Huangdi Neijing, also known as Huangdi Neijing, is said to have been written by Huangdi, so it was named after it. However, it is generally believed that this book was finally formed in the Western Han Dynasty, and the author was not a single person, but was created by Huang Lao, a doctor in China.

As pointed out in "Huai Nan Zi Xiu Wu Xun", the title of "Yellow Emperor" is intended to trace back to the source and worship the original to illustrate the early birth of China medical culture. It's not a moment's talk, nor is it a single hand.

In the pre-Qin period, Huangfu Mi in Jin Dynasty, Lin Bu in Song Dynasty and Gao Baoheng held this view. They think that a scientific masterpiece like Huangdi Neijing can't be completed by a wise man, so it must have been written by Huangdi.

Shao Yong, Cheng Hao, Sima Guang and Zhu in the Song Dynasty, Sang Yue, Fang Yizhi and Fang Xiaoru in the Ming Dynasty and Wei Litong in the Qing Dynasty held this view during the Warring States Period. The main reasons are as follows: First, there are many similarities between Su Wen of Huangdi Neijing and Zhou Li, both in the Warring States period, which fully proves that the two books are works of the same era and the same ideological system.

In the Western Han Dynasty, Lang Ying of the Ming Dynasty inferred that it was produced in the Western Han Dynasty from the legend of Yidi brewing and the evidence that Luo appeared in the Han Dynasty. Modern Chinese medicine experts such as He Wu also hold this view. The main reasons are as follows: First, Huangdi Neijing has about 200,000 words, which can be said to be a masterpiece more than 2,000 years ago.

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Han Shu's Ji Fanglue contains four kinds of Chinese medicine classics: medical classics, classical prescriptions, immortals and sexual intercourse [4]? Huangdi Neijing is included in medical classics.

The so-called "medical classics" are works that expound medical theories such as human physiology, pathology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention [5]? . It is called "Beijing" because of its importance. The ancients called important books that had certain rules and generally had to be studied "classics", such as the Confucian Six Classics, Laozi's Tao Te Ching, and the simple three-character classics.

The reason why it is called "Neijing" is not that "Yin and Yang of the five internal organs are called" internal "in Wu Kun's Su Wen Zhu and Wang Jiu's Neijing Jing Lun He", nor that "the internal is the way to deal with the world" in Zhang Jiebin's Jing Lei, but just opposite to "external".

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Huangdi Neijing (Medical History Literature)