Huangfu Mi

Huangfu Mi
Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures; Huangfu Mi, Wellcome Collection L0039322
Traditional Chinese	皇甫謐
Simplified Chinese	皇甫谧
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Huángfǔ Mì Wade–Giles Huangfu Mi Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Wòhng-pou Maht Jyutping Wong4-pou2 Mat6 Southern Min Hokkien POJ Hông-hú Bi̍t Middle Chinese Middle Chinese Hwang-pjú Mjit Old Chinese Baxter–Sagart (2014) *ɢʷˤang-p(r)aʔ Mit

Huangfu Mi (215 – 282^[1]), courtesy name Shi'an (Chinese: 士安), was a Chinese physician, essayist, historian, poet, and writer who lived through the late Eastern Han dynasty, Three Kingdoms period and early Western Jin dynasty. He was born in a poor farming family in present-day Sanli village, Chaona, Pingliang,^[2] despite being a great-grandson of the famous general Huangfu Song, via Song's son Huangfu Shuxian.^[3]