Ancient medical literature can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Ancient medical literature in a broad sense refers to all selected medical and pharmaceutical books in ancient China. The narrow sense of medical ancient prose is the course of medical ancient prose we have learned today. It is also the knowledge that I want to focus on here. This narrow sense of medical ancient prose is divided by word meaning, which has two meanings: "medicine" and "ancient prose", which refers to Chinese medicine, including its history and culture; "Ancient prose" refers to ancient languages and characters. Therefore, the connotation of ancient Chinese medicine includes two aspects: one is the language of ancient Chinese medicine; Second, the history and culture of ancient Chinese medicine. For us medical students, in short, ancient medical classics are a basic course and discipline to study ancient medical literature and language and cultural phenomena in the motherland.
It is necessary to understand the learning object, but it is not enough to master only one concept, but also to have a comprehensive understanding of its content. For example, the requirements of the outline. The style of teaching materials, highlighting key points and so on. Learning is effective only if you have a comprehensive understanding and mastery of the content of learning. So, this leads to the second question I want to talk about.
2 "Ancient Chinese Medicine" learning content
As the carrier of China's medical technology, language and culture, ancient medical literature has developed in its unique way during thousands of years of historical development and inheritance, and gradually formed a cultural system with deep foundation, unique theory, diverse disciplines and diverse forms. In the textbook "Ancient Chinese Medicine" edited by Professor Duan Yishan, biographies of famous doctors, prefaces of medical books, medical explanations, typical cases of medical records, etc. are selected, which embodies the essence of ancient Chinese medicine culture, and integrates ancient philosophy, medicine, literature, history, ethics and other physicians' theories, hundred schools of thought's thoughts and theories into the text, and becomes a family of its own.
Specific analysis, in terms of writing style, is divided into two parts (reading anthology); The second part (basic knowledge, reading guidance self-study textbook); And appendices. The first part of the reading collection consists of 40 biographies, prefaces, medical theories, medical principles and other genres; The second part of the basic knowledge includes Chinese characters, vocabulary, grammar, rhetoric, modern translation, ancient cultural knowledge, etc. The appendix consists of two parts: the comparison table of simplified and complicated characters and the arrangement table of variant characters. The whole textbook is reasonable in style, moderate in capacity and easy to learn. However, after all, this is a huge book with more than 700,000 words, which is generally difficult for beginners to learn. Only by seeing the whole picture and grasping Ken can we learn something. How to understand the whole picture of the textbook and grasp the key points of the text? This is the third question I want to focus on.
3 How to master the key points and methods of learning Ancient Chinese Medicine
Ancient medical prose, the first word is "medical", the second word is "ancient", which is difficult to understand, and the third word is "Wen", which makes traditional Chinese characters difficult to recognize. Difficult! Difficult! Difficult! In the face of all kinds of difficulties in learning, it is particularly important to master the key points and methods that can overcome difficulties and win.
According to the author's practice, the main points and methods of learning ancient Chinese medicine can be summarized as follows: grasping a key point; Clarify three purposes; Pay attention to five aspects.
3. 1 Grasp a key point, that is, fully grasp the meaning of ancient Chinese medicine keywords. China language, regardless of ancient and modern times, is the basic unit of language organization. If we don't have a good grasp of the number of words, the meaning of words and the use of words, it will be difficult to learn ancient medical literature well. Therefore, the first problem in studying ancient medical literature is to make great efforts to master the meaning of words. If the number of words in the chest is a fraction of a claw, it is like finding a fish from a tree, it is difficult to achieve the goal. Only by mastering the number of words, such as Han Xin, can we achieve mastery in the understanding of word meaning and use it skillfully.