Discussion on the transcription and circulation of "Shouzhuo Sanctum" version of Qing nang mi jue (Secret Instructions of Sore and Abscess) based on the stone tablet inscriptions and contracts

Abstract

He Gaomin, the discoverer of the book Qing nang mi jue (Secret Instructions of Sore and Abscess) considered that this book was written by Fu Shan of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, which was first stored secretly by Zhang Shixue, and then transcribed by "Pan zi" , and further copied by Wang Dade in the First Year of Yongzheng Reign. According to the folk literature including inscriptions on stone tablet and contracts, combining with the dictations of Zhang's descendants, suggesting that Zhang's Family was a medical family for generations and Zhang Shixue was a doctor in Miaodao Town, Jiyuan County, Huaiqing Prefecture of Henan during the reigns of the Qianlong and Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. He might not be earlier than the secret collection of the book by Wang Dade, and nobody knows where Zhang got the book. Zhang's family fortunes declined in the late Qing Dynasty, and the version of Qing nang mi jue preserved secretly by Zhang Shixue spread to the market and obtained by Li Yinyuan, whose son Li Qu brought it into Shanxi, and was thus found by He Gaomin.