Zhu Liguo

01 · Lineage & Regional School

Zhu Liguo, Male, Han, from China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, is a sixth-batch national representative bearer of TCM Bone-setting Therapy (Ⅸ-6). The tradition is documented in China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. Within the regional tradition and school record of TCM Bone-setting Therapy in China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences: It is an important component of traditional Chinese medicine, with a history of more than three thousand years to the present day.

02 · Mastery & Signature Works

The bearer record for Zhu Liguo is anchored in the documented technical standards of TCM Bone-setting Therapy in China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. Within the documented technical tradition of TCM Bone-setting Therapy in China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences: Traditional Chinese medicine bone-setting therapy is a treatment method that, through manipulations such as traction, repositioning, and alignment, employs external fixation with small splints to treat fractures, joint dislocations, and other diseases of the locomotor system. Through long-term medical practice, Chinese bone-setting has formed a distinctive theoretical system and complete principles and methods of treatment, and has accumulated very rich experience. The "small splint fixation" used in bone-setting was first developed in China and was later emulated by many countries. Chinese bone-setting can be called one of the great contributions of traditional Chinese medicine to world medicine. Among these traditions, some are documented in the literature, while others have survived only through oral transmission among the people. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "Traction, reduction and apposition": Traction opens the overriding ends, reduction realigns them and apposition corrects the rest, all held by small splints, a fixation first devised in China. "The eight methods for sinew injury": His eight sinew methods come from the Liu Shoushan line, and he always paired manual treatment with differentiated herbal formulas. "Breaking, moving and tonifying in stages": Drug treatment moves in three stages — expel stasis, activate blood, then strengthen the kidney — alongside eight manual methods for reduction. "Adjusting the small splints": Splints are shaped to site and displacement and loosened as swelling subsides, keeping fixation and movement together.

03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status

In 2025, Zhu Liguo was announced in the sixth batch of national representative bearers for TCM Bone-setting Therapy, with China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences as the declared area. Within the documented safeguarding record of TCM Bone-setting Therapy in China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences: The project was inscribed in the national inventory in 2006 (batch 1), with China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences as its declared area, and Zhongguozhongyike College Wangjing 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. Zhuliguo (China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences) · China ICH Official Project Archive
2. Zhuliguo · China ICH Official Archive