Huangdi Neijing has eighteen volumes, including nine volumes of Suwen and nine volumes of Lingshu. There was no name of Lingshu in Qin and Han Dynasties, but people called it Jiujuan. Because the first volume of "Nine Needles and Twelve Origins" has a sentence of "needle sutra first", it is also called "needle sutra". Later, there were the names of "Nine Deficiencies" and "Nine Spirits", all of which were Taoist annotations. The name "Lingshu" appeared at the latest, which was decided by Bing Wang, a physician in the middle Tang Dynasty, and was related to "being young and eager to learn, keeping in good health". Because he is also a Taoist, he was named Lingshu.

As early as the Jiayou period of the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1056), there was no complete edition of Lingshu in China. Therefore, when Lin Bu and others were ordered to sort out medical books, they found that China's Lingshu was a remnant and could not be sorted out. The book we saw today is a family biography of Shaoyi Songshi in the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1 155). This book was a proofreading and publishing book presented by North Korea in northern Song Zhezong (A.D. 1093). When this book was published in North Song Zhezong, only a simple proofreading was done; Song Shi, a Shaoxing historian in the Southern Song Dynasty, donated his family biography, although he also made phonetic collation, but it was far below the level of collation of Su Wen by Jiayou Lin Bu and others in the Northern Song Dynasty. Nevertheless, we can see the whole picture of Lingshu today, thanks to the dedication of North Korea and the selfless dedication of Songshi. Otherwise, Lingshu has long been lost and will become an eternal regret!

Lingshu and Suwen are combined into Huangdi Neijing. From the content, the ancients wrote Lingshu first, and then wrote Su Wen, because Su Wen quoted many chapters of Lingshu. Ling Shu talks more about the method of treating diseases, while Su Wen talks more about the fundamental source. The two complement each other and explain each other. The earliest annotation of Lingshu could not be verified before the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and it was not until the end of the Ming Dynasty that the first annotation in the true sense appeared, that is, the annotation of Huangdi Neijing Lingshu Zheng Ma, which was the first annotation of Lingshu, and there were many later generations.