Philosophy and Philology: Two Approaches of Commentating the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Classic of the Materia Medica) in the Ming and Qing Dynasties
This paper tests the hypothesis that the commentary trend of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Classic of the Materia Medica) arises alongside the fashionable philology of the time, or the aversion against the Jin-Yuan medical philosophy. After surveying 12 major commentaries, it is concluded...
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| description | This paper tests the hypothesis that the commentary trend of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Classic of the Materia Medica) arises alongside the fashionable philology of the time, or the aversion against the Jin-Yuan medical philosophy. After surveying 12 major commentaries, it is concluded that the situation is more complicated than a simple assertion. The seemingly opposite philosophy and philology approaches have been used eclectically to innovate the understanding of ancient traditional Chinese medicine texts. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b0f9fffa04224e99b19a247dbf0fbddb2025-08-20T02:16:59ZengWolters Kluwer Health/LWWChinese Medicine and Culture2589-96272023-03-016110010710.1097/MC9.0000000000000043202303000-00010Philosophy and Philology: Two Approaches of Commentating the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Classic of the Materia Medica) in the Ming and Qing DynastiesChe-chia CHANG0Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, ChinaThis paper tests the hypothesis that the commentary trend of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Classic of the Materia Medica) arises alongside the fashionable philology of the time, or the aversion against the Jin-Yuan medical philosophy. After surveying 12 major commentaries, it is concluded that the situation is more complicated than a simple assertion. The seemingly opposite philosophy and philology approaches have been used eclectically to innovate the understanding of ancient traditional Chinese medicine texts.http://journals.lww.com/10.1097/MC9.0000000000000043 |
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| title | Philosophy and Philology: Two Approaches of Commentating the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Classic of the Materia Medica) in the Ming and Qing Dynasties |
| title_full | Philosophy and Philology: Two Approaches of Commentating the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Classic of the Materia Medica) in the Ming and Qing Dynasties |
| title_fullStr | Philosophy and Philology: Two Approaches of Commentating the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Classic of the Materia Medica) in the Ming and Qing Dynasties |
| title_full_unstemmed | Philosophy and Philology: Two Approaches of Commentating the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Classic of the Materia Medica) in the Ming and Qing Dynasties |
| title_short | Philosophy and Philology: Two Approaches of Commentating the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Classic of the Materia Medica) in the Ming and Qing Dynasties |
| title_sort | philosophy and philology two approaches of commentating the shen nong ben cao jing shen nong s classic of the materia medica in the ming and qing dynasties |
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