Tianhui Medical Bamboo Slips was officially published by the National Cultural Relics Publishing House in February 2023, which also means that 8 kinds of precious medical books consisting of nearly 1000 medical bamboo slips and more than 25,000 words will be published for the first time. On April 20th, a press conference on the collation and publication of Tianhui Medical Bamboo Slips was held in Chengdu. According to the data, Tianhui Medical Bamboo Slips may be a lost medical book in Bian Que.
The research on the medical records of Tianhui includes the procedures of cleaning, sorting and reading, and scanning the medical records with digital technology to identify them. On more than 900 unearthed medical bamboo slips, there are roughly 20,000 words, as well as Zhuanli, Gulili and Lishu, and there are also many local dialects in bamboo books.
Tianhui medical bamboo slips unearthed on Chengdu Metro Line 3. Bamboo slips have been soaked in water for more than 2000 years, and the fragments and clutter are very serious. Combining the shape, overlapping, font differences and contents of bamboo slips, the sorting team imitated the process of making bamboo slips by the ancients, and solved the key and difficult problems such as binding and interpretation of bamboo slips in three years.
After sorting and splicing, 930 medical slips and more than 20 thousand Chinese characters were obtained, and books such as seal script, ancient script and official script were also found. It can be seen that they were used by the tomb owner before his death, not copied at one time when he was buried. Eight medical bamboo slips (upper meridian of pulse book, lower meridian of pulse book, anti-five-color pulse and anti-inflammatory spirit, pricking Shu, treating sixty diseases, Qi Tang method, medical horse book, meridian book, etc.) and the report on the collation of human meridians by lacquer wood people.
Release background
From 20 12 to 20 13, Chengdu Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated four wooden tombs of the Western Han Dynasty in Tianhui Town, Chengdu, and unearthed more than 620 relics such as lacquerware, pottery, a small amount of bronze and iron, among which the most important ones were the public and private documents unearthed in m/kloc-0, the jade Zhang unearthed in m and four bamboo loom models.
The excavation project was selected as "Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in China in 20 13". On April 20, 2023, the press conference on the collation and publication of Tianhui Medical Bamboo Slips was held in Chengdu. Tianhui Medical Bamboo Slips is the most abundant, complete and theoretically and clinically valuable ancient medical literature discovered so far in China.