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

Nearly all of the writings on history of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and TCM reference books referred "Xu Minqi" (徐敏齐), a physician of the Northern Qi Dynasty(550-577), as a son of Xu Zhifan(徐之范), and some medical books and literary sketches recorded the name as "Xu Minzhai" (徐敏斋), or "Xu Min" (徐敏). 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, 仪同三司徐公墓志), 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. Key words: Xu Zhicai; Xu Zhifan; Xu Minqi; Xu Minxing