Huangfu Mi
Chinese physician and historian, compiler of an acupuncture classic
- Lived
- c. 215–282 CE
- Era
- Late Eastern Han to Western Jin
- Medical work
- Zhenjiu jiayi jing (Systematic Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion)
- History
- Diwang shiji (Records of Emperors and Kings)
- Also wrote
- Gaoshi zhuan (Biographies of Eminent Gentlemen)
The 3rd-century scholar and physician whose writings include an early telling of the Qigong flying-cart story, with Qigong as a person.
What is Huangfu Mi known for?
Huangfu Mi (c. 215–282) was a Chinese scholar who lived through the end of the Han dynasty, the Three Kingdoms period and the start of the Western Jin. He repeatedly declined official posts and spent his life writing, despite long illness in later years.
His best-known work is the Zhenjiu jiayi jing, compiled around 256 to 260, which organized earlier acupuncture texts into a systematic classic still studied in traditional Chinese medicine. He also compiled the Diwang shiji, a history of rulers from mythical times, and collections of biographies.
An early telling of the Qigong flying-cart story is attributed to him. In that version Qigong is treated as a person rather than a nation of craftsmen, as in Zhang Hua's later Bowuzhi. The attribution comes through later quotation, and the details differ between sources.
An early version of the Qigong flying-cart story is attributed to him.
Mentioned on these pages
- Rabbit holeThe Qigong (Jigong) flying cart
Sources
- Wikipedia, 'Huangfu Mi'Reference
- ChinaCulture.org, 'The First Systematic Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion: Zhen Jiu Jia Yi Jing'Reference
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