北宋館閣官、儒臣與校正醫書局

This paper explores the establishment, makeup, and works produced by the Jiaozheng yishu ju (校正醫書局 Bureau for the Revision of Medical Classics) in the Northern Song dynasty, which edited, revised and compiled eleven medical classics. Past research has suggested that medical officials played an active and crucial role in editing, revising and compiling these important medical classics. However, in this paper Ⅰ wish to put forward a different opinion: (1) The establishment of the Bureau was proposed by Han Qi 韓琦 during the reign of Emperor Renzong 仁宗. Han Qi was concerned about the health of civilians and soldiers in military areas near the border where there was a lack of medical resources, and believed that the government should supply them with reliable medical texts to consult; (2) The officials of the Bureau can be divided into three groups: Guange guan (館閣官 officials of the Institutes and Archives), ruchen (儒臣 literati officials) and yiguan (醫官 medical officials). The officials of the Institutes and Archives and the literati officials were of a higher status than the medical officials, and in fact played a more important role than them in compiling and maintaining the medical classics; (3) When working on texts, the officials of the Institutes and Archives and the literati officials followed their own standards and methods. These same rules and methods were applied in the handling of the medical classics.