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Huangdi Neijing, an Uncommon card
Huangdi Neijing, literally the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor or Esoteric Scripture of the Yellow Emperor, is an ancient Chinese medical text or group of texts that has been treated as a fundamental doctrinal source for Chinese medicine for more than two millennia.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 35,000
Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Huangdi Neijing quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Huangdi Neijing card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The second and generally less referred-to text, the ______, discusses acupuncture therapy in great detail.
Answer
Lingshu. The second and generally less referred-to text, the Lingshu, discusses acupuncture therapy in great detail. From the Huangdi Neijing article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Huangdi Neijing. Huangdi Neijing 66 · Heat pump and refrigeration cycle 63 · Caustic 56 · Ammonium acetate 53 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The work comprises two texts, each of eighty-one chapters or treatises in a question-and-answer format between the mythical Yellow Emperor and six of his equally legendary ministers.
- The first text, the Suwen, also known as Basic Questions, covers the theoretical foundation of Chinese Medicine and its diagnostic methods.
- The second and generally less referred-to text, the Lingshu, discusses acupuncture therapy in great detail.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Huangdi Neijing article was read about 35,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Huangdi Neijing
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Huangdi Neijing (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
