Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture (Tongjun Chinese Medicine Culture)

Zhejiang
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Traditional Chinese medicine culture (Tongjun Chinese medicine culture), traditional medicine of Tonglu County, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China, is one of the provincial intangible cultural heritages of Zhejiang Province. Tongjun Chinese medicine culture is a traditional medicine culture that spreads throughout the country with Tonglu County as the core. It includes the legend of Tongjun, the ancestor of Chinese medicine, the extensive and long-standing traditional Chinese medicine collection and planting traditions among the people of Tonglu, the traditional Chinese medicine processing methods, the "Xuanhu Jishi, Seeking Truth and Helping People" medical culture of Tongjun Famous Doctor Hall, and the "Huaxia Chinese Medicine Festival" and other folk Tongjun worship activities, which have a long history, profound cultural heritage and a broad mass base. 1. Legend: Tongjun was a person in the time of Huangdi. It is said that he refined elixirs and repaired furnaces in Tongjun Mountain, collected hundreds of herbs, identified the properties and flavors of plants, trees, gold and stones, and determined the three-grade medicines. He is recognized as the ancestor of Chinese medicine. In Tonglu, many stories about the old man Tongjun are circulated. 2. Planting and collecting herbs: Tonglu's pharmaceutical industry has a long history. The Tonglu County Chronicles of the 22nd year of Kangxi and the 2nd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty recorded 50 and 67 varieties of local medicinal materials respectively. In the 1929 Hangzhou West Lake Expo, the Poria cocos, papaya, gallnut and polygonatum odoratum selected by Tonglu won the first prize of Chinese medicinal materials. In June 1988, the county had more than 840 kinds of local medicinal materials with a total reserve of 11 million kilograms, including Cornus officinalis, Pinellia, Rubus idaeus, Atractylodes macrocephala, Polygonatum sibiricum, Chrysanthemum indica, Imperata root, Pueraria root, Leonurus herb, Cyperus rotundus, Corydalis yanhusuo, Scrophularia ningpoensis, Chinese yam and dozens of other local medicinal materials are famous for their rich reserves and excellent quality. 3. Traditional Chinese Medicine: In the 17th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1384), the predecessor of Hangzhou Tongjuntang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., "Huimin Pharmacy", was founded. In the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, it was called Tonglu Medicinal Materials Guild Hall, Shouquan Pharmacy, etc. In 1960, it was renamed Tonglu County Chinese and Western Medicine Company. In 2006, Hangzhou Tongjuntang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. was established with "Tongjuntang" as the business name on the basis of the original company. Adhering to the spirit of "saving the world and rescuing disasters" of Tongjun, the famous old Chinese medicine practitioners of Tonglu have accumulated rich experience in preventing and treating diseases while serving the people. In decades of medical practice, they have compiled a large number of single prescriptions and prescriptions, and compiled the book "Selected Experiences of Famous Old Chinese Medicine Practitioners in Tonglu". Famous old Chinese medicine practitioners include Xu Zhongfan, Xu Zichun, Jin Xueming, Hu Zhijing and others. The ancient Tong Jun, who collected herbs and sought the truth, stopped in Tonglu. His good deeds of building furnaces and refining elixirs under the sycamore tree and saving people have been praised for thousands of years. He recognized plants, metals and stones, and determined the three-grade medicines. In particular, he pioneered the Chinese medicine prescription rules of monarch, minister, assistant and envoy, which made great contributions to the development of Chinese medicine. The glorious and great work "Tong Jun's Collection of Herbs" has been lost for a long time, which makes future generations sigh. There is Shennong in the north and Tong Jun in the south. Old Man Tong Jun is praised as the "ancestor of Chinese medicine" and it is well deserved. Tonglu is the real scene of the masterpiece "Fuchun Mountain Dwelling" handed down by Huang Gongwang, a great painter of the Yuan Dynasty. It is natural for it to be praised as the "holy land of the ancestor of medicine". The extremely precious humanistic heritage and splendid culture of Old Man Tong Jun, the eternal ancestor of Chinese medicine, are treasures in the Chinese traditional medicine culture and an indispensable and important part. Tongjun's legacy of "healing the world and seeking truth to help people" leads people and advocates Chinese medicine practitioners to pursue truth, goodness and beauty. Tongjun's spirit of "healing the world and using good medicine to save the people" is the core value of Tongjun's Chinese medicine culture.

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