皇甫谧的一生行迹（215-282）
皇甫谧，字士安，自号玄晏先生，安定朝那（今甘肃平凉）人，魏晋著名医学家、学者。一生隐居不仕，潜心著述，著有《针灸甲乙经》十二卷，是中国现存最早的针灸学专著，对后世医学影响深远。另著有《帝王世纪》《高士传》等。
平凉（215） · 平凉少时
汉献帝建安二十年，皇甫谧出生于安定郡朝那县（今甘肃平凉），其家为汉代名门之后，但至其父已家道中落。皇甫谧幼年过继给叔父，少年时不喜读书，终日游荡，被人视为不肖之子。
平凉（240） · 发愤苦读
魏齐王正始元年前后，皇甫谧发愤读书，博览经史百家，尤精医学。他自号"玄晏先生"，以著述为志，多次拒绝朝廷征召，终身不仕。他常说："吾宁为田间一老农，不为庙堂一闲官。"
长安（248） · 发愤苦读
魏齐王正始九年前后，魏国朝廷遣使至平凉征召皇甫谧入长安为官。皇甫谧坚辞不受，但他对长安之行颇为心动，曾短暂前往长安访求古籍善本。长安为西汉故都，藏书丰富，他在长安搜得数部珍稀医书，为后来编撰《针灸甲乙经》积累了宝贵资料。
平凉（255） · 隐居著述
魏高贵乡公正元二年前后，皇甫谧因长期苦读积劳成疾，患风痹之症，半身不遂。但他并未因此消沉，反而在病中深入研习医学，将自己的亲身病痛体验融入医学研究之中。他在病榻上开始编撰《针灸甲乙经》。
平凉（265） · 编撰甲乙经
晋武帝泰始元年前后，皇甫谧在病榻上完成了《针灸甲乙经》十二卷。此书系统整理了古代针灸学理论，确定了三百四十九个穴位，是中国现存最早的针灸学专著，对后世中医针灸学影响极为深远。
洛阳（270） · 编撰甲乙经
晋武帝泰始六年前后，晋廷迁都洛阳后，再次遣使征召皇甫谧入洛阳为官。皇甫谧依然婉拒，但他命弟子将《针灸甲乙经》的抄本送往洛阳太医署，希望此书能为更多医者所用。洛阳太医署收到此书后大为重视，将其列为官方医学教材。
平凉（275） · 晚年坚隐
晋武帝咸宁元年前后，晋武帝司马炎多次征召皇甫谧入朝为官，甚至封他为太子中庶子，但皇甫谧坚辞不受。他上表说："臣久婴笃疾，心血损耗，不堪趋走之役。"武帝尊重他的选择，赐他一车书籍。
平凉（282） · 晚年坚隐
晋武帝太康三年，皇甫谧病逝于平凉，享年六十八岁。他一生隐居不仕，潜心著述，以病弱之躯完成了不朽的医学巨著。其《针灸甲乙经》至今仍是中医针灸学的重要经典，被翻译成多种文字，对世界医学也有重要影响。
The Life Journey of Huangfu Mi, Father of Acupuncture
Huangfu Mi (215-282), styled Shi'an, the 'Master Xuanyan' of Anding Chaona, was the physician-scholar who fixed acupuncture forever. A truant till twenty, then a reader till paralysis took half his body — and out of his own sickness he compiled the 'A-B Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion,' 349 points mapped, the oldest such work that survives. Seven imperial summons, seven refusals.
Timeline of the Journey
- 215 · 平凉 — Born in Chaona of Anding (Pingliang), heir of a great Han house fallen quiet; adopted to an uncle, idle into his teens — the village called him a fool.
- 240 · 平凉 — At twenty-five shamed by an aunt's gift of cloth into study: a hundred schools read, the pen-name 'Master Xuanyan' taken, and the first of many summons refused — 'I would rather farm.'
- 248 · 长安 — A trip east to Chang'an for rare books only — no office sought; the old capital's libraries feeding a private scholar's shelf.
- 255 · 平凉 — Wind-paralysis, half his body dead; the sickbed became his second academy, medicine studied against his own pain.
- 265 · 平凉 — On that bed, the 'A-B Classic of Acupuncture' completed in twelve books — 349 points, the first canon of the needle.
- 270 · 洛阳 — The Jin court removed to Luoyang and summoned him again; he stayed home — but sent his book to the Imperial Medical Office, that more healers might use it.
- 275 · 平凉 — Even a crown-tutorship in the heir's household could not move him: 'long chained to grave illness, I cannot run errands.' The emperor let him keep his books.
- 282 · 平凉 — Died at sixty-eight in Pingliang, the needles he canonized already traveling without him — the 'A-B Classic' still taught in every school of acupuncture.
'I had rather be one old farmer in the fields than a collar in the capital.' Huangfu Mi turned a paralytic's bed into the founding bench of Chinese acupuncture — and never once took an office.
