Huangdi

According to an article in Rheumatology, the first documentation of an "organized system of diagnosis and treatment" for acupuncture was in The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine ( Huangdi Neijing ) from about 100 BC.

Chinese macrobiotics The Huangdi Neijing includes some of the earliest known recommendations of the natural effects of diet, lifestyle, emotions, environment, and age as factors of disease.

Following the death of the emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, the Qin dynasty collapsed and control was taken over by the Han dynasty in 206 BC.

His unification of the other six powers, and further annexations in the modern regions of Zhejiang (浙江), Fujian (福建), Guangdong (廣東) and Guangxi (廣西) in 214 BC enabled him to proclaim himself the First Emperor (Qin Shi Huangdi, 秦始皇帝).

Huangdi is composed of huang ("august one", 皇) and di ("sage-king", 帝), and referred to legendary/mythological sage-emperors living several millennia earlier, of which three were huang and five were di.

Of the military texts written before the unification of China and Shi Huangdi 's subsequent book burning in the second century BC, six major works have survived.