• The Journal of Korean Medical History
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.29-47
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• 2012

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 which was recited by royal acupuncture doctors for hundreds years. Chimgeumdongin rigorously apply the bone proportional unit measurement of . 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 , the Chimgeumdongin was used for training inexperienced royal acupuncture doctors. As shown above, the Chimgeumdongin could be represents standard acupuncture technology of Chosen dynasty.

• Korean Journal of Heritage: History & Science
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.124-139
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• 2013

Choi Cheon-yak(about 1684~1755) is an artist who left the various artistic works such as sculptures of royal tombs, architectures. In addition, he was not only a skilled caster but also an able artisan carving jade in the early Joseon Dynasty period. Starting from making royal seals of King Suk-jong, he had made more than about 40 Royal seals until 1755. Choi Cheon-yak was well known as a skilled jade craftsman. Another of his great abilities was to carve subjects into ideal figures. In virtue of his greater abilities, he could take part in the process of constructing Royal tombs and sculpting the stone statues of military officials' which were erected at aristocrats' tombs. With these accumulated skills, when he was in charge of designing the folding screen stones for King In-jo's Jang Neong, he could even replace 12 animals system and clouds with peonies and lotus. Among his various abilities, his skill in carving a sculpture can stand comparison with any other contemporaries. His sculpture skill was at its zenith in 1752, the stone statues of military officials' at the Ui soseson's tomb count his showpiece that describes a model at the age of his late teens and is a realistic and portrayal sculpture, which met the royal family's dignity. In the same year, the stone statues of military officials' constructed by Choi Cheon-yak was elected in front of the Jo Hyen-myeong's tomb(1690~1752). This masterpiece referred to the armor of those of King Gong-min Neong and newly added a helmet and the patterns of a tortoise shell. These patterns of a tortoise shell were passed down to Park Moon-su's tomb in 1756 and Queen Jeong-sung's Hong Neung by his colleagues : Kim Ha-jeong and Byeon Yi-jin etc. He was one of the greatest sculptors in the $18^{th}$ century. People in Joseon praised him highly for his imaginative work from an amorphous object. Especially, these stone statues of military at Jo Hyeonmyeong's tomb shows the proofs of his supreme artwork.