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Written by Liang Tao Hong-jing, seven volumes. The original book has been lost, but the contents are still scattered in Jingshi Zhenglei Beiji Bencao. This book is compiled based on the contents of Shennong Bencao Jing and Mingyi Bielu, each with 365 categories, totaling 730 categories, divided into jade, grass, wood, fruit, and vegetables. The absence of six categories is also a major achievement in the development history of materia medica during this period. Bencao Jing Jizhu There are two kinds of fragments, one is the fragment unearthed from the Dunhuang Grottoes, and the other is the fragment unearthed from Turpan.

Only one remaining volume of the Dunhuang edition is known as the "Preface". The original volume is seventeen meters long and has writing on both sides. In 1908, the Japanese Kikuzuichao and Yoshikawa Koichiro were brought to Japan from Dunhuang when they were exploring Central Asia under the orders of Ryutani Mitsui. The front and back of this volume contain other literature. The back contains a 720-line preface belonging to Bencao Jing Jizhu, but the front volume is missing. According to the record in the last two lines of the text, "On September 11, the sixth year of Kaiyuan, Yuchi Lulin wrote a volume of materia medica in the capital. Chen Shi wrote a note." Luo Zhenyu believed that this text was different from the original calligraphy and thought it should be It is a work from the Six Dynasties period. This fragment was photocopied by Qunlian Publishing House in 1955.

The fragment unearthed in Turpan is a 28.5 x 27 cm fragment. On the scroll there are only the full texts of bird excrement and sky rat excrement, annotations on the second half of dolphin eggs, and the front text of mole (rat spring). It should be part of the veterinary medicine content in Bencao Jing Jizhu.

One of these two pieces is in Ryukoku University, Japan (one is said to be in the Museum of London, England), and the other is in the Prussian Academy in Germany.