Ancient and modern Chinese medicine literature contains profound Chinese medicine theory and rich clinical experience, which is a very valuable resource treasure. It is essential to read the original text in order to inherit the knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. The course "Documentary of Traditional Chinese Medicine" can improve our ability to sort out, study and use Chinese medicine literature, guide us to identify, select and read Chinese medicine literature from the vast sea of Chinese medicine literature, explore treasures from ancient and modern Chinese medicine literature, draw nutrition from it and improve academic level. Therefore, mastering certain knowledge of TCM philology is a basic skill that every practitioner of TCM must possess, especially for high-level TCM talents.
The Documentary of Traditional Chinese Medicine edited by Yan Jilan and Chen Renshou (a textbook for graduate students of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine in Chinese medicine colleges) has the following characteristics:
1. Introduce basic knowledge and teach research methods. This textbook is divided into two parts. The first part is the basic part, which mainly introduces the basic knowledge such as naming, style, carrier, catalogue, edition, collation, annotation, textual research, identification and compilation of Chinese medicine literature, teaches the basic theories and methods of Chinese medicine literature, cultivates graduate students' ability of literature collation and research, and guides learning methods.
2. Academic analysis of traditional Chinese medicine and literature origin. The next part of the textbook is "the source and direction of Chinese medicine literature in past dynasties", which introduces Chinese medicine literature in past dynasties. Firstly, the characteristics of TCM literature in different dynasties are summarized, and then 140 important works of past dynasties are selected to introduce their authors, contents, compilation characteristics, academic achievements and versions. Make graduate students have a systematic understanding of the origin and basic literature of traditional Chinese medicine in past dynasties, strengthen their literature foundation and broaden their academic horizons, so that they can use ancient and modern Chinese medicine literature to carry out academic and theoretical research of traditional Chinese medicine with ease.
3. Absorb new achievements, introduce new methods and new teaching materials that reflect the new progress of academic research, such as newly unearthed documents and new research results, and introduce new research methods used in TCM literature research in recent years, such as multivariate statistics, systematic review, data mining and digitization of ancient books. To make up for the shortcomings of traditional literature research methods.