鍼金銅人의 製作에 대한 考察

Abstract

The Chimgeumdongin(鍼金銅人) is a Acupuncture Bronze Man that casted by Choe Cheonyak(崔天若) the meister and directed by O Jicheol(吳志哲) the royal chief acupuncture doctor of Chosen dynasty(朝鮮) in 1741. Choe Cheonyak casted the Chimgeumdongin at least 12 parts. After welding the parts, engrave the names of acupuncture point on it. It is suggested that there maybe one or more Wooden Acupuncture Man that remedy mistakes for a longtime before 1741. This became a prototype of Chimgeumdongin. The contents of Chimgeumdongin’s acupuncture points are equal to <Buzhutongrenjing : 補註銅人經> which was recited by royal acupuncture doctors for hundreds years. Chimgeumdongin rigorously apply the bone proportional unit measurement of <the chapter on Measurement of the bone, chapter 14 of the Lingshu : 靈樞.骨度篇>. and the range of error was between 0.01cm~1.67cm. Specially, they made it`s head 1.34 times bigger, by long experience. Accoding to <Seungjeongwonilgi : 承政院日記>, the Chimgeumdongin was used for training inexperienced royal acupuncture doctors. As shown above, the Chimgeumdongin could be represents standard acupuncture technology of Chosen dynasty.