Huangfu Mi

In this Chinese name, the family name is Huangfu.

Huangfu Mi
Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures; Huangfu Mi, Wellcome Collection L0039322
Traditional Chinese	皇甫謐
Simplified Chinese	皇甫谧
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Huángfǔ Mì Wade–Giles Huangfu Mi Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Wòhng-pou Maht Jyutping Wong4-pou2 Mat6 Southern Min Hokkien POJ Hông-hú Bi̍t Middle Chinese Middle Chinese Hwang-pjú Mjit Old Chinese Baxter–Sagart (2014) *ɢʷˤang-p(r)aʔ Mit

Huangfu Mi (215 – 282), courtesy name Shi'an (Chinese: 士安), was a Chinese physician, essayist, historian, poet, and writer who lived through the late Eastern Han dynasty, Three Kingdoms period and early Western Jin dynasty. He was born in a poor farming family in present-day Sanli village, Chaona, Pingliang, despite being a great-grandson of the famous general Huangfu Song, via Song's son Huangfu Shuxian.

Notable works

Between 256 and 260, toward the end of the state of Cao Wei, he compiled the Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (simplified Chinese: 针灸甲乙经; traditional Chinese: 針灸甲乙經; pinyin: Zhēnjiǔ jiǎyǐ jīng; Wade–Giles: Chen¹-chiu³ chia³-i³ ching¹), a collection of various texts on acupuncture written in earlier periods. This book in 12 volumes further divided into 128 chapters was one of the earliest systematic works on acupuncture and moxibustion, and it proved to be one of the most influential.

Huangfu Mi also compiled ten books in a series called Records of Emperors and Kings (Chinese: 帝王世紀; pinyin: Dìwáng shìjì). He was also the coauthor of Biographies of Exemplary Women (Chinese: 列女傳; pinyin: Liènǚ Zhuàn) and the author of Biographies of Exemplary Gentlemen (Chinese:高士傳; pinyin: Gāoshì Zhuàn).

See also

• Lists of people of the Three Kingdoms

External links

• Works by Mi Huangfu at Project Gutenberg