The ancient Chinese acupuncture

"illustration" acupuncture and moxibustion medical books, is a great invention in the tang dynasty. In fact the word "hall" contains "chart", the meaning of "sketch". Dunhuang literature in the hall five zang-organs theory said: "hall 2 words, its righteousness. Ming, life also; hall, body also. Vertical shape body in the world, the hall and medical care." Good on another doctor Yang also said: "the too element chi-tsong Chen, its shape and the hall table." That is to say, the hall is designed specifically for acupuncture and moxibustion, and charts of the human body.

Chinese acupuncture and moxibustion in the medical books, "hall" is not just the hall humanoid figure "and" the hall acupuncture figure ". "Element asked" who cited "meridians lingers cavity map" and the letters patent cavity in the map, look from the title, is probably the picture, but he didn't come down. Huangdi neijing only words no acupoints. Existing some acupuncture classics such as "acupuncture by party a and party b", "hard", so in huangdi neijing. "Hall acupuncture figure" in 122, after a book Wang Dao "outside Taiwan secret s" mentioned 12 people figure, but the picture of the author and s are unknown, figure did not come down. Until September 1936, the Louvre museum in London, England reading dunhuang examination paper, see the crack section of the main method to figure, recorded in the catalog of Tibetan dunhuang examination paper by the London eye, the Numbers of s. 6168 tong ren acupuncture figure and s. 6262 tong ren acupuncture figure. The picture in the middle of, head upper part, vertical "hall" two characters. Figure of textual research, the main method is copying the ancient medical volume in the tang dynasty, is the changsha mawangdui silk acupuncture, after neijing earliest existing main method book, there is also the earliest figure of acupuncture and moxibustion.

Rare is that color of acupuncture "hall" emerged in the tang dynasty. Who painted sun simiao in ZhenQuan "hall", on the basis of drawing the color of the meridian acupoints. "The twelve meridians, five colours; strange through eight veins, in the green." Unfortunately, sun simiao of the colour chart did not come down. As for the hall humanoid figure "and" the hall acupuncture figure ", have already lost. If not sun simiao in his book, retained their text, and reviews the origin of the latter, may we have today cannot clearly know taizong watch "hall" and cancel the lash back after the detail.