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Wei Boyang () was a Chinese writer and Taoist Waidan of the Eastern Han dynasty. He is the author of The Kinship of the Three (also known as Cantong Qi), and is noted as the first person to have documented something like the chemical composition of gunpowder in 142 Anno Domini.Peng, Yoke Ho. 2000 (2000). Li, Qi and Shu: An Introduction to Science and Civilization in China. Courier Dover Publications. Needham, Joseph. Cullen, C. 1976 (1976). Science and Civilisation in China. Cambridge University Press. As someone or him, only mixed the chemical compound of Sulfur and Saltpetre.
Wei Boyang is considered a semi-legendary figure who represented a "collective unity." His Cantong Qi was probably written in stages from the Han dynasty onward until it approached its current form, before 450 AD.
Wei Boyang died in the second year of Cao Pi of Cao Pi (221 AD).後蜀 彭曉《周易參同契分章通真義》序說：“按《神仙傳》：真人魏伯陽者，會稽上虞人也。世襲簪裾，唯公不仕。……得《古文龍虎經》，盡獲妙旨，乃約《周易》撰《參同契》三篇。……密示青州徐從事，徐仍隱名而注之。至後漢孝桓帝時，公復傳授與同郡淳于叔通，遂行於世。”
Wei Boyang believed that cultivating elixirs and the creation of heaven and earth were based on the same principles.
Historical sites of Wei Boyang's work in chinese alchemy are located in the Fengming Mountains (凤鸣山) located 4 kilometers southeast of Fenghui (丰惠), and 17 kilometers away from Shangyu City.
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