In the interactive dispensing area, visitors can weigh their own herbs with sachets.
Visitors are curious in front of the device that smells the herbs.
Large herbal tea copper pot in the prologue hall
A bird's nest cave is simulated in the exhibition hall for visitors to climb.
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Is there a museum where you can feel the "smell"?
There really is.
In the Xiangxue Pharmaceutical Factory area of Science City of Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, there is a "Guangdong Herbal Tea Museum". Here, you can learn about Chinese traditional Chinese medicine culture and the history of Lingnan herbal tea, you can learn about medicinal herbs through different smells, you can also make an exclusive sachet by yourself, and you can also feel the taste of various unique plants left at your fingertips in the outdoor herbal garden.
Text/Photo: Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Bu Songzhu
Guangdong Herbal Tea Museum
Location: Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone Science City Xiangxue Pharmaceutical Factory
Transportation: Jinfeng Station of Metro Line 6
Aromatic garden planted more than 300 kinds of medicinal herbs Squirrels are regular customers
From Jinfeng Station on Metro Line 6, I turned a corner along the wall of the pharmaceutical factory and soon reached the main entrance of the museum. The three-storey building is part of the entire building overlooking the "Ruyi" shape from a high place. On the side of the door are several tall lychee trees, growing leafy. Zhu Xueyi, the relevant person in charge of the museum and the corporate culture manager of Xiangxue Group, told reporters that they are all about a hundred-year-old Luogang old tree, and many old trees were affected by the development and construction of Luogang that year, so Chairman Wang Yonghui transplanted hundreds of plants to the factory area. "At that time, many people said that they could not be moved," he said, "but we hired Huanong's experts and took good care of them, and many of them survived." "These concubines laugh at the old trees scattered all over the factory area, and the fruit hanging season is like a festival in the factory area.
Opposite the main entrance, there is a 2,000-square-meter medicinal botanical garden, the Aroma Garden. More than 300 kinds of trees, herbs and vines with medicinal and ornamental value are planted in the garden, such as moringa, sandalwood, yellow pear, orange red, patchouli, nanban blue root, chrysanthemum, etc. Many of them are the raw materials used to make herbal tea. Along the path between the grass and trees, several or even a dozen kinds of plants appear in front of you at each step, who would have thought that they would normally only be able to see dried products, which is what they look like in their natural state. For small children, it is a good place to be fun and learn. The garden is frequented by squirrels from time to time. They know what fruit is ripe, better than the medicinal experts.
It's winter, and the cold air is approaching, and many of the plants and trees in the aromatic garden are no longer full of flowers and fruits, but kneading cinnamon, rubbing the herbs, those different aromas make people feel comfortable.
There is a circular area in the exhibition hall , the medicinal herb odor identification area. There are different medicinal herbs in the surrounding hundred cabinets, the middle column shows the smell of different medicinal materials, and the equipment on the table is the equipment that can smell the incense and recognize the medicine. There are 12 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines with different odors in this area, and visitors can smell the corresponding medicinal herbs by pressing the white button on the right-hand side and aiming the jet outlet at the nostrils, and then judge and identify the medicinal materials. This kind of small game looks simple, and the reporter actually operates it, only to find that one line has a line of difficulty. Some of the smells were vaguely familiar, but I couldn't remember what they were; some of the aromas, which were smelled for the first time, were difficult to identify which herbs they were. These unique smells should all be part of the "medicinal properties".
In the "Interactive Dispensing Area", a variety of health herbs are placed, full of light fragrance. This is the place where visitors can configure their own herbal tea. You can follow the prompts on the electronic screen next to you, select the herbs from the hundred cabinets to configure herbal tea, the formula is Guangdong herbal tea, Shaxi herbal tea, four cold herbal tea, etc., are all daily necessities for the family, you can also use the small medicine scale to weigh the corresponding aromatic herbs and make personalized sachets.
Three units with 20 exhibition areas
Tell you bits and pieces of herbal tea
The indoor area of the museum is 1500 square meters, plus the aroma garden and other views such as the rainbow pond, the ecological fish pond, the plum pavilion and so on, for a total of about 5000 square meters. In this way, it is indeed not too big, but walking into the museum area, I really found that there is a thousand world-like grains of rice, which is very rich, and makes people feel the rich cultural atmosphere of traditional Chinese medicine. There are also temporary exhibitions here from time to time, and maybe you will have an unexpected discovery when you come here.
The museum was completed in 2008 and has been open to the public for a long time free of charge. According to the staff of the museum, if it is an individual visitor, you only need to make an appointment on the museum public number or register at the door; if it is a group, it can be made a day in advance.
