Li Feiyue

01 · Lineage & Regional School

Li Feiyue, Male, Han, from Shanghai, is a sixth-batch national representative bearer of TCM Bone-setting Therapy (Ⅸ-6). The tradition is documented in Shanghai. Within the regional tradition and school record of TCM Bone-setting Therapy in Shanghai: At present, it is mainly distributed across 10 medical institutions in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Guangdong. It emphasizes the holistic concept and the classification of injuries, dividing injuries into four major categories: hard injuries, soft injuries, internal injuries, and external injuries. Therapeutic exercises are divided into jaw exercises (4 forms), neck exercises (5 forms), back exercises (4 forms), waist exercises (10 forms), upper-limb exercises (17 forms), and lower-limb exercises (14 forms). The Wei family's traumatology originated from the Wei family of hereditary doctors in Cao County, Shandong. Wei Zhixin was the twenty-first-generation inheritor and studied the family medicine from childhood. In 1925, Wei Zhixin went alone to make his way in Shanghai. In 1955, Wei Zhixin closed his private clinic, joined the Shanghai Second Medical College, and established traditional Chinese traumatology departments simultaneously at Guangci Hospital (now Ruijin Hospital), Renji Hospital, and Xinhua Hospital.

02 · Mastery & Signature Works

The bearer record for Li Feiyue is anchored in the documented technical standards of TCM Bone-setting Therapy in Shanghai. Within the documented technical tradition of TCM Bone-setting Therapy in Shanghai: The Wei family's traumatology is a famous school of traditional Chinese orthopedics and traumatology characterized by "combining internal administration with external medication, and supplementing manipulation with therapeutic exercise (daoyin)." He hung out his shingle at Shouxiang Lane, Fangbang Bridge, in the old Nanshi district of Shanghai; after the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he moved to Luban Road in the French Concession (now Chongqing South Road) and opened a private clinic. Thanks to his outstanding medical skill and noble medical ethics, he quickly became renowned in Shanghai. Under the guidance of the holistic view of traditional Chinese medicine, the Wei family's traumatology takes as its academic thought "qi and blood are essential, with equal weight to sinews and bones; the liver and kidneys are paramount, with the spleen and stomach secured; emphasis on manipulation and the restoration of balance." It identifies injuries through comprehensive reference to multiple signs, treats injuries with combined internal and external therapy, prizes manipulation in treating injuries, and values therapeutic exercise in healing injuries. It has created distinctive internal and external medications as well as manipulation and therapeutic exercise. The internal and external medication forms are complete. Internal prescriptions include decoctions (56 kinds), pills (18 kinds), powders (8 kinds), and medicinal liquors (3 kinds); external medications include poultices (4 kinds), powders (3 kinds), plasters (4 kinds), medicinal liquids (1 kind), ointments (3 kinds), hot-compress medicines (2 kinds), wash formulas (14 kinds), and steam-compress medicines (1 kind). It possesses numerous proven and secret formulas, such as the steam-compress formula and Fuqi Pills. Manipulations are divided into single and compound techniques. The single techniques include 12 reduction manipulations for fractures and dislocations and 8 manipulations for soft-tissue injuries; there are 18 compound techniques. The Wei family's traumatology takes clinical diagnosis and treatment as its main mode of practice, with its inheritors' concrete clinical application of internal and external medications, manipulation, and therapeutic exercise as its means of medical practice. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "Internal and external medicine together": Sixty-five internal formulas and thirty-two external ones give the school a medicine for every stage of injury. "Single and compound manipulations": Twelve reduction methods and eight soft-tissue methods, plus eighteen compound routines for chronic conditions. "Exercises by body part": Fifty-four exercises are sorted by body part, so a patient need only practise the region affected. "Hard, soft, internal and external injury": Injuries are sorted into four classes, each with its own sequence of examination, treatment and exercise.

03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status

In 2025, Li Feiyue was announced in the sixth batch of national representative bearers for TCM Bone-setting Therapy, with Shanghai as the declared area. Within the documented safeguarding record of TCM Bone-setting Therapy in Shanghai: The project was inscribed in the national inventory in 2021 (batch 5), with Shanghai as its declared area, and Shanghai Jiaotong University Yi College Affiliated Ruijin Hospital 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

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.

06 · Archival Sources & Bibliography

1. Lifeiyue (Shanghai) · China ICH Official Project Archive
2. Lifeiyue · China ICH Official Archive