北宋铜人针灸石经史迹内容考

Investigation on the Histerical Relic of Stone Inscription Depicting the Acupuncture Bronze Figure in North Song Dynasty

中国古代儒家、佛教经典刻石谓之石经。医学史上也有一部宏伟的石经——北宋天圣《新铸铜人腧穴针灸图经》碑刻,距今已九百六十年,对中国医学的发展做出过重大贡献。由于它被埋没地下五百四十五年,渐被人们淡忘。而今鉴于其部分碑刻残石的出土,笔者考其沿革与内容,以还这部医学石经本貌。一、沿革简史北宋初,海内统一,皇室为在文化上加强中央集权制,设置崇文院,笼络诸王的旧臣,尽收用置之馆阁使修群书,广其卷帙,厚赐俸禄,以役其心。

The stone inscription depicting the 'Illustrated Classic of Points of Acupuncture and Moxibustion on Newly Cast Bronze Figure' in Tiansheng Period, North Song Dynasty goes far back 960 years, and it is a great event in the history of the development of acupuncture &. moxibustion in China and has made great contribution to developing acupuncture and moxibustion. Since the stones were buried under- ground for 545 years, they had became gradually neglected. Nowdays due to the unearthing of part of the carved stones, the author investigated the evol- vment, the form and the contents of the stone inscri- ption so as to reveal the original feature of the stone classic.