Abstract:
Yellow Emperor's Xia Ma Jing was approximately written in Han dynasty, which was the earliest intertextuality text with abundant illustrations and systematic phraseology-graphic. There was 41 illustrations in
Yellow Emperor's Xia Ma Jing, which can be broadly divided into three categories: the graphic with a three legged crow in the sun, the graphic with a toad and rabbit in the moon, and the graphic with the location of human's qi, year god and sun god. In terms of the location of phraseology-graphic, it turned out to be the combination of phraseology and graphics, including the intertextuality phenomena, such as graphics on the above and phraseology below, graphics on the left and phraseology on the right, along with graphics followed by phraseology. As for the inter-embracing of phraseology and graphic, there was intertextuality phenomena, like graphics based on phraseology, phraseology embodied with texts, phraseology beyond graphics, along with inter-correspondent phraseology and graphics. The intertextuality illustration of phraseology-graphics in
Yellow Emperor's Xia Ma Jing reflected the philosophic meaning of correspondence between nature and human as well as open body view of the communication and transmission among heaven, earth and human, which straightly and vividly manifested the phenomenon of traditional Chinese medicine with profound traditional cultural infiltration.
Yellow Emperor's Xia Ma Jing fully reflected that the awareness of applying phraseology-graphic in medical classics in Han dynasty was quite vivid, which was valuable and significant for the study of the history and characteristics of phraseology-graphic phenomena in ancient medical classics.