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33. The Ax BS fy FE Fi HE Pen ts‘ao yen i pu i, a revision 
and amplification of No. 27, by Je 92 H Chu Chen heng, a cele- 
brated physician and Taoist scholar, who lived in the second half 
of the 14th century. Literary appellation #€ fs Yen siu, but he 
is more generally known under the name of J} 7} Tan ki. He 
was a native of Yi wu (Kin hua fu in Chekiang). His biography 
is given in the Yiian shi, 189. For his other medical treatises 
see alph. list 217, 348, 369, 788. 
34. The Ax Bi #E FE Pen ts‘av fa hui, in 3 books, by #S # fiff 
Sii Yen shun. Literary appellation FA jgR Yung ch‘eng. He was 
a pupil of Chu Chen heng (see 33). 
35. THE ${ FE ZX Hi KIU HUANG PEN TS‘AO. 
This is a treatise on the plants fit for supporting life in time of 
scarcity by J] ge 3 Chou ting wang (literary appellation Je #i§ 
Chu siao; pseudonym ji§ 3% Ch‘eny chai), an Imperial Prince, the 
fifth son of the first Ming Emperor Hung Wu, who reigned A. D. 
1368—1398. See Ming shi 116, Biographies of the Imperial 
princes. Chou ting wang is noticed there as the author of the 
above work. But the author of the Pen ts‘ao kang mu attributes. 
the authorship to Jj 3 JE Chou hien wang, who was a son of 
Chou ting wang. As the great Catalogue Sz’ k‘u ts‘ian shu 
explains, C. II. 8, this error arose from the circumstance that Chou 
ting wang’s name does not appear in the original edition. 
We learn from Chou ting wang’s biography that he dwelt for 
a long time, from 1382 to about 1400, in K‘ai feng fu (Honan), 
where his appanages were situated; and then removed to the 
province of Yiin nan. He died in 1425; his son Chou hien wang 
in 1439, 
Chou ting wang, who is also known as the author of several 
writings on medical subjects (see alph. list 642, 793), took a great 
interest in botany and made special study of the wild and cul- 
tivated plants suitable for food; his information on the subject 
having chiefly been derived from the experience of peasants and 
farmers. The original edition of the Kiu huang pen ts‘ao was 
first published in the beginning of the 15th century, in 2 books; a 
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