Huangfu Mi (215–282), courtesy name Shi'an (), was a Chinese physician, essayist, historian, poet, and writer who lived through the late Eastern Han dynasty,
Three Kingdoms
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period and early
Western Jin dynasty
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Places
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. He was born in a poor farming family in present-day Sanli village,
Chaona
Chaona is a town of Lingtai County, Pingliang, Gansu, China. The town was historically known as Dongchaona () and Anding Chaona (). It is the birthplace of Huangfu Mi. During the Western Wei
Wei (), known in historiography as the Western Wei ( ...
,
Pingliang
Pingliang () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Gansu province, China, bordering Shaanxi province to the south and east and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to the north. The city was established in 376 AD. It has a residential population of 2 ...
, despite being a great-grandson of the famous general
Huangfu Song
Huangfu Song pronounced in Mandarin (died April 195), courtesy name Yizhen, was a military general who lived during the Eastern Han dynasty of China. He is best known for helping to suppress the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Liang Province Rebe ...
, via Song's son Huangfu Shuxian.
Notable works
Between 256 and 260, toward the end of the state of
acupuncture
Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine and a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are inserted into the body. Acupuncture is a pseudoscience; the theories and practices of TCM are not based on scientif ...
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
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, and it proved to be one of the most influential.''Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion'', 1987 Huangfu Mi also compiled ten books in a series called ''Records of Emperors and Kings'' (). He was also the coauthor of
Biographies of Exemplary Women
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pinyin
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