I. Compendium of Materia Medica
Compendium of Materia Medica is a masterpiece of materia medica in China history16th century ago. It took Li Shizhen 27 years to complete Compendium of Materia Medica, which was rewritten three times and finalized in the sixth year of Wanli (1578). In order to compile Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen consulted more than 800 books, made many field trips to various places and collected samples, which took a lot of effort.
Compendium of Materia Medica (52 volumes) contains 1892 drugs, with 1 109 drug charts and1096 prescriptions (of which more than 8,000 were collected and formulated by Li Shizhen himself), accounting for about/kloc.
Each drug is divided into the following items: explanation of name (determination of name), centralized explanation (description of origin), right and wrong (correction of mistakes in past literature), treatment (processing method), smell, indication, invention (the first three items refer to analysis of drug's function), and attached prescription (prescription set circulated by the people).
Plant medicine 88 1 species, appendix 6 1 species, * * 942 species, named unused plants 153 species, accounting for 58% of all drugs. Li Shizhen divides plants into five parts: grass part, valley part, vegetable part, fruit part and wood part, and divides the grass part into nine categories: mountain grass, vanilla, wet grass, poisonous grass, creeping weed, water grass, stone grass, Carex and weeds.
Second, "Tiangong Wu Kai"
Wu Kai in the Heavenly Palace records various technologies in ancient China before the middle of Ming Dynasty. The book is divided into three parts, 18 volumes. Attached are 123 illustrations depicting the names, shapes and processes of 130 kinds of production technologies and tools. Including agriculture and handicrafts, such as machinery, bricks and tiles, ceramics, sulfur, candles, paper, weapons, gunpowder, textiles, printing and dyeing, salt making, coal mining and oil extraction.
China's ancient physical knowledge is scattered in the Wu Kai of Tiangong, such as water lifting tools (trucks, beaches, windmills), rudder, pouring steel, clay casting kettle, lost wax casting, methods of removing coal mine gas, brine absorber (pump) in salt wells, melting extraction methods and so on. It is clearly pointed out in the hardware that zinc is a new metal and its smelting method is recorded for the first time.
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Compendium of Materia Medica and the Influence of Wu Kai in Tiangong
I. Compendium of Materia Medica
Compendium of Materia Medica has been translated into Japanese, French, English, German, Russian and other languages since 1593, which has been widely circulated in the world and has had a far-reaching impact. Compendium of Materia Medica has improved the traditional classification method in China, with a unified format and more coherent and accurate narration, which is of great significance to the development of animal and plant taxonomy.
This book is not only a pharmacological work, but also a natural history work that has an impact on the world. It has a wide range of contents and has made certain contributions to biology, chemistry, astronomy, geography, geology, mining and even history.
Second, "Tiangong Wu Kai"
Heavenly Creations is the first comprehensive work on agriculture and handicraft production in the world. It systematically summarizes the ancient technology in China and constitutes a complete scientific and technological system. Summarized the rich agricultural experience and fully reflected the scientific and technological achievements. Many of the production techniques described in the book have been used to modern times.
Wu Kai's introduction into Europe and Japan directly promoted the agricultural revolution in Europe and the development of Japan. British biologist Darwin (1809- 1882) called it "the authoritative work" after reading stanislavski's translation of "Wu Kai in the Heavenly Palace".
China News Network-Jinling Compendium of Materia Medica was selected as "Memory of the World"
Baidu Encyclopedia-Compendium of Materia Medica (Classic of Traditional Chinese Medicine)
Baidu Encyclopedia-Tiangong Wu Kai (China Ancient Scientific Works)