The earliest known works to refer to fangzhongshu are books on the subject from the Western Han dynasty, written on silk and on bamboo strips, which were unearthed at the Mawangdui tombs at Changsha in Hunan Province. They include Shi Wen (" Ten Questions "), He Yin Yang (" Union of Yin and Yang") and Tianxia Zhi Dao Tan (" On the Greatest Art Under Heaven ").
目前所知最早談及房中術的著述是在湖南長沙馬王堆出土的西漢帛書及竹簡書，如《十問》、《合陰陽》、《天下至道談》… … 等等有關房中之術的書。