Huangfu Mi - Kouhohitsu

A Chinese physician. He wrote the 12 volumes of the oldest surviving medical text on acupuncture and moxibustion, the Acupuncture and Moxibustion Jia Yi Jing (also known as the Huangdi's Three Parts of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Jia Yi Jing and the Huangdi Jia Yi Jing, commonly known as the Jia Yi Jing), and established the foundations of acupuncture and moxibustion. His courtesy name was Shi'an, his childhood name was Jing, and he called himself Master Xuan'an. He was from Anding Chaona (Chaona Town, Lingtai County, Gansu Province). He lived with his uncle in Xin'an, but even at the age of 20 he had no interest in studying and was a dissolute playboy. He was inspired by his aunt's admonitions and became indignant, devoting himself to his studies, and since he was poor, he studied while also working on farm work. He studied a wide range of books, and even when he later developed cold sores, he never put his books down, and people called him a "bookworm." He was repeatedly invited to become a government official by Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty (reigned 265-290), but he never served in his lifetime. He wrote many books, including "The Century of Emperors," "Biographies of Gao Shi Huang," "Biographies of Yi Shi Huang," and "Biographies of Heroic Women."

[Yamamoto Noriko]

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中国の医家。現存する最古の鍼灸(しんきゅう)医学書『鍼灸甲乙経(こうおつきょう)』12巻（または『黄帝(こうてい)三部鍼灸甲乙経』『黄帝甲乙経』。俗称『甲乙経』）を著し、鍼灸学の基礎を築いた。字(あざな)は士安、幼名を静、玄晏(げんあん)先生と号した。安定朝那（甘粛(かんしゅく)省霊台県朝那鎮）の人。新安(しんあん)の叔父のところにいたが、20歳になっても学問を好まず放蕩無頼(ほうとうぶらい)であった。叔母に訓戒されて感激し、発憤して学問に励み、貧乏であったので農事に従いながらも勉強した。広く書籍を研究し、のちに風痺(ふうひ)病となっても書物を離さず、人々は彼を「書淫(しょいん)」といったという。晋(しん)の武帝（在位265～290）から、たびたび官僚になるよう招かれたが、終生仕えなかった。著作は多く、『帝王世紀』『高士伝』『逸士伝』『烈女伝』などがある。

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