Emperor Yuwang (帝榆罔), surname Jiang (姜), was the eighth and the last legendary Yan Emperor during the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors .
6-716: According to the Records of Emperors and Kings by Huangfu Mi , he was the last Yan Emperor of the Shennong clan. Born in Chengliu (承留) (present day southeast of Kaifeng County , Kaifeng , Henan Province ) as the son of Jiang Ke (姜克), the sixth or seventh Yan Emperor. Their capital was at Yichuan (present day south of Luoyang , Henan ). According to the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Zhen , Di Yuwang,
12-407: A collection of various texts on acupuncture written in earlier periods. This book in 12 volumes further divided into 128 chapters was one of the earliest systematic works on acupuncture and moxibustion , and it proved to be one of the most influential. Huangfu Mi also compiled ten books in a series called Records of Emperors and Kings ( Chinese : 帝王世紀 ; pinyin : Dìwáng shìjì ). He
18-510: A poor farming family in present-day Sanli village, Chaona , Pingliang , despite being a great-grandson of the famous general Huangfu Song , via Song's son Huangfu Shuxian. Between 256 and 260, toward the end of the state of Cao Wei , he compiled the Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion ( simplified Chinese : 针灸甲乙经 ; traditional Chinese : 針灸甲乙經 ; pinyin : Zhēnjiǔ jiǎyǐ jīng ; Wade–Giles : Chen -chiu chia -i ching ),
24-525: The Yan Emperor, together with the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou, are collectively known as the "Three Patriarchs of China". Huangfu Mi Huangfu Mi (215 – 282 ), 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
30-576: The battle and surrendered to the Yellow Emperor. He agreed to merge his tribe with the Yellow Emperor's to form a new confederation, the Yanhuang tribe. The Yellow Emperor and Yuwang the former Yan Emperor then led the newly merged Yanhuang tribe to war with Chiyou and his tribe in the Battle of Zhuolu and defeated them, thus establishing their cultural and political dominance in China proper . Therefore,
36-592: The last Yan Emperor and his tribe engaged in the battle with the invading Chiyou 's Jiuli tribe and were defeated. They retreated from that recent invasion and came into territorial conflict with its neighbouring Youxiong tribes led by the Yellow Emperor . The Youxiong tribe engaged the Shennong tribe in a large-scale Battle of Banquan in Chinese history. After three major engagements, the Yan Emperor lost
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