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Tang Shenwei
Tang Shenwei (; c.1056-1093), courtesy name Shenyuan (), was a Chinese physician of the Song Dynasty. He compiled an influential pharmacopoeia, ''Zhenglei bencao'' (證類本草). Career Tang Shenwei was born in a family of professional physicians from Jinyuan (晉原; in today's Chongzhou, Sichuan). During the Yuanyou era (元祐; 1086–1094) of Emperor Zhezong's reign, he became a disciple of and moved to Huayang near Chengdu. ''Zhenglei bencao'' Tang spent several years on studying books on pharmaceuticals to create his own compendium. He merged the entirety of some existing works and added information researched on his own to the compilation. The book was ready about 1082–1083. Its full title, ''Jingshi zhenglei beiji bencao'' ( zh, t=經史證類備急本草, s=经史证类备急本草, first=t) translates as "Ready-to-use pharmacopoeia, classified as collected from the Classics and historiographical books". The compendium encompassed 1,748 different drugs (476 of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tang (surname)
Tang is a pinyin romanization of various Chinese surnames. Background Chinese surnames commonly romanized as "Tang" include Táng (唐) and Tāng (湯/汤). Tang is also occasionally used to romanize Deng (鄧/邓, Pinyin: Dèng) and Teng (滕, Pinyin: Téng), especially for persons of Hong Kong origin, based on Cantonese pronunciation. Tang can also be used to romanize the surname Zeng/ Tsang (曾, Pinyin: Zēng), based on Vietnamese pronunciation. In 2019, Táng was the 25th most common surname in Mainland China. According to a 2013 study, it was the 25th most-common name, shared by 9,170,000 people or 0.690% of the population, with the province with the most being Hunan. People Notable people with their surname commonly romanized as Tang include: Western name order People in this section have Wikipedia articles with their given name first. * Andrew Tang (born 1999), American chess grandmaster * Audrey Tang (born 1981), Taiwanese free-software programmer * Chen Tang, Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |