(People's Daily Health Client Reporter Zhao Yuanzhi) "This year's Chinese medicine garden party held by the school is so fun, I tasted the Chinese medicine tea, and also received the Chinese medicine sachet and bookmarks!" After the Chinese medicine garden party, Liu Yating, a second-grade primary school student, said happily that she wanted to go back to tell her grandparents about the knowledge of Chinese medicine and Chinese herbal medicine.
Chinese medicine flying flower order, Chinese herbal medicine puzzle, "lotus" you have an appointment, honeysuckle blooming...... From December 29 to 31, 2023, Poyang Street Primary School in Jiang'an District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province brought the culture of traditional Chinese medicine into the campus.
Students are playing Chinese herbal puzzles. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
In 2019, the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Promoting the Inheritance, Innovation and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine" clearly stated that the implementation of traditional Chinese medicine culture dissemination actions, the traditional Chinese medicine culture throughout the national education, primary and secondary schools to further enrich the traditional Chinese medicine culture education, so that traditional Chinese medicine has become a cultural consciousness of the masses to promote health.
The discerning medicine section at the garden party. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Starting from 2022, Poyang Street Primary School in Jiang'an District will cooperate with Wuhan Qin Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine to create the "Xinglin Nursery Project - Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture into Campus" project. Qin Yali, director of Poyang Street Primary School in Jiang'an District, who is in charge of moral education, told the reporter of the People's Daily health client that each class of the school will adopt a Chinese herbal medicine plant every semester to explore and form a class culture, and then display it separately at the end of the semester. In terms of daily curriculum setting, we also jointly carry out inclusive 4th grade dual-teacher classes with doctors from traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, such as telling students stories of traditional Chinese medicine with Chinese teachers, explaining traditional Chinese medicine weighing with math teachers, and teaching students Baduanjin with physical education teachers.
"I know that chrysanthemum tea can clear heat and detoxify, and osmanthus soaked in water can relieve cough and phlegm. At the event of tasting traditional Chinese medicine tea, Liu Haonan (pseudonym), a third-grade student, said confidently when answering the teacher's questions.
"When I grow up, I also want to become a Chinese medicine practitioner and go to a Chinese medicine university. Liu Ting (not her real name), a Year 1 student, went home and told her parents about her little dream. Traditional Chinese medicine culture has entered the classrooms of primary and secondary schools, allowing students to experience the charm of traditional Chinese medicine culture up close, and quietly sowing the seeds of traditional Chinese medicine culture in the hearts of children.
Students make their own Chinese herbal medicine heads-ups. Photo courtesy of the interviewee
"In order to inherit and respect the culture, the school has been opening the door of traditional Chinese medicine for students in a way of continuous innovation and inheritance, and leading students into the culture of traditional Chinese medicine. As educators, it is the responsibility and responsibility of teachers to pass on the culture of traditional Chinese medicine, cultivate small messengers of traditional Chinese medicine culture dissemination, and contribute to the Healthy China strategy. Cheng Yanfang, principal of Poyang Street Primary School in Jiang'an District, said.