Abstract

Mr. Shang is a famous herbalist in contemporary China and he devoted his life to the research of herbal literatures. During his lifetime, he has compiled and published a total 19 herbal literatures, 33 works of herbal literature, 268 academic papers, and more than 20 million words of handwritten herbal transcripts. In the field of herbal literature research, he has achieved fruitful results that are highly recognized by the academic communities. The research results can be roughly summarized as four aspects: the establishment of a two-line research network of herbal formulae, the research and collection of lost herbal works, the collation of the survived ancient herbal works and the textual research of famous herbal works. Many of his research results on herbal literature have been included in the modern higher education professional textbooks, and his outstanding academic achievements have opened the door for later scholars, influencing many scholars both home and abroad.

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