东汉魏伯阳的《参同契》是世界上最古老的一本炼丹书,曾受到了中外学者的注意,并被译为英文。化学教科书也常提到此书,如涅克拉索夫的《普通化学激程》和戴安邦等的《无机化学教程》中都提到了它。我国古代炼丹家还把这本书推崇为“丹经之祖”,从而足见它对后来的炼丹术影响之大。现代的化学史工作者也重视这本著作,近年来有些学者对它作了专题论述。但对它的内容至今尚未完全搞清楚,学者们的意 Eastern Han Dynasty Wei Boyang’s “contract deeds” is the world’s oldest alchemical book, has been the Chinese and foreign scholars attention, and was translated into English. Chemistry textbooks often mention this book, as mentioned in Nekrasov’s “Ordinary Chemistry” and in “Inorganic Chemistry” by Dai Anbang. The ancient alchemy in our country also praised this book as “the ancestor of the Ancestry”, which shows its great influence on later alchemy. Modern chemical history workers also attach importance to this book, in recent years some scholars made a thematic discussion on it. However, the content of it has not been fully understood yet, the scholars’ intention