The extant Jinguiyaolue(Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber)is less likely to originate directly from the section on miscellaneous diseases in the 16-volume Shanghanzabinglun(Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Miscellaneous Diseases)of ZHANG Zhong-jing which was compiled in the early third century.It was,in fact,compiled in the Northern Song dynasty.All the extant editions of Jin-guiyaolue,including Japanese editions,were derived from the five editions system compiled from the Yuan dynasty to the Ming dynasty,belongs to the large character version.The small character version of Wu Qian's transcript that was recently discovered in the Shanghai Library is different from the original system,and this is worthy of attention to.By comparison of Deng Zhen's version with Wu Qian's version,it was realized that the Northern Song government had not simply converted the large character version into the small character version,but revised it as large-scale for the second time.