Mingtang chart: acupuncture wall chart. The title Yuan - slip Shou wrote, Ming - Wu Kun school, Qing - Wei Yulin re-engraved, *** 4 woodblock engraved and printed wall charts. Existing Qianlong forty-seventh year engraving.
Today, as long as we walk into the Chinese medicine hospital or acupuncture and massage clinic, most of the human body can see a few meridian map hanging on the wall, these human meridian acupuncture point map divided into the front, back, side, etc., and then colorful to show that the human body's odd meridian and countless acupuncture points, these meridian acupuncture points are not found today, but our ancestors in thousands of years of medical experiments summed up. According to Chinese medicine, "meridians" are the paths through which the body's blood and qi run. "Meridian" is the path (big road) trunk; "Luo" is the network (small road) branch; acupuncture points are meridians and internal organs on the surface of the body to reflect the site. "Acupuncture" is the hole, "position" is the part, meridians and acupoints throughout the human body, connecting internal organs, external limbs, running blood, fluid, so that the human body becomes a unified whole, these parts of the human body and the trunk with a map is called the "Mingtang map".