Qian Chaochen (1936-2022), a native of Yutian County, Hebei Province, is a well-known expert in traditional Chinese medicine philology, a Chinese medicine exegete, a professor and doctoral supervisor of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, and an expert enjoying special allowances from the State Council.
Professor Qian Chaochen was born into a family of teachers, and his parents were well-known experts in traditional Chinese culture and had a rich collection of books. He has been influenced by traditional Chinese culture since he was a child, and his foundation in ancient literature is extremely solid.
In 1961, he graduated from the Chinese Department of Beijing Normal University and was admitted as a master's student of the famous exegete Lu Zongda, specializing in the study of exegesis. After graduation, Qian Chaochen successively worked at Beijing Correspondence College and Qinghai Provincial Education Bureau, and slowly grew into a well-known young scholar of exegesis in China.
To learn Chinese medicine, you must learn the classics of Chinese medicine. However, classic works such as "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", and "Compendium of Materia Medica", including the famous works of the past dynasties, are all written in ancient Chinese, and there are certain differences in the ancient texts of various dynasties. For modern people, how to accurately understand these classic works written in ancient Chinese is extremely important, after all, the difference between one word is thousands of miles.
Therefore, various TCM schools attach great importance to experts in ancient literature, and at the same time, there is a great shortage of such talents. As a well-known young scholar of exegesis in China, Qian Chaochen has been favored by major Chinese medicine schools. In the end, he chose Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (now Beijing University of Chinese Medicine).
In 1972, Qian Chaochen was transferred to Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine to teach ancient medical literature. Although Qian Chaochen is not from traditional Chinese medicine, his solid and unique paleographic background has played a great role.
Professor Qian adheres to the academic method of "examining the scriptures with words and examining words with scriptures", and is thoughtful about each research topic, grasping the main line, and then tracing the roots. He sorted out the relevant research of the past dynasties one by one, sorted out the historical context, and conducted in-depth excavation. Moreover, he never blindly follows the research results of his predecessors, but re-examines them from a different standpoint and has the courage to innovate.
He used the methods of traditional linguistics to study the classics of traditional Chinese medicine, corrected many false words and wrong interpretations in the process of inheritance of works such as "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", "Jin Kui Yaolu" and "Compendium of Materia Medica", and became an expert in the study of Chinese medicine classics, especially in the research of "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", "Huangdi Neijing" and "Compendium of Materia Medica", etc., which led to a new pattern in the field of ancient Chinese medicine research and reached a new realm.
In addition to the heavy teaching and scientific research tasks, Professor Qian Chaochen insisted on using his spare time and holidays to write, writing until late at night every day, and spent 6 years to complete a professional masterpiece: "Research on the Yellow Emperor's Neijing Taisu".
The book won the third prize of Beijing Science Progress Award that year, and was also included in the "Chinese Traditional Culture Research Series", which was the first time that a work on traditional Chinese medicine was included in the series.
In the process of long-term research on ancient Chinese medicine, Professor Qian Chaochen has also formed his own concept of health preservation. He put forward the health recipe of "basic vegetarian, modest, 10,000 steps a day, and no anger", which he insisted on practicing and received very good health effects.
In addition, he also interpreted the "Dongpo Health Collection" written by Wang Ruxi in the Ming Dynasty.
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