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类经
📅 明👤 Zhang Jingyue
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Original (Classical Chinese)
类者，分其类聚而分之。
Pinyin
Lèi zhě, fēn qí lèi jù ér fēn zhī.
English Translation
The Inner Classic is the fountainhead of medicine, but its text is terse and abstruse, hard for students to glimpse. Now I sort it by category and string it into order, so that by seeking the meaning through categories its subtleties all appear and the purport of the Inner Classic becomes clear.
📝 Commentary
Zhang Jingyue's monumental Ming reclassification of the Inner Classic. This explains his method of sorting the text into categories so that its abstruse meaning becomes accessible.