The main representatives of sexual literature are shared as follows:
In the medical book category of "Hanshu; Yiwenzhi", there are already thirty-eight volumes of "Bai's Internal Classic". It has always been considered to be the work of Liu Xiang, a famous scholar in the Western Han Dynasty.
The "Biography of Immortals", which was later identified as a work from the 2nd to 3rd century AD through textual research, also mentioned the "Sushu" which talks about "the art of cultivating nature and handover". The sixty-third chapter of the book "The Biography of Immortals" is "The Biography of Nuji". Its protagonist Nuji was originally a drunken woman, but she became immortal through studying "Sushu" and finally abandoned her family to become an immortal. .
The "Sui Shu; Jing Ji Zhi" compiled in the early Tang Dynasty has a volume of "Su Nv Secret Dao Jing" in the medical book category. It is noted that: "Xuan Nv Jing" is also included in the volume "Xuan Nv Jing". "Vegetarian Women's Party" volume. However, in the subsequent Tang and Five Dynasties periods, these sexology works were in vain. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu presided over the compilation of the book "New Book of Tang", and these famous sexology works were not included in his bibliography.
At the same time as the Zhaozong period of the Tang Dynasty in China, the bibliography of the Kanpei period in Japan includes a volume of "Su Nv Jing", but there is no "Xuan Nv Jing" and a volume of "Su Nv Fang". By about this time, these several sexological works had been merged together.
In the second year of Japan's Yongkan period, which is also the first year of Yongxi reign of Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty, Tanba Yasurayi of Japan wrote "Yi Xin Fang", which is based on the contents of several sexology works introduced to Japan during the Tang and Five Dynasties periods of China. Divided into thirty topics to compose a collection.
From the first to the thirtieth, they are: Zhili, Yangyang, Hezhi, Linyu, Wuchang, Five Signs, Five Desires, Ten Movements, Four Zhi, Nine Qi, Nine Dharma, and Ji Thirty Dharma. , nine shapes, six potentials, eight benefits, seven losses, returning essence, giving diarrhea, healing injuries, seeking children, good girls, evil girls, taboos, breaking off ghost relationships, using medicine stones, small jade stems, big jade gates, girl pain , long-term maternal injuries.
Because it has so many categories, it includes the "Su Nv Jing", "Xuan Nv Jing", "Su Nv Fang", "Jade House Secrets", "Jade House Fingertips" and "Dong Xuanzi" which have been lost in China. 》 and most of the income.
In the Guimao year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1902 AD), Chinese scholar Ye Dehui brought "Su Nv Jing" and other books back to China from Japan, and published them according to their original appearance the following year, making these famous works Sexology works returned to China.
Because the "Su Nv Jing" printed by Ye is still a mixture of the original Jing and the "Xuan Nv Jing", most readers, while gratified, still feel that there is a flaw in the ointment, that is, the mixture. and messy.
In view of this, the editor of this book divided it into relatively independent "Su Nv Jing", "Xuan Nv Jing" and "Cai Nv Jing" based on the content of the original book, so that the content of these three books is basically the same as the original one. Relatively independent works on sexology have appeared in front of contemporary Chinese people with a new look, and once again went to the world. Perhaps only in this way can we, the latecomers, truly be worthy of those forefathers who devoted themselves to writing.