Zheng Rongbo
01 · Lineage & Regional School
Zheng Rongbo, Male, Han, from Wenhuating, Guangdong, is a sixth-batch national representative bearer of Liangcha (Ⅷ-89). The tradition is documented in Wenhuating, Guangdong. Within the regional tradition and school record of Liangcha in Wenhuating, Guangdong: The Liangcha-making craft mainly spreads across Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao; Liangcha shops bearing different names can be found throughout Lingnan, with the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture as the item's protecting unit. The shops are mostly set along the streets, with signs such as 'Twenty-Four Tastes' and 'Five-Flower Tea' hung at their doors. Liangcha is divided into several categories by season and local climate, and each shop's formula and price differ. In 306 CE, the Daoist physician and pharmacologist Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin traveled south to Lingnan; because epidemic miasma was then prevalent, he was able to devote himself to studying the various warm-disease medicines of Lingnan.
02 · Mastery & Signature Works
The bearer record for Zheng Rongbo is anchored in the documented technical standards of Liangcha in Wenhuating, Guangdong. Within the documented technical tradition of Liangcha in Wenhuating, Guangdong: Liangcha (herbal tea) is a beverage developed by the people of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao based on local climate and soil-water characteristics, in the long process of disease prevention and health care, guided by traditional Chinese medicine's health-preservation theory, using Chinese medicinal herbs as raw materials, and refined through consumption and experience. It accompanies people's daily lives and has effects such as clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting fluid and quenching thirst, and dispelling fire and removing dampness. It has specific terminology to guide daily consumption, with neither dosage restrictions nor the need for a doctor's guidance. The medical treatises left by Ge Hong, together with the rich experience summarized by later Lingnan 'warm-school' physicians from the laboring people's long process of disease prevention and treatment, gave rise to Liangcha with its profound Lingnan cultural foundations; its formulas and terminology have been passed down through generations. Historical anecdotes and folk legends about Liangcha are widely circulated in Lingnan and overseas, enduring through the ages. For several hundred years, the Liangcha shops standing in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao have formed a unique cultural landscape of Lingnan. During the 'Cultural Revolution,' although Liangcha culture suffered severe destruction—not only were Liangcha shops closed, but also the implements, sites, relics, historical materials, and photographs related to Liangcha were reduced to very few—it nevertheless endured in Hong Kong and Macao. The 54 formulas of 16 Liangcha brands—including Wanglaoji, Shangqingyin, Jianshengtang, Denglao, Baiyunshan, Huang Zhenlong, Xu Qixiu, Chunhetang, Jin Hulu, Xingqun, Runxintang, Shaxi, Li's, Qingxintang, Xinglinchun, and Baoqingtang—and the Liangcha culture they constitute have gained broad public recognition. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "Shop signs naming the formulas": Shops advertise their formulas by name — twenty-four herbs, five flowers — and no two streets mix them quite alike. "Composed on medical theory": Composed over centuries on the principles of Chinese medicine, against the damp and heat of the Lingnan climate. "Taken as a daily drink": Ordinary citizens drink it without dosage or physician, though Ge Hong's writings and later southern medicine gave the formulas their grounding.
Shop signs naming the formulas
Shops advertise their formulas by name — twenty-four herbs, five flowers — and no two streets mix them quite alike.
Composed on medical theory
Composed over centuries on the principles of Chinese medicine, against the damp and heat of the Lingnan climate.
Taken as a daily drink
Ordinary citizens drink it without dosage or physician, though Ge Hong's writings and later southern medicine gave the formulas their grounding.
03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status
In 2025, Zheng Rongbo was announced in the sixth batch of national representative bearers for Liangcha, with Wenhuating, Guangdong as the declared area. Within the documented safeguarding record of Liangcha in Wenhuating, Guangdong: The project was inscribed in the national inventory in 2006 (batch 1), with Wenhuating, Guangdong as its declared area, and Guangdong Shipinhangye Association as its safeguarding unit. Since the project was inscribed in the national inventory, its declared area and safeguarding unit have carried out documentation, transmission and presentation within the national safeguarding framework. Together, the inventory record and the project archive form the public documentary basis for the bearer’s transmission practice.
04 · Associated Heritage Item Dossier
Historical origin
In 306 CE, the Daoist physician and pharmacologist Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin traveled south to Lingnan; because epidemic miasma was then prevalent, he was able to devote himself to studying the various warm-disease medicines of Lingnan.
05 · Fellow National Bearers Lineage
National representative bearers recorded under the same item code, ordered from the first to the sixth batch. Batch order is not a teacher–student relationship.
| Bearer | Declared area | Roster code | Relation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wang Yonghui | Wenhuating, Guangdong | 05-2783 | Same declared area |
| Zheng Rongbo | Wenhuating, Guangdong | — | This page |
06 · Archival Sources & Bibliography
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