The Book of Qi Yao Min: It was written at the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty (533 -544 AD). It is a comprehensive agricultural work written by Jia Sixie, an outstanding agronomist from Northern Wei Dynasty to Southern Song Dynasty to Liang Dynasty. It is also one of the earliest monographs in the world agricultural history and the earliest complete agricultural book in China.
2, "Meng Qian Bi Tan"
Meng Qian Bi Tan is a comprehensive note work written by Shen Kuo (1031-1095), a scientist and politician in the Northern Song Dynasty, which involves natural science, technology and social and historical phenomena in ancient China. This book is also very valuable in the world, and it was appraised as "a milestone in the history of science in China" by the British historian Joseph Needham.
3. "Heavenly Creativeness"
"Heavenly Creations" was first published in 1637 (the tenth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty), with three volumes and eighteen articles. The book covers the production technologies of machinery, bricks, ceramics, sulfur, candles, paper, weapons, gunpowder, textiles, printing and dyeing, salt making, coal mining, oil extraction and other agricultural and handicraft industries.
Heavenly Creations is the first comprehensive work on agriculture and handicraft production in the world. It is a comprehensive scientific and technological work in ancient China. Others call it an encyclopedic work. The writer is Song, a scientist in Ming Dynasty. Foreign scholars call it "China17th century craft encyclopedia".
4. Compendium of Materia Medica
Compendium of Materia Medica, 52 volumes. Li Shizhen (Dongbi) in Ming Dynasty was written in the 31st year of Jiajing (1552) to the 6th year of Wanli (1578), and it was revised three times. This book is written in the style of "following the outline", so it is named "Outline". Revise it based on Zheng Ben Cao. The preface (volume 1, 2) is equivalent to the general introduction, which describes the main references of materia medica and the theory of medicinal properties.
Volume 1 Materia Medica of Past Dynasties introduces 4 1 species of main materia medica before the Ming Dynasty. The second time, I collected the discourses about the yin-yang smell of drugs, five taboos, specimen yin-yang, ups and downs, reinforcing and reducing, quoting classics, and various drug taboos before the Ming Dynasty, most of which were in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties.
Volumes 3 ~ 4 are "Indicating Drugs for All Diseases", which follow the old example of "General Drugs for All Diseases" in "Materia Medica of Syndrome Types", and list the names and main functions of indications with evil as the key link, which is equivalent to a manual of clinical medication.
Volumes 5-52 are all about the theory, including 1892 kinds of drugs, and the attached figure is 1 109 kinds. Its general example is "there is no difference between the three products, but one after another;" Things follow the class, eyes follow the outline. "Among them, 16 series (water, fire, soil, stone, grass, valley, vegetable, fruit, wood, utensils, insects, scales, vectors, birds, animals and people) are scored as 60 categories.
5. Shennong Herbal Classic
Shennong Herbal Classic, also known as Herbal Classic or Benjing, is one of the four classic works of Chinese medicine. As the earliest extant TCM works, it originated from Shennong and was handed down from generation to generation. It was compiled into a book in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and this book was not written by one person. Many medical scientists in Qin and Han dynasties collected, summarized and compiled the monographs on pharmaceutical experience at that time, which was the first book in China to systematically summarize traditional Chinese medicine.
Most theories and compatibility laws of TCM and the principle of "seven emotions in harmony" have played a great role in the practice of medication for thousands of years and are the source of the development of TCM theory. Before Li Shizhen published Compendium of Materia Medica, it was always regarded as the most authoritative medical book.