy, rubbings of stone inscriptions, among which there are 66 pieces of 43 items of painting and calligraphy(non rubbings), and 12 pieces of 9 items of rubbings of stone inscriptions (all rubbings). According to the identity of the author, the painting and calligraphy is divided into 3 types, namely, medical painting and calligraphy (16 pieces of 16 items), famous doctors’original painting and calligraphy (37 pieces of 20 items) and Song Daren’s painting and calligraphy (13 pieces of 7 items). The research analyzes the characteristics, values and carried connotation of literature and history of medicine.3. Copy and comment on the inscriptions and postcripts of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy in Traditonal Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdong.The inscriptions and postcripts are important parts of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy, which carry abundant cultural information. Based on the grasp of the overall construction and contents of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy collected in the museum, the research lays emphasis on copying, pausing and commenting on the inscriptions and postscripts one by one and it presents the rich cultural and historic connotation of them in a common way, which lays a solid foundation for preserving the historic materials of traditional Chinese medicine, further discovering its academic connotation and cultural value, and better making use of its spreading effects of traditional chinese medicine culture.4. Discover and study the fine examples of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy in Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdong.On the basis of having an overall grasp of the basic information contents of postscripts and related background of the collections, the author carefully selects the fine examples of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy that are included in the study, further illustrates medical, historical and cultural connotation, and commentates their academic and cultural values. The research emphasizes on studying and introducing the following rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy:There are 3 pieces of he rubbings of stone inscriptions of medical culture, namely, pieces of stone rubbings of Illustrated Manual of Acupuncture Points of the Bronze Figure by Wang Weiyi in North Song Dynasty, Longmen stone rubbings of prescriptions of treating illneses in North Qi Dynasty, stone rubbings of record of events inscribed on a tablet of Buddist Monk Jianzhen in Daming Temple in Tang Dynasty. There are 6 pieces of famous people’s medical painting and calligraphy, include Painting of Herbal Fomes Japonica by Chen Shu in Qing Dynasty, Painting of Expelling Plagues by Baodong from Qing Dynasty, Painting of Miraculous Skill in Curing Diseases by Wang Yiting in the Republic of China, Painting of Lufu Apricot Wood by Xia Jingguan in modern times, semi-cursive script banner by Zhang Daqian in modern times, and Picking Ganoderma by Wu Guandai in modern and contemporary times. There are also 20 pieces of 10 items of Doctors’ original handwriting, including cursive script in fan-like pattern by Wu Shangxian in Qing Dynasty, semi-cursive script poetry volume by Lu Mao in Qing Dynasty, prescription and semi-cursive script in fan-like pattern by He Hongfang in Qing Dynasty, Landscape Painting by Zhengwenzhuo in modern times, semi-cursive script Tao Te Ching by Zhang Binglin in modern times etc. Still, there are 11 pieces of 5 items of Song Daren’s paintings such as his painting of the Four Outstanding Figures of Chinese Medical History etc.ConclusionsThe arrangement and study of cultural relics is the basic work of protecting the cultural inheritage and inheriting civilization. The research is targeted at the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy in Traditonal Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdong.It arranges, revises 78 collections of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy of 52 items, copies and comments on their inscriptions and postscripts, thus lays solid foundation for further studying and ultilizing the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy.The project arranges and studies the four classifications of he collected rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy in Tradition Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdong, including the medical and cultural rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy, famous authors’ medical painting and calligraphy, doctor’s original handwriting and Song Daren’s painting and calligraphy. In the arrangement and discovery, there are important fine examples in all types. The rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy of medical culture represented by Illustrated Manual of Acupuncture Points of the Bronze Figure by Wang Weiyi from North Song Dynasty, Longmen stone rubbings of prescriptions of treating illneses from Northern Qi Dynasty and stone rubbings of record of events inscribed on a tablet of Buddist Monk Jianzhen in Daming Temple in Tang Dynasty witnesses the medical civlization of five thousand years of medical civilization in our country and plays an important role in the study and textual research of the literature and history of Chinese medicine.Both raditional Chinese medicine culture and Chinese painting and calligraphy root in the soil of Chinese culture. The collections of the rubbings of stone inscriptions of painting and calligraphy in Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdongare the babies of traditional Chinese medicine culture and Chinese painting and calligraphy. They deserve the attention of the field of Chinese medicine, the field of painting and calligraphy and other fields in the society, which will help play its cultural effects and play its part in inheriting and spreading Chinese civilization. Famous people’s medical painting and calligraphy include the subject works on medical culture by famous painters and calligraphers ranging from Chen Shu and Bao Dong in Qing Dynasty and Wang Yiting, Xia Jingguan, Zhang Daqian, Wu Guandai in modern times. As fine examples of painting and calligraphy, they have an profound influence on spreading the medical culture of China. The original handwritings of the painting and calligraphy by the famous doctors vividly eyewitness the accomplishments of Sinology of experts of Chinese medicine. From the original painting and calligraphy of famous doctors collected in Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangdong such as Wu Shangxian, Lu Maoxiu, He Hongfang in Qing Dynasty and Zheng wenzhuo, zhang Binglin in modern times, we can fully appreciate the extensive and profound traditional Chinese medical culture rooted in the soil of Chinese culture. Moreover, the modern medical historian Song Daren’s painting and calligraphy on medical culture should also be cherished, whose devotion to studying the history of medicine, determination to collect medical cultural relics and sincerity and talents in creation of medical culture leave precious cultural wealth to the successors who share the same interest. |
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