Long Yunian
Lineage & School of Heritage
From the age of 13 he studied medicine with his father, comprehensively inheriting and developing the Miao medical theories of treatment and of medicinal properties.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Through long accumulation of clinical experience, he classified diseases into thirty-six syndromes and seventy-two ailments, prescribing according to the condition with a wide variety of methods. From 1953 to 1962 he served as a Miao physician at the health centre of Liubo Township, then the Tuopai Commune, and afterwards practised independently until his death. Always guided by the principle of saving the dying and healing the wounded, he served mainly Fenghuang, Jishou, Huayuan, Songtao and neighbouring counties and cities, treating patients regardless of rank, wealth or kinship, with patience and caution, and achieved distinctive results in the treatment of both common and intractable diseases.
Honors & Recognition
Male, Miao ethnicity, born in November 1935, died in August 2016, a native of Fenghuang County, Hunan Province. He was a national representative bearer of Miao Medicine, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, in respect of epilepsy therapy. He was also an important transmitter of Miao medical skills and took more than twenty disciples, among whom Long Yuchang and Long Yushan have become fifteenth-generation transmitters of the Long family medical tradition.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Miao Medicine Ⅸ-15
- Miao Medicine Ⅸ-15
- Miao Medicine Ⅸ-15
- Miao Medicine Ⅸ-15
- Miao Medicine Ⅸ-15
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