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Ge Fenglin

04-1935Traditional Chinese Medicine DiagnosticsTraditional MedicineHaidian, BeijingBatch 4 (2012)

Lineage & School of Heritage

He is the fourth-generation successor of the Ge family's tendon-pinching and patting therapy. He learned the family therapy from his father Ge Changhai from childhood, applied it while serving in the army, and after demobilisation went to work at the Beijing Railway General Hospital of the Ministry of Railways.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Ge Fenglin was born in June 1955 in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province; he is of Han ethnicity. Guided by the theory of the meridian sinews and the art of daoyin anqiao (guided stretching and massage), and drawing on clinical practice, he has continually summarised and innovated, developing a distinctive theory of pulse positions and a technique of tendon pinching and patting. He has written books and papers including Manual Techniques of Bone Setting in Chinese Medicine, The Ge Family Tendon-Pinching and Patting Therapy of China and The Seven Great Principles of the Ge Family Bone Setting.

Honors & Recognition

He is a national representative bearer of Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnostics (the Ge Family Tendon-Pinching and Patting Therapy), a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He independently created the Shaolin Qigong Fitness Paddle, a tool dedicated to the patting therapy, which received a national patent. He has held training courses in orthopaedics on several occasions and has been invited to lecture in the United States, Japan, Singapore and other countries, training numerous practitioners of Chinese medicine orthopaedics and traumatology from all parts of China and from Southeast Asia, including his fifth-generation successor Ge Shaoxia.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Ge Fenglin · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnostics
Item code
Ⅸ-2
Category
Traditional Medicine
Region
Haidian, Beijing
Born
1955.06.24
Batch
Batch 4 (2012)

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