Discussion on MA Shi's Critical Inheritance and Innovative Development of WANG Bing's Annotations in Suwen Zhuzheng Fa-wei
[Objective]To summarize the characteristics of MA Shi's refutations of WANG Bing's annotations in Suwen Zhuzheng Fawei(Commentaries and Discussions on Suwen of Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon),and analyze the relationship between MA's annotations and WANG's annotations.[Methods]After consulting the annotations of MA Shi refuting WANG Bing in Suwen Zhuzheng Fawei,this paper analyzes MA Shi's critical views on WANG's annotations,compares the different understandings of MA Shi and WANG Bing on scriptures,and summarizes the characteristics of MA's annotations from three aspects:expression of terms,method of interpreting scriptures and elucidation of medical theory.Finally it sums up the relationship between MA's annotations and WANG's annotations.[Results]When refuting WANG's annotations,MA Shi often used three types of words to express different degrees of refutation on WANG's annotations,which contained"opposed""superficial"and"lacking".The methods of interpreting scriptures can be summarized into five kinds of citation analysis and four levels of literary analysis,and the scriptures of Suwen and Lingshu were mostly cited as evidence.In the elucidation of medical theory,MA's annotations differed from WANG's in the understanding of theoretical scope,the analysis of theoretical connotation and the determination of acupoint position.[Conclusion]MA Shi used the more comprehensive interpretation methods,interpreted the scriptures from the broader theoretical level and refuted WANG's annotations,which not only formed a systematic way of interpreting the scriptures,but also inspired more possibilities of the meaning of the scriptures.MA's annotations had both critical inheritance and innovative development to WANG's annotations,which promoted the study of Suwen.
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