---
license: other
license_name: proprietary-commercial
language:
- zh
pretty_name: Classical Chinese Medicine Canon (中医经典文本)
task_categories:
- text-generation
- text-retrieval
tags:
- chinese-medicine
- traditional-chinese-medicine
- tcm
- 中医
- 中医药
- 中醫
- herbal-medicine
- materia-medica
- classical-chinese
- medical
- 古籍
- public-domain
size_categories:
- n<1K
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: classical-tcm-canon.parquet
---

# Classical Chinese Medicine Canon — 中医经典文本数据集 (v1)

A curated **Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)** text dataset: clean, full-text
digitizations of the foundational **Chinese medicine** canon — the 内经 (Inner Canon),
难经, 伤寒论 (Treatise on Cold Damage), 金匮要略, and 温病 (warm-disease) classics —
assembled from public-domain source works. Useful for LLM training, RAG, and search
over classical Chinese medicine / 中医药 literature.

## Summary
- **115 distinct works**, **9,401,166 Chinese characters** (~9.40M)
- Source: pre-modern works whose authors died before 1912 (China copyright = life + 50y)
- **Zero OCR** — every record is extracted directly from a text-format source, not a scan
- Held back (not in this release): 10 single-source works pending second-source
  cross-validation (see `canon_v1_hold.jsonl`)

## Provenance & rights
Each record is a faithful transcription of a public-domain classical work. The underlying
texts are out of copyright; the digital transcription carries no new copyright (faithful
reproduction of a PD text). Rights basis per record is recorded in `rights.basis`, backed
by an author death-year ledger (`../rights_ledger.txt`). Editions containing a modern
annotator's copyrighted commentary were **excluded** (see Quality control).

## Table of contents
| work family | works | chars |
|---|---|---|
| 伤寒论 | 57 | 4.58M |
| 黄帝内经素问 | 16 | 1.74M |
| 金匮要略 | 13 | 1.08M |
| 黄帝内经 | 6 | 0.54M |
| 黄帝内经灵枢 | 3 | 0.33M |
| 黄帝内经太素 | 1 | 0.33M |
| 温热/温疫 | 8 | 0.32M |
| 难经 | 6 | 0.22M |
| 温热经纬 | 1 | 0.11M |
| 温病条辨 | 1 | 0.10M |
| 黄帝明堂 | 1 | 0.02M |
| 温病(其他) | 1 | 0.01M |
| 其他经典 | 1 | 0.01M |

## Schema (one JSON object per line)
| field | meaning |
|---|---|
| `id` | stable record id |
| `work_family` | canonical work the text belongs to (e.g. 伤寒论) |
| `title` | edition/commentary title |
| `source_format` | doc / chm / txt — original format in the source archive |
| `extraction_method` | TEXT_EXTRACT (no OCR) |
| `edition_type` | scan_original / modern_collated |
| `rights` | {status, basis} — PD basis (author/dynasty) |
| `source_meta` | parsed 书名/作者/朝代 where available |
| `char_count`, `cjk_ratio` | size / Chinese-character density |
| `validation` | how the text was cross-checked |
| `ship_tier` | A=validated, B=single-source clean-format |
| `text` | the clean full text |

## Quality control (pipeline)
1. **Source priority** — text-format twin preferred; the curated 中华医书集成 numbered
   series is treated as authoritative.
2. **Garbage gate** — mojibake extractions (common-Hanzi ratio < 4%) rejected.
3. **De-junking** — web-compilation ads/nav/pinyin/contact lines stripped; CJK de-spaced.
4. **繁简-normalized cross-validation** — copies of a work compared via OpenCC-normalized
   12-gram overlap; ≥0.85 = validated.
5. **Contamination exclusion** — editions weaving a modern annotator's copyrighted
   commentary into the PD base text are removed (e.g. 唐步祺 闡釋 of 伤寒恒论).
6. **External spot-check** — flagship works verified against Wikisource PD reference.

Validation mix (release): {'single_source': 61, 'validated_multisource': 53, 'validated_minor_variance': 1}

## Known limitations
- Punctuation/collation follows each source edition (modern editors' 标点).
- 异体字 variants (e.g. 脏/藏, 腑/府) appear as in the source.
- 10 single-source .chm works are held for v1.1 pending an independent second
  source (their scanned-PDF twins will be OCR'd in Phase 2 to cross-validate).