Judging The Lower Limit Of Formation Time Of Suwen By The History Of Chinese Language

Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon Suwen which played a very important role in the traditional Chinese medical history,was regarded as the earilist extant documents whose theory was systemic and contents were whole.About its formation time, many people have researched from different aspects,but until today, there is no verdict. However,about its upper limit of formation time, unanimous viewpoints are Han Dynasty or after Han Dynasty.But to this day,no one has researched its lower limit of formation time specially.The article took Suwen,which was systemized by Wang Bing who was in Tang Dynasty and explained by Lin Yi who was in Song Dynasty,as the research object.We try to judge the lower limit of the formation time from the vocabulary and grammar. At last,We conclude that the time of lower limit is the latter Han Danysty.