Brief introduction of ancient medical literature

"Ancient Chinese Medicine" is the name of a book, which was approved as an excellent teaching material for Beijing higher education in 2007 and used by higher vocational colleges of Chinese medicine and adult education. This is a practical reference book.

From the compilation of the syllabus to the final completion of this textbook, it has experienced several degrees of cold and heat. Ancient medical literature is a subject to study the language and cultural phenomena of ancient Chinese medicine books and a basic course for Chinese medicine majors. The purpose of teaching Chinese ancient books is to help students read Chinese ancient books smoothly with the help of reference books through the selection of ancient medical documents and the teaching of basic knowledge of ancient Chinese. At the same time, through the teaching of ancient Chinese medicine, students can understand the culture and essence of Chinese medicine, improve their humanistic quality and moral cultivation, and lay a solid cultural foundation for learning Chinese medicine well. Ancient medical works are ancient classical Chinese with medical contents. In order to understand this aspect of classical Chinese, we should also learn some closely related ancient language knowledge. Therefore, ancient language knowledge related to ancient medical literature is the main content of ancient medical literature. Ancient medical literature is the basis of traditional Chinese medicine. "Ancient Chinese Medicine" is a course to study the language and cultural phenomena of ancient medical literature, a basic course for seven-year Chinese medicine majors and undergraduates, and a main course in Chinese medicine colleges.

The purpose of teaching is to enable students to master the common words and their main meanings in ancient medical books, the basic knowledge of ancient Chinese and the basic skills of sentence breaking, modern translation and text understanding on the basis of the existing knowledge of classical Chinese, so that they can read ancient medical books smoothly, clear the obstacles of arts and sciences for the follow-up courses and learning ancient medical books after graduation, and urge some students to further study and develop in this professional field.

The teaching of this course aims at cultivating students' comprehensive grasp of the essence of ancient Chinese medicine, improving students' humanistic quality and language level, perfecting knowledge structure, further improving students' understanding and analysis ability of Chinese medicine spirit, helping students to form personality and doctor temperament, and laying a solid and reliable foundation for engaging in clinical or other medical and health work of Chinese medicine in the future.

Based on "Ancient Chinese Medicine", this course is a series of courses with Chinese medicine characteristics, which integrates ancient Chinese medicine (selected works), general theory of ancient Chinese medicine, notes on the outline of ancient Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine philology. It is helpful for students to broaden their horizons, enrich their knowledge and improve their academic accomplishment.