The most striking of the prologue are the three sculptures. One is a cast iron medicinal mortar, one is a copper teapot, and the other is a medicinal mill. The indoor part of the museum contains three major units of "Region, History", "Inheritance and Traceability" and "Tianren Harmony", and sets up two major themes of traditional Chinese medicine and herbal tea culture and fun interaction, with a total of 20 exhibition areas, including the herbal tea origin display area, the herbal tea development process exhibition area, the herbal tea heritage application process exhibition area, the modern herbal tea exhibition area, the Lingnan culture exhibition area, the equipment and precious medicinal materials display area, the dispensing area, the medicinal material odor identification area, the health sports experience area, etc.
Herbal tea is really familiar to Cantonese people. The herbal tea shops all over the streets and alleys, whether in the hot summer or when the body is sick, are like a "source of strength", which can make people feel more at ease. But if you really want to talk about herbal tea one is one or two, few people can do it. The history of Lingnan herbal tea in the museum begins in 306 AD. At that time, Ge Hongnan, a Taoist physician of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, came to Lingnan and was able to carefully study various medicines in Lingnan. He once wrote the famous "Elbow Reserve Emergency Formula", focusing on the prevention and treatment of diseases for ordinary people with local medicinal materials and hand-held medicinal materials. This concept of attaching importance to the "grass and trees around us" is one of the principles followed by traditional Chinese medicine and the development of herbal tea. For example, the "Shangqing Drink" herbal tea, which is an important exhibit in the museum, is said to be related to the inspiration given to the monks by the fruit of Kwangko-ji Temple falling into the well.
The exhibition hall displays the inheritance lineage of several major herbal teas in Lingnan, among which "Shangqing Drinking Herbal Tea" has been passed down to the fourth generation of Wang Yonghui, who is also the national inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage project "Herbal Tea". On May 25, 2006, 54 secret recipes and terms owned by 21 herbal tea manufacturers in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao were approved by the State Council to enter the first batch of national "intangible cultural heritage". The market activity of herbal tea has increased significantly. In 2005, domestic herbal tea beverages were less than 1 million tons; in 2010, it reached 25 million tons, surpassing Coca-Cola's global sales. Herbal tea from a corner of Lingnan to the whole country and the world. Herbal tea, as the second type of plant beverage in soft drinks, is the first to form a separate category in the world in nearly 60 years, and has been internationally recognized.
You can read the electronic version of the Chinese Medicine Book
You can also climb rocks to pick "bird's nest"
In the museum, you can see a strange book - "Supplement lei gong concocted handbook", the original is now in the library of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, for the survival of the only book, the museum displayed is its electronic reading version. Just move your hand in front of the sensor under the display and you can flip the screen like a book. Its discovery shocked the Materia Medica community, and it is the most complete surviving ancient painted Materia Medica in China. This book was created by the Ming Dynasty court painters with the "New Lei Gong Concocted Handbook", adding medicinal songs, matching the drugs with morphological diagrams and auxiliary diagrams, and painting art creation with the theme of drugs and their concoctions, more than a thousand colored medicinal pictures are used for the study of Ancient Chinese Herbal Medicine Literature, and even the study of ancient art, adding a large number of gorgeous and highly academic materials.
Also displayed in a similar way is the "Cixi Guangxu Medical Prescription Selection Instrument". The book, available in both Chinese and English, was officially published by Zhonghua Book Company in November 1981 with a circulation of 26,500 copies and sold out in less than half a year. The book records the medical prescriptions of Cixi and Guangxu, such as longevity, tonic, menstruation, internal organ meridian diseases and other prescriptions, combined with modern scientific knowledge to discuss, for the clinical treatment of various diseases, especially chronic disease conditioning, elderly disease prevention, have high practical value. Zhu Xueyi said that at present, many of the proprietary Chinese medicines produced by the group, such as heat and detoxification, cough and expectorant, and yiqi and lung clearing, are still the same as the formulas recorded in the book.
When it comes to traditional Chinese herbal medicine, it is impossible not to mention pharmaceutical utensils. Many of the utensils in the museum's collection are genuine items collected through visits, such as medicine mills, medicine buckets, medicinal mortars, and medicinal knives. Looking at them, when the brain is replenished, or even the situation of the pharmaceutical industry not long ago, people can't help but feel that it is not easy to save lives and help the injured. This is also a manifestation of the spirit of craftsmanship. These tools have now been largely replaced by machines and can only be seen in museums or on television. The exhibition hall also simulates a bird's nest cave, with swallows attached to the cave and bats lying on the ground, as if there is a cave in the sky. The rocks in the cave allow visitors to climb and experience the harvest joy of picking "bird's nests".
"Herbal tea culture is not only the culture of Guangdong people, but also the culture of Chinese", Wang Yonghui once said: "Inheriting national culture is the unshirkable responsibility of national brands and national enterprises". And this herbal tea museum is the wonderful carrier of the herbal tea culture.
【Source: Guangzhou Daily】
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