李时珍从 15 5 2年开始撰写本草纲目 ,历时卅年 ,在15 78年终于编成。而后他又经过 10余年的修改 ,得到南京胡承龙之助 ,于 15 90年在南京开始刊刻。因当时雕板十分艰难 ,加之这部巨著图文量大 ,直到他逝世后三年方始在南京首次出版。这就是人们常说的“金陵版”和“金陵本”。 Li Shizhen began compiling the Compendium of Chinese Materia Medica in 1955, which lasted for one year and was finally compiled in 1578. Afterwards, after more than 10 years of revision, he was helped by Hu Chenglong of Nanjing and began publication in Nanjing in 1950. Because the carving was very difficult at the time, combined with the huge volume of this huge work, it was first published in Nanjing three years after his death. This is what people often say “Jinling Edition” and “Jinling Ben.”