Chinese Medicine Academic Thought Research Of Ming And Qing Dynasties Literary Work

In ancient Chinese society, Traditional Chinese medical practitioner and medicine played an important role in Chinese culture from a social perspective rather than a scientific one. Since Chinese literature always reflected the social background and eating culture of its society, it is common to find traces of traditional Chinese medicine ideology through to work of medical literature. This not only documented the traditional medical practices, but also recorded the progression of medical theory and limitation of knowledge migration.Since the Sung Dynasty, mass movement of population and economic center shifted southward, which initiated migration of literary and medical development southward as well. As the migration took place, the traditional medical theory from the north merged with southern medical teachings that gradually developed into geographical disparity in medical ideology between the north and south.In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the medical science advanced into of diagnostic methods, medical record, medical documentation and teaching. The most important development is the formation of warm pathogen disease current, which supported the Chinese medical theory from "Huangdi Neijing " and "Shang Han Lun". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, herbal medicinal science had its biggest breakthrough, which is well documented in the literature of this time. The development was further enhanced by the popularity of literature and novel and advancement of publishing technology that contributed to the rapid and wide spread of medical or literary publications.This journal revolves around the literary works of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In this period, many novels contain medical ideology and medicinal knowledge, such as "Romance of the West Chamber", "Journey to the West ", "Jin Ping Mei", "The Peony Pavilion ", "Sanyan", "Liaozhai Zhiyi ", "Tsao Mu Zhuan", "Ye Shou Pu Yan", "Ru Lin Wai Shi ", " Jing Hua Yuan", "Lao Tsan Yu Zhi", "Hung Lou Meng", etc. These novels depicted some medical practices in its content intentionally or unintentionally and reflected the medical development status of its time. This journal will analyze if these novels have any impact on the development of Chinese medical ideology. Through current Taiwan analysis, from scholars or literary perspective to analyze the philosophical ideology of the literary works, the implication of the novels, the characters of each medical publications or the establishment of the literary work as historic event to depict the medical environment during this historic period. Conversely, China's perspective is mainly from entertainment point of view to discuss the medical depiction of individual work. This journal analyzes from multi-faceted perspective through a larger scope and dissecting the medical journal into fundamental of Chinese medical ideology, clinical studies, herbal medicinal, or other medical practices reflect the medical ideology, practices and practitioner's image.This journal looks at literary work from Ming and Qing Dynasties, not only as material of evidence to aid the understanding of traditional Chinese medicine's ideology, but also utilize the literary work's identification of medical and herbal terminology through application to identify the literary work's time of completion and author's background. Furthermore, through the literary work's depiction on medical practices and medicine, it is found that the certain medicine formulation was already applied far earlier than the publication of medical journals. From this basis, the medical ideology during Ming and Qing Dynasties is clearly portrayed through its literary work and further studies dissecting into the details of this topic should be explored.