Recommendation of Treatments Based on Syndrome Differentiation in Si Digest
The book Thinking about Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment is broad and profound. Yu Jiaxi spent more than 50 years studying 490 kinds of ancient books. These ancient books span the categories of classics, history, sub-books, collections, etc., correcting mistakes in abstraction and supplementing omissions. Textual research on the names, times, places of origin and life stories of characters must refer to official history, biographies and epitaphs; For historical facts, it is necessary to find out their ins and outs, compare their similarities and differences, put them in the big background, analyze them in detail and make textual research in many ways; For books, we must be clear about their style, widely quote official and folk bibliographies of past dynasties, as well as the records of art and literature classics in the official history of past dynasties, or clearly distinguish their themes, or investigate the source and development of their versions, so as to facilitate the use of books and ancient books in the Qing Dynasty. Throughout the book, the materials are extensive, the textual research is accurate, the methods are diverse, the new ideas are repeated, seeking truth from facts, and there is no empty talk. Although Dialectics was specially written for abstraction, it actually made great contributions to the study of ancient history, literature, philosophy, philology and academic history in China.