44 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
HE J Hua yiian (the present Yao chou, Si an fu, Shensi) and — 
retired into seclusion on the —& & lj Z"ai po shan. He was — 
induced circa A. D. 630 to leave his mountain hermitage for the — 
court of Emperor T‘ai Tsung, where he performed many miracles, — 
Sun Sz’ mo is the author of numerous medical treatises. See alph. — 
list 31, 707, 934—937. He is one of the celebrated doctors of — 
China and is worshipped in the state temples among the divinities _ 
of the healing art. He is styled also #% IX J. Sun chen jen. 
10. The #8 P: Ax ¥X Yao sing pen ts‘ao, on the medical virtues — 
of drugs, in tour books, by BR HE Chen Kuan, a native of Hii chou — 
(Honan), end of the 6th and first half of the 7th century. He 
died under the reign of ‘Iai tsung (A. D. 627—50) at the age of | 
120 years. See his biography in the T‘ang shu 252. He also 
wrote a treatise with the title 33 PE i Fas sing lun and other — 
medical works. 
11. The Be Ax FX Tang Pen ts‘ao, or Materia medica of the — 
T‘ang dynasty. ‘The Emperor Kao tsung issued about A. D.650 — 
a mandate for the revision and completion of the Shen nung Pen — 
ts‘ao and 7*ao yin hii’s commentaries and additions (see above 7). 
This was undertaken by a commission under the superintendence 
of Zs fh Li tsi,a high officer. The new work comprised seven books 
and was generally styled je ZY At Ax Bi the Tang Pen ts‘ao of 
Ying hung, the latter tae a title of Li tsi. A few years later 
fk Zs Su Kung, another high official, was appointed to revise 
and to complete it once more. 3 # 4 & Chang Sun nu ki | 
and 22 others were associated with him in the work. They added 
114 new objects, and classed the whole under the heads of Minerals, 
Man, Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects, Fishes, Cereals, Vegetables, 
Fruits, Trees, Herbs, and natural objects not employed in medi- 
eine. This was called the Be 3 Ax FE T’ang Sin pen ts‘ao or 
New Pen ts‘ao of the T‘ang. The descriptive part of it extended 
to 20 books, with one book for the index. To this were added 
sence 
13 The T-ai po shan, where one of the haunted grottoes of the Taoists is sat, 
lies in the south-western corner of the prefecture of Si an fu. 
