RESUMO
Yi ding jie (Stepping to the Peak of Medicine) was written by Huang Yuanying, a Hakka physician of Changting, Fujian at the turn of the Qing Dynasty and Republican period. Being a successful candidate of the imperial exam at the provincial level in the 20th year of Guangxu reign (1894) of the Qing Dynasty, he still practise as a physician. He had been a teacher of the Jiangxi Provincial Medical School and a supervisor of the Tingjun Middle School. He was conversant with the use of classical prescriptions, paid high attention to pulse taking. His work Yi ding jie is now collected in the Museum of Hakka Family Tree in Shanghang County, which was written in the form of traditional Chinese chapters of novel, bearing many case records, elaborating medical theory, reflecting from an aspect the medical level of Hakka medicine of that time, enlightening the inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine and its spreading for modern people.