Introduction to ancient Chinese medicine 1. The Nature and Function of "Ancient Chinese Medicine" The classic works of Chinese medicine are written in ancient Chinese, and Chinese medicine itself is deeply rooted in the fertile soil of China traditional culture. If you want to "apply the world", you must have a deep understanding of ancient Chinese and traditional culture. Therefore, as far as its nature and function are concerned, Ancient Medical Texts is a subject to study the language, characters, documents and culture of ancient Chinese medicine books, a basic and tool course for Chinese medicine majors in colleges and universities, an important course for quality education of traditional Chinese medicine students and a major course for lifelong education of traditional Chinese language and culture for Chinese medicine practitioners. Learning, mastering and applying the knowledge and methods of ancient Chinese medicine to cultivate and improve the level of ancient Chinese medicine is of great practical significance and far-reaching significance for improving the traditional language and cultural accomplishment and comprehensive professional quality that Chinese medicine workers must have, and then continuing to study ancient Chinese medicine in depth and promoting the inheritance and development of Chinese medicine academic and Chinese medicine cause. Second, the teaching purpose and task of "Ancient Chinese Medicine" In a broad sense, the purpose and task of teaching ancient Chinese medicine is to enable students to directly read, understand, explain and study the literary significance of ancient Chinese medicine books through the study of ancient medical anthology and basic knowledge of ancient Chinese, and to use them correctly. In a narrow sense, it is to let students directly read, understand and explain the language problems and their meanings of ancient Chinese medicine books with the help of reference books, and to punctuate, punctuate and translate them. This syllabus is based on narrow teaching objectives and tasks. Based on the nature and function of this course, Ancient Chinese Medicine also has the purpose and task of cultivating China's language and cultural literacy and humanistic quality with Chinese medicine characteristics. Third, the teaching content of "Ancient Medical Literature" The teaching content of "Ancient Medical Literature" is determined according to the teaching purpose. As far as architecture is concerned, it is divided into three parts: selected works, basic knowledge and practice. Among them, Wenxuan is divided into medical anthology and medical-related or closely related anthology according to its nature; According to its content and times, it can be divided into doctor biographies, medical book sequences, medical papers and medical papers. The teaching of anthology focuses on the linguistic knowledge of characters, words, sentences and meanings and traditional cultural knowledge, with the aim of enabling students to accumulate necessary perceptual materials of ancient medical books and cultivate certain perceptual knowledge. Basic Knowledge is mainly divided into nine chapters (nine categories), namely: reference books, Chinese characters, vocabulary, grammar, rhetoric, exegesis, sentence reading, language translation and cultural common sense. The teaching of these contents is based on the principle of giving consideration to the system and highlighting the key points, aiming at cultivating students with certain theoretical knowledge and methods and the ability to solve practical problems. "Practice" is a highly targeted training, which aims to deepen the content and main points of each chapter and cultivate students' ability to correctly explain words, break sentences and translate words. Fourth, the teaching of Ancient Chinese Medicine requires students to learn the contents stipulated in the syllabus, and students meet the following standards: 1. They can read traditional Chinese characters and write corresponding simplified Chinese characters. 2. Be able to identify the commonly used characters, ancient characters and variant characters selected in this paper, and write their corresponding original characters, near-style characters and regular script characters; 3. Be able to accurately explain the form, sound and meaning of the selected words, especially common words (including monosyllabic words, polysyllabic words, polyphonic words, idioms, allusions, etc.). ); 4. Be able to explain various special grammatical and rhetorical phenomena in the selected text; 5. Be able to correctly understand the meanings of sentences, paragraphs and articles in ancient medical literature; 6, understand the basic theory of "basic knowledge", master the application method, and be able to explain related problems; 7. Be able to accurately and fluently translate ancient Chinese with literal translation as the main and free translation as the supplement; 8. For ancient Chinese passages without punctuation marks, sentences can be accurately broken; Principles and methods of teaching ancient medical texts 1. As anthology is a living teaching material of ancient medical literature, the theory is summarized from the study of it, so both teaching and learning should focus on anthology, supplemented by basic knowledge, and pay attention to the correct interpretation of vocabulary and the accumulation of commonly used words. On this basis, we can translate the text correctly and read the ancient Chinese paragraphs without punctuation correctly. 2. According to the characteristics of this course and the students' reality, the anthology and basic knowledge should be reasonably crossed; 3. Adhere to the principle of integrating theory with practice, that is, intensive reading, diligent practice and more practice; 4. Word discrimination, word interpretation, sentence analysis (including sentence reading) and meaning interpretation (including language translation) are four main links that constitute the reading, understanding and learning ability of medical ancient books, so teaching and learning should be carried out around these four links; 5. In the relationship between literature and science, literature and medicine, literature should be given priority to in principle, giving consideration to science and medicine, so as to reflect the professional basic nature and instrumental role of ancient medical literature. Teachers and students should also constantly improve their own quality and moral cultivation according to the characteristics and profound connotation of ancient medical classics; 6. In order to effectively understand the content of this course, students should also make preparations before class, take notes of lectures in class and review after class, complete homework exercises on time, and summarize, summarize and review in different degrees by classification, stratification and stages. Class hours and credits 1. Class hours: At present, the total class hours of ancient Chinese medicine courses are 54~72 hours: 54 hours for clinical majors of traditional Chinese and western medicine and 72 hours for orthopedic majors of acupuncture and massage of traditional Chinese medicine. 2. Credits: calculated according to the standard method, that is, 18 hours is 1 credit, so 54 hours is 3 credits and 72 hours is 4 credits. Seven. Use of textbooks and reference textbooks 1. Textbook use: (1) Jiang, editor-in-chief: Chinese Medicine Intensive Reading Textbook for National Colleges and Universities and Ancient Medical Literature (Shanghai Science and Technology Press, August 2007,No. 1 edition); (2) Duan Yishan, editor-in-chief: Ancient Chinese Medicine textbook (China Traditional Chinese Medicine Press, 2nd edition, July 2007) 2. Reference textbook: (1) Duan Yishan: Textbook of Ancient Chinese Medicine (Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House, 65438+1 June 984) (2) Duan Yishan: Ancient Chinese Medicine (People's Health Publishing House, 200 1 March,1Edition)