Lu Yanyao
Lineage & School of Heritage
She studied under her father, the celebrated acupuncture master Lu Shouyan, and fully carried on the academic thought of Lu's acupuncture, especially the needling methods of burning mountain fire and penetrating heaven cool that the Lu family pioneered, and the distinctive technique of two-handed claw-pressure needle insertion. She served as head of the Lu Shouyan Veteran Chinese Medicine Expert Studio at Longhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and as head of the inheritance and research base for Lu's acupuncture of the Shanghai school of traditional Chinese medicine; at the same time she lectured in China and abroad, actively promoting Lu's acupuncture and teaching disciples. She published several monographs expounding the academic thought, clinical experience and school characteristics of Lu's acupuncture, and has had a certain influence in Chinese acupuncture circles.
Honors & Recognition
Lu Yanyao was born in March 1944 in Shanghai Municipality and died in May 2016; she was of Han ethnicity. She is a representative bearer of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Lu's acupuncture therapy), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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