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MENTAL MODEL · M0303

The Ten Questions Song

The Ten Questions Song
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

A standardized diagnostic checklist summarized by Zhang Jingyue in the Ming Dynasty: 'One asks about chills and fever, two about sweat, three about head and body, four about stool and urine...' covering key physiological indicators of the human body.

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Pre-flight checklist. Beginners are most prone to missing diagnoses. Before your intuition forms, enforce a scan of these ten questions to ensure the data collected is structured and exhaustive (MECE).

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The diagnostic sequence summarized by Zhang Jingyue in the Ming Dynasty in 'Jingyue Quanshu': 'One asks about chills and fever, two about sweat, three about head and body, four about stool and urine, five about diet and six about chest and abdomen, seven about deafness and eight about thirst all should be distinguished, nine from pulse and complexion to examine yin and yang, ten from odor and spirit to see clearly.' The mechanism is to use a fixed checklist to force coverage of key physiological dimensions, avoiding omissions due to intuition, and making information collection structured and MECE.

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