| title | Chongguang Buzhu Huangdi Neijing Suwen |
| or | Revised Annotations on the Suwen of Huangdi Neijing |
| alias | Cizhu Huangdi Neijing Suwen, Huangdineijingsuwen, Suwen, Plain Questions |
Chongguang Buzhu Huangdi Neijing Suwen, abbreviated as Suwen, also known as Huangdi Neijing Suwen and Cizhu Huangdi Neijing Suwen, was annotated by Wang Bing in the first year of Baoying (762) during the Tang Dynasty, containing many outstanding insights.
Suwen was reorganized, reordered, and annotated by Wang Bing based on the Huangdi Neijing-Suwen section. The original Suwen consisted of nine volumes and 81 chapters. From the Han to the Tang Dynasty, it underwent numerous revisions and transcriptions, and by the Tang Dynasty, it had become "overlapping in chapters, inconsistent in sequence, with disconnected meanings, making it difficult to implement and comprehend." (Wang BingChongguang Buzhu Huangdi Neijing Suwen?Preface Mainland People's Medical Publishing House, 1963). Wang thus used the Quan Yuan-qiNeijing Xunjie from the Southern Dynasties as a basis to reorder and annotate Suwen, hence the term "secondary annotation."
Wang supplemented the text with seven major treatises, including the Tianyuanji Da Lun, from his teacher's old collection, reordering them into 24 volumes. He sought out classical theories to fill in gaps where the text was fragmented or disconnected in meaning, and clarified chapters where the content was unclear or incomplete. After twelve years of work, he completed this monumental work in the first year of Baoying (762) during the Tang Dynasty. Wang was meticulous in his revisions, stating, "All added characters are written in red to distinguish between ancient and modern texts, ensuring no confusion between them" (Wang BingChongguang Buzhu Huangdi Neijing Suwen?Preface, P7, Mainland People's Medical Publishing House, 1963, 1st edition). In his annotations, he extensively referenced various ancient texts to provide detailed explanations of the original content.
Later, the Song Dynasty's Bureau for Revising Medical Texts, led by Lin Dang, conducted a collation of the book in the second year of Jiayou (1057). Subsequent editions, whether divided or combined, were all based on this version.Suwen has been widely circulated and repeatedly published. A relatively complete and well-preserved edition is the 1550 Wuling Gu Congde reprint of the Song Dynasty edition. In 1956 and 1963, the Mainland People's Medical Publishing House published photolithographic editions based on the Gu Congde edition.
