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Huangfu Mi (c. 215 – 282[1]),courtesy nameShi'an (Chinese:士安), was a Chinese physician, essayist, historian, poet, and writer who lived through the lateEastern Han dynasty,Three Kingdoms period and earlyWestern Jin dynasty. He was born in a poor farming family in present-day Sanli village,Chaona,Pingliang,[2] despite being a great-grandson of the famous Eastern Han generalHuangfu Song, via Song's son Huangfu Shuxian.[3]
Between 256 and 260, toward the end of the state ofCao Wei, he compiled theCanon 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 onacupuncture written in earlier periods. This book in 12 volumes further divided into 128 chapters was one of the earliest systematic works on acupuncture andmoxibustion, and it proved to be one of the most influential.[4]
Huangfu Mi also compiled ten books in a series calledRecords of Emperors and Kings (Chinese:帝王世紀;pinyin:Dìwáng shìjì). He was also the coauthor ofBiographies of Exemplary Women (Chinese: 列女傳;pinyin:Liènǚ Zhuàn) and the author ofBiographies of Exemplary Gentlemen (Chinese:高士傳;pinyin:Gāoshì Zhuàn).
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