Huang-fu Mi (皇甫謐, 215-282 CE), a famous Chinese scholar and physician, was born in 215 (under the Eastern Han dynasty) in a poor farming family in what is now the Chinese province of Gansu. Between 256 and 260 CE, toward the end of the Cao Wei dynasty, he compiled the AB Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Pinyin: Zhēnjiŭ jiăyĭ jīng; Wade-Giles: Chen1-chiu3 chia3-i3 ching1; Chinese: 針灸甲乙經／针灸甲乙经), 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.¹ Huangfu Mi also compiled a book called Diwang shiji 帝王世紀 ("Chronological Records of Emperors and Kings"), only fragments of which have survived. He died in 282 under the Jin dynasty.

References

1. ^ Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, 1987