Zhou Jihui, Yao ethnic group , was born in October 1959 in Pingyuan Village, Xinhua Township, Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County, Hezhou City, Guangxi. With a technical secondary school education, he is now a gold medal physiotherapist in the Chinese Medical Hall of Yao Hospital in Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi, and the chief Yao medical silver therapy massage expert.
Living environment
Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County is located in the northeast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is located between the Du Pang and Meng Zhu ridges at the junction of the three provinces of Hunan, Guangxi and Guangdong. The beautiful and natural Yaoshan Fuchuan is the origin of Yao medicine. An important place of origin, after thousands of years of inheritance, the Yao people have mastered a Yao medicine system, among which Yao medicine massage is one of the widely spread medical techniques.
Inheritance genealogy
I was born in a family of Yao medicine, and the Yao Tui technique has been passed down from my ancestors. I have been influenced by the family's medical style since I was a child. It has been influenced by my ears and eyes, and I can give massage at the age of eight. Now I am the 24th practitioner of "Zhou Yao Tui Rolling Egg Therapy" From generation to generation.
Learning process
I participated in the county minority barefoot doctor training class in 1976. After graduation, I returned to the brigade health center to serve as a brigade barefoot doctor. After 1980, I studied hard and practiced hard, buying and borrowing Chinese medicine books on massage to study on my own, combined with Yao Tui, and equipped with Yao medicine packs. Later, he participated in the construction of the Yellow River Super Bridge on the Fengzhun Railway and used medical science to clear and block leaks of the temporary No. 1 buttress. He won the first prize for rationalization suggestions and the Bureau's special prize. His deeds were published in Workers' Daily and other newspapers.
The silver porcelain egg push therapy project of the Fuchuan Yao people has been approved by the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the 24th generation of intangible cultural heritage inheritors.
Why was it applied for World Heritage
First of all, the promotion of medical skills is to cure diseases and save people. This is fundamental. Yao medicine massage has excellent curative effects. Secondly, Yao medicine massage is a medical technology summarized by the Yao people in their long-term life. As a Yao doctor, I hope that Inherit and carry forward Yao medicine massage.
Thirdly, Yao medicine is part of the traditional Chinese medicine culture. It is also the expectation of the people of Yao Township to promote the Yao medicine massage theory and make it an intangible cultural heritage item and integrate it into the traditional Chinese medicine culture.
Fourth, in April 2019, "Yao Tui Rolling Egg Therapy" was successfully declared as the third batch of county-level intangible cultural heritage in Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County. As a representative figure of Yao medicine massage, it is also my mission to apply for this municipal intangible cultural heritage project.
Instruction and transfer of skills
In 1998, I went home to visit relatives and taught the Yao Tui technique to Zhou Jiyu, a rural doctor.
In 2003, I gradually taught my wife and sister the mature Yaotui techniques and theories.
In 2016, he received six apprentices from the Jianyu Bioelectric Physiotherapy Center in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, and learned the Yaotui technique from them.
was hired as a gold medal physiotherapist at the Guoyi Hall of Yao Medical Hospital in Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi in 2017. During this period, a total of 32 physiotherapists were trained to learn Yao Tui techniques.
