Chinanews.com, Dexing, Jiangxi, October 22nd, title: Dream chaser on the road of Chinese medicine inheritance on Xiaokang Road on the red soil

  Author: Wang Chengqian Cheng Zhiqiang Xiao Yunxin

  "Shegan is sunny. When planting, we must move towards the sun. Weeding needs to be carried out in time. The excess weeds will absorb the fertility of the land and affect the growth of Shegan." Hu Yuping is busy explaining shegan planting techniques to members of the cooperative.

  Hu Yuping is the fifth generation inheritor of Dexing Zu's traditional Chinese medicine medical therapy, and also a representative of the 8th People's Congress of Dexing City.

According to historical records, Dexing Zu’s traditional Chinese medicine medical therapy originated in the Qing Xianfeng period and has a history of more than 160 years.

Because of his family ties, Hu Yuping grew up in a pharmacy since he was a child, and was active in the pharmacy. He followed his father and his maternal ancestors to copy prescriptions to see doctors, listened to them discussing prescriptions and medicinal materials, and had a keen interest and deep affection for Chinese medicine.

  For many reasons, when he grew up, Hu Yuping reluctantly chose to do business. He drove car repair shops and hotels before and after. Although the business was doing well, he always kept in mind his mission as the fifth-generation heir of the ancestral Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine has flourished.

Hu Yuping performed traditional Chinese medicine pricking and cupping for patients at Zu's Baicao Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum.

Photo by Cheng Zhiqiang

  In April 2015, the State Council successively issued two important documents on Chinese medicine, the "Chinese Medicine Health Service Development Plan (2015-2020)" and the "Chinese Medicinal Materials Protection and Development Plan (2015-2020)".

Hu Yuping had a foreboding that the spring of Chinese medicine was here.

After obtaining the consent of his family, he decisively transferred the auto repair shop and hotel, registered Dexing Baicaoyuan Ecological Health and Health Co., Ltd., established Dexing Zu’s Baicao Chinese Medicine Museum, and transferred the land in Xiaomuyuan Village, Huaqiao Town for 2000 Established the Zu's Baicao Chinese herbal medicine base on acres, and plunged into the Chinese medicine research and Chinese herbal medicine planting business that he wanted to his heart without hesitation.

  In the planting of Chinese herbal medicines, he took the local rare medicinal materials as the starting point, carefully selected the varieties, and participated in the whole planting process from site selection, seedling breeding, transplanting, cultivating management, and pest control. Pharmaceutical farmers or consult experts in Chinese herbal medicine.

Relying on his knowledge and dedication to medicinal materials, 136 rare Chinese herbal medicines and 9 endangered Chinese herbal medicines, including Aesculus aesculus, Feitian centipede, and purple salvia, have been successfully tested in his base.

Zu's Baicao Chinese Herbal Medicine Base has been successively included in the Jiangxi Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Science Education and Culture Base, and the first batch of key units of the Chinese Medicine Cultural Tourism Demonstration Base Project in Shangrao City.

In 2020, Hu Yuping was named the outstanding representative inheritor of Shangrao's intangible cultural heritage.

  In the research of traditional Chinese medicine, Hu Yuping actively carried out the upgrading of the industrial system, with the purpose of curing the disease before turning to the serious disease and improving the sub-health, and devoted himself to the research of traditional medicine health preservation.

By cooperating with universities and extracting the essence of traditional Chinese medicine, we have successively developed health care products such as health wine series, health tea series and health secret recipe series, and are uniquely used to treat symptoms such as wind-cold headache, cervical spondylopathy, peri-shoulder disease, etc. Acupuncture drainage method and bamboo tube puncture and cupping pain therapy.

Currently, detox and beauty sprays and sprays for rheumatism and pain are applying for the National Medicine Standard.

Hu Yuping led the farmers to Damao Mountain in search of wild Chinese herbal medicine.

Photo by Cheng Zhiqiang

  In order to encourage more villagers to develop Chinese herbal medicine planting, Hu Yuping joined hands with the garden house where the base is located to set up a Chinese herbal medicine planting cooperative. Through the business model of “enterprise + cooperative + farmer households”, the cooperative provides nursery stocks, technology and other services, signed a purchase agreement, Approve willing and capable farmers to join the cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials.

According to statistics, since the establishment of the cooperative, a total of 104 poverty-stricken households have been included, with an annual employment of more than 6,000 working days, and the average annual income of poor households from labor and dividends is more than 17,000 yuan.

  "Teaching farmers the most suitable planting techniques and supplying the best Chinese medicinal materials to users is my original intention, and it is also my responsibility and mission as a representative of the National People's Congress." With rapid development, the inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine is facing more difficulties and challenges, but he firmly believes that "the future of traditional Chinese medicine is promising", and he will continue on the path of inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine.

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