postgres Li Shizhen (1517 – 1593), Chinese polymath and scientist (1517-1593). /en/people/li-shizhen/relation.html person_cn_q698925 person li-shizhen 李时珍

Li Shizhen (1517 – 1593), Chinese polymath and scientist (1517-1593).

published category-history category-people category-historical-figures tag-ancient-china wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q698925 zhwiki https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%97%B6%E7%8F%8D zhengshi https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%98%8E%E5%8F%B2/%E5%8D%B7299 2026-10-25T00:00:00+08:00 2026-10-29T16:35:15+08:00 user:admin 5 ## Official history > 李時珍，字東璧，蘄州人。好讀醫書，醫家《本草》，自神農所傳止三百六十五種，梁陶弘景所增亦如之，唐蘇恭增一百一十四種，宋劉翰又增一百二十種，至掌禹錫、唐慎微輩，先後增補合一千五百五十八種，時稱大備。然品類既煩，名稱多雜，或一物而析為二三，或二物而混為一品，時珍病之。 — 明史卷二百九十九[^zhengshi] ## Basic facts - Born: 1517[^wikidata] - Died: 1593[^wikidata] ## Works - [[work_cn_q816658|Compendium of Materia Medica]][^wikidata] /people/li-shizhen.html en zh zh en 1517 1517 1593 1593 historical figure relation_cnworks_by_q816658_q698925 work_cn_q816658 created_by person_cn_q698925 work_cn_q816658 wikidata Created works work_cn_q816658 Compendium of Materia Medica /en/works/compendium-materia-medica.html true work_cn_q816658 Compendium of Materia Medica /en/works/compendium-materia-medica.html work created_by Created works relation_cnworks_by_q816658_q698925 work_cn_q816658 created_by person_cn_q698925 work_cn_q816658 wikidata Created works work_cn_q816658 Compendium of Materia Medica /en/works/compendium-materia-medica.html true en zh en birth_date Birth 1517 death_date Death 1593 person_category Person category historical figure 1 50 1 1 1 1