The ancients had the following three views on the completion date of Huangdi Neijing.
(1) was written in the pre-Qin and Warring States periods. The representative figures who hold this view are Shao Yong in Song Dynasty, Sang Yue in Ming Dynasty, Fang Yizhi and Wei Li in Qing Dynasty. Shao Yong thinks that Su Wen is a book of the Seven Kingdoms and a book of mystery, which was entrusted to ancient times by what the Warring States did in the book "A Study of the Mind".
(2) This book was written between the Warring States Period and the Qin and Han Dynasties. People who hold this view include Cheng Hao and Sima Guang in Song Dynasty. They think, "The Yellow Emperor also rules the world. Why do you sit in the hall all day and discuss the evils of medical needles with Zeebe?" This week, between the Han Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty, doctors relied on Zhong Er. The Concise Catalogue of Si Ku Quan Shu in Qing Dynasty further affirmed this statement. Dou Zhong said that Su Wen was produced in ancient times, but it was not inevitable, and it was also necessary for people to spread old news and write bamboo and silk in Zhou and Qin Dynasties. "Because" Sikuquanshu "has a high position in the ancient academic circles of China, so this statement is accepted by many people.
This book was written in the Western Han Dynasty. The Seven Drafts written by Lang Bo in Ming Dynasty thought that the first piece of Su Wen was ancient and medieval, but this life was the evil of the last Yellow Emperor? Also, it is said that wine is pulp, and it is common to act rashly. People at that time were hypocritical and evil. Luo wrapped in realgar in Jing mai LUN and suffered from blood thirst in Forbidden Chapter, so Luo and blood thirst are evil in China's current affairs? Therefore, some people think that Huang Qi is irrelevant, but Huainan is a successful writer. Here, Lambert inferred that Su River was produced in the Western Han Dynasty from the legend of wine-making in Yidi and the evidence that Luo appeared in the Han Dynasty.
The ancients' views on the completion time of Huangdi Neijing were mainly these. However, the research does not stop here, and there are many contemporary research results on this issue. By comparing Neijing with Zhou Li and Biography of Historical Records of Bian Que and Cang Gong, they showed their consistency in academic thought, and by analyzing the literary structure of Su Wen, they showed that this part came from the pre-Qin period and could not be late. It is believed that this part of the content came from the Warring States to the Eastern Han Dynasty and was mostly compiled by doctors. As for the coffin, the author first judges that the coffin and the needle sutra is actually a book by analyzing the authenticity of its book, and then draws the conclusion that the coffin text is basically a book.
Others think that the chapters in Huangdi Neijing were not written by one author in a short time at the same time, but by many doctors and scholars in different periods. The chapter of Huangdi Neijing was written during the Warring States Period, and also existed in Qin and Han Dynasties and even later dynasties. There are five kinds of sayings: First, some chapters of Su Wen use dry branches to indicate time, and the calendar of dry branches is after the Eastern Han Dynasty. The word "thousand hands" used in Su Wen Bao Quan Ming Xing Lun is the name of the Warring States and Qin Dynasties, while Xiang Fu Guan and Zhou Du Guan in Su Wen Ling Lan Mi Dian Lun are the official names appearing in Cao Wei. Thirdly, some documents cited in Huangdi Neijing, such as Shangxiajing, Moxibustion Classic written by Mawangdui 1973 in Changsha, bamboo slips 1972 unearthed from Han Tomb in Wuwei, Gansu, Panbin of Six Kings and Taiyi unearthed from Ruyinhou Tomb in Fuyang, Anhui.