Early on in my western han dynasty in its famous writer sima qian the shiji, has the biography of the warring states period famous doctor bian que who usually traveled everywhere. When GanBoZong medical historians to tang dynasty integrating before tang successive physicians biographies of 120 people biography, for the medical encyclopedia book seven volumes, and has handed a praise in ancient China, is the graph of biographies books maintains. Pity the book had already lost, but its contents in song dynasty ZhouShouZhong (about its later by the 13th century) for generations by the surgeon "(1220) have included.

     In the song dynasty 1006 differ with the once since zhao Zhi biography of the famous doctors show, about contemporary physicians YongNian also wrote the party records of medical mysteries. But unfortunately, these two books also lost, don't know its detailed content. The ZhangGao 1189 years, the necessary medical said "compilation, its first volume is past dynasties famous doctors, from the tang dynasty, the memorial rituals of 116 name to. This is our country the oldest designed volume maintains biographies. And as China maintains that the existent earliest monograph on Ming literati & characters -- 1568 in 1488 (interestingly, the compilation of) maintains.

     The encyclopedia of 10 volumes of maintains. The book includes zuo zhuan JinDaiLi Gao medical and the following to the 55 people in historical-biography using the home, and collect the song dynasty ZhangKuo contained in the collection of the following to zhang, also 10 ideas BuXie ZhangZhongJing, the king WangShuHe, wang bing, Odyssey, wear the original ritual, Gregory should ray necessary biographies, such as paper after every biography also included. The book entitled "the maintains from ancient literatures" actually collected part of characters brief biography maintains.