[The name of Northern Qi physician "Xu Minqi" should be "Xu Minxing"].

ABSTRACT

Nearly all of the writings on history of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and TCM reference books referred "Xu Minqi" (), a physician of the Northern Qi Dynasty(550-577), as a son of Xu Zhifan(), and some medical books and literary sketches recorded the name as "Xu Minzhai" (), or "Xu Min" (). But there are no mention of "Xu Minqi" , "Xu Minzhai" , nor "Xu Min" among Xu Zhifan's 12 sons' names written in Yi Tong San Si Xu Gong Mu Zhi(The Epitaph of Xu Zhifan, ), a more convincing historical record. Based on the textual research on the ancient literature, it is inferred that "Xu Minxing" was mistaken as "Xu Min" , "Xu Minqi" , "Xu Minzhai" . "Xu Minqi" in the current writings should be corrected.