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Mi Huangfu
215–282
A scholar-physician from third-century China, this writer is best remembered for linking careful study with practical medicine. His work helped preserve earlier learning and shaped how later generations understood acupuncture and classical history.
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高士傳
by Mi Huangfu
About the author
Born around 215 in Chaona in present-day Gansu or Ningxia, Huangfu Mi lived through the turbulent years between the late Han world and the Western Jin dynasty. He became known as a physician, essayist, historian, poet, and scholar, building a reputation not through high office but through study and writing.
He is especially associated with the Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing (Systematic Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion), an influential early text that organized medical knowledge about acupuncture. He also wrote on history and biography, including works that helped preserve accounts of notable figures from earlier periods.
Remembered as both a literary man and a medical thinker, Huangfu Mi stands out for the breadth of his interests. His legacy survives because he gathered, arranged, and passed on knowledge that might otherwise have been lost.