Wuwei Handai yijian

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Wuwei Handai yijian ( Chinese  武威 漢代 醫 簡  / 武威 汉代 医 简 , English Wuwei Medical Bamboo Slips of the Han Dynasty  - "Medical texts on bamboo and wooden tablets from the Han grave in Wuwei") is an important archaeological find of bamboo and wooden tablets from the Han dynasty , which were excavated from graves in Hantanpo (旱 滩 坡), Wuwei , Gansu Province, China, in1972.

The text finds of 92 bamboo and wooden tablets contain 36 recipes and over 100 names of ingredients. They date from the early days of the Eastern Han Dynasty .

This means that they can be dated 150 years earlier than Zhang Zhongjing's (150–219) book Shanghan zabing lun ( Treatise on Cold Caused Fevers and Various Illnesses ), for the further investigation of which it provides important material.

literature

  • Gansu sheng bowuguan et al. (Ed.): Wuwei Handai yijian. Wenwu chubanshe, 1975
  • Zhang Yanchang and Zhu Jianping: Wuwei Handai yijian yanjiu. Beijing: 1996

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