ABSTRACT
One point remains, nevertheless. Since the ancient, medieval and traditional Chinese thought in terms of t\VO circulations rather than one, what organ did they take as responsible for the pun1ping of the chhi? There is a straightforward ans\ver, the lungs. Sometimes this appears implicitly, sometin1es explicitly. For example, Chhi Po says in one place: 'The heart (in the body) is like the monarch (in the State), fount of all clarity and brightness; the lungs are like the prime minister, from wholn all control proceeds. 'f Or again: 'All the blood pertains (shu7 ) to the heart; all the chhi pertains to the lungs. 'g But Chang Chieh-Pin wrote: 'The (Yin) chhi within the
b· NCSW/WMC, ch. 48, (p. 430). 'To drum' (ku) or 'dru111 and blo\v' (ku chhui) ,,'ere standard classical verb forms for the operation of bello\vs, \vhether for metallurgical or other purposes (cL Needham (32), p. 3, and SCC, Vol. 4, pt. 2, p. 139), probably because the most ancient types of bello\ys \vere rather like drums (cf. Forbes (7), p. 578).
