The Yellow Emperor Tang Mingjing is also called Tang Mingjing in history. Tracing back to ancient history, the earliest word "Tang Ming" once referred to a building in the era of the Yellow Emperor, which was a place for the Yellow Emperor to observe the celestial phenomena, observe the four directions and hold major political and cultural activities. Later, books on acupoints were generally named "Tang Ming", and the key reason was that the ancients adopted the most common method of "taking images and analogies" in traditional Chinese medicine. In the theory of acupuncture and moxibustion, acupoints are divided into twelve meridians, and each meridian has five defeats, all of which flow from bottom to top in turn, which is consistent with the characteristics that there are twelve palaces in Tang Ming Lou, and emperors live in one room every month and take turns living. Moreover, the principle of selecting five acupoints for acupuncture treatment is also related to seasons, which is also in line with the characteristics of "Tang Ming". Since the Yellow Emperor Tang Mingjing was named after the word "Tang Ming", Tang Ming related to the lunar calendar has gradually become synonymous with acupuncture books, so that Tang Ming has become synonymous with acupuncture.
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In China, the original work of Huangdi Tangmingjing was lost in the Song Dynasty at the latest, but its contents were collected and preserved by later generations.
Tang Mingjing was first quoted in Wei and Jin Dynasties, but it was not copied according to the prototype of Tang Mingjing because it was a book. In the Tang Dynasty, * * * ordered the Tang Ming Classic to be rebuilt twice: one was the Tang Ming Tu compiled by Zhen Quan, and the other was the Thirteen Volumes of Huangdi Neijing Tang Ming annotated by Yang Shangshan; In addition, Cao annotated Huangdi Jing. Among them, Yang Shangshan's Huangdi Neijing Tang Ming is worthy of attention, which retains more original contents of Huangdi Tangmingjing. Unfortunately, only a part of the preface and volume were left, which were hidden in Ningna Temple. However, it is gratifying that even though this book is incomplete, its contents have been compiled by Danbo Kanglai, Japan, so the existing Medical Heart Prescription is a precious material for studying the contents of the Yellow Emperor Tang Mingjing.
It is worth mentioning that in the ancient medical papers unearthed in Dunhuang, China, there are three pages of acupuncture literature, which was confirmed as the ancient edition of the Yellow Emperor Tang Mingjing by the Japanese monk Yang.
In addition, according to the contents of Tang Ming Classic preserved in the literature, such as Acupuncture A-B Classic, Medicine Heart Prescription, etc. Huang Longxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, compiled the Tang Mingjing in 1988, entitled Edited and Corrected by Huangdi Tang Ming Jing, through careful textual research and collating research, combined with the valuable data accumulated by Wang Xuetai for many years.
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The Yellow Emperor Tang Mingjing was written from the end of the Western Han Dynasty to the Yanping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty (65438 BC +038 ~ 65438 AD +006), which is the first monograph on acupoints in China. In the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, before acupuncture became an independent major, a large number of acupuncture treatment contents were scattered in medical books such as Medical Classics and Classic Prescriptions. According to the Records of Hanshu Yiwenzhi, there are seven medical classics and eleven prescriptions, with a total of 490 volumes. Huangdi Tang Ming Jing is a comprehensive summary of acupuncture literature scattered in medical books before Han Dynasty. It draws lessons from a large number of acupuncture literature in medical books including Neijing before and after the Han Dynasty, and comprehensively and systematically summarizes and unifies the name, position, indications and acupuncture methods of acupoints for the first time. Its appearance marks a qualitative leap of acupuncture discipline after Neijing, with acupuncture monographs growing from scratch and the number of acupoints increasing sharply. In China, almost all acupuncture teaching and clinical acupoint selection before the Song Dynasty were based on this book, so Huangdi Tangmingjing was equivalent to a factual standard in the early history of acupuncture development in China, which had a very far-reaching impact on the development of acupuncture and acupoint selection in later generations.