Yu Huixiang
Lineage & School of Heritage
From the age of 16 he studied Yi medicine successively under the veteran Yi physicians Xu Tianhe, Li Jindou and Xianqi.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in October 1952 in Chuxiong City, Yunnan Province. He has a systematic command of the Yi water-plaster therapy and related techniques, with rich practical experience.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Yi Medicine, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, in respect of the Yi water-plaster therapy. He has devoted himself to research on the Yi water-plaster therapy and taken part in several Yi medicine research projects, which won science and technology progress awards at provincial and autonomous-prefecture level. He took part in compiling and publishing three monographs on Yi medicine, has exercised a certain influence on Yi medicine research in China, and in 2008 received a special government allowance from the Yunnan Provincial Government. He has successively taught the Yi water-plaster therapy and the identification, collection, processing and cultivation of Yi medicinal materials to four disciples: Yang Guohui, He Chunrong, Liu Benxi and Yu Qiuhong.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Yi Medicine Ⅸ-19
- Yi Medicine Ⅸ-19
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