Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Culture Wall

The core logic of building a traditional Chinese medicine health culture wall is never to pile up classics, post terminology, or create a "metaphysics bulletin board" that ordinary people can't understand. It is to leave a suitable content entry for audiences with different cognitions while maintaining the professional bottom line. It must not only be able to withstand mistakes from people in the industry, but also make aunts who dance square dances, office workers who stay up late, and mothers who pick up their babies from school be willing to stop and take a second look when they pass by.

Two years ago, when we were helping to build a cultural wall for a community health station, we went through a big hole. We asked students from the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital to help create the first edition. The wall was filled with the original text of the "Huangdi Neijing", the yin and yang and the five elements, and the differentiation standards of the nine constitutions. The source of each term was marked. We asked academic teachers to check it, and they patted their chests and said it was not wrong at all. As a result, I hung up for a week. Except for two retired old Chinese medicine doctors who occasionally came over to read a few sentences, no one else even looked at me. An aunt who was picking up her grandson put it bluntly: "I know all the words. It's like reading a book from heaven. After reading it, I don't know how I can use it." ”

Nowadays, the industry is actually quite quarrelsome about the standards of health culture walls. One group is a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine with a serious academic background. They feel that the cultural wall must be rigorous. Even if no one reads it, the content cannot be changed randomly, for fear of spreading wrong knowledge and misleading people. This is really not unfounded. I have been to a street health center before, and it was directly written on the cultural wall that "drinking ginger water can cure all diseases." The other group is the staff who work in community operations. They think that whether something is rigorous or not, the first thing is to attract people to read. They wish they could write titles such as "One trick to cure insomnia" and "Lower blood pressure in three days" all over the wall, so as to attract people first. Both sides have their own reasons, and they often get angry when they meet.

The version we revised later did not have any unified layout at all, and the needs of both ends were catered for. The most conspicuous golden area in the middle is filled with real cases of acquaintances in the community: the first one is a photo of Aunt Zhang who lives in Building 3 playing Baduanjin, and the following is accompanied by her own vernacular: "20 minutes a day, persist for 3 years, and the old waist protrusion has never happened again." , in the Baduanjin action diagram attached next to it, the annotations for each action are not terminology. They just say "holding the triple burner of heaven with both hands - just like a big waist" and "opening the bow from left to right like shooting a vulture - just like the posture of drawing a bow". Even the elderly with little literacy can understand it.

Next to it is the content that young people like to watch. The three most common situations are listed: those who often stay up late, those who have diarrhea after eating cold drinks, and those who often get angry and have sore throats. Each tea substitute recipe that directly corresponds to the same source of medicine and food contains two or three ingredients, which can be bought in pharmacies. The following is specially marked "If it doesn't work, see a doctor, don't try it blindly" to avoid people trying blindly. The area for the elderly at the bottom is directly marked with white words on a red background, "Don't stop taking antihypertensive and antihyperglycemic drugs. Walking for 40 minutes after meals is better than any health supplement." There is also a walking step reference for different age groups next to it to remind the elderly not to hurt their knees by walking too much just to increase the number of steps.

As for the professional content required by the academics, we have placed them all on the corners of both sides of the wall. Excerpts from the original text of the "Huangdi Neijing", key points of syndrome differentiation of the nine constitutions, and accurate location maps of commonly used acupuncture points are all there. A QR code is posted next to it, which reads "If you want to learn more, scan the code to sign up for Dr. Li's free health class." This not only maintains the professional bottom line, but also does not crowd out the space for ordinary people to see practical content.

After the reform was completed, some old scholars came to see you, saying that you had made Chinese medicine so vulgar, did you not respect traditional culture? Last month I talked about this matter with a retired professor of the Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine. The old man put it very clearly: "TCM is originally the experience accumulated by our ancestors who thought about how to live a good life. If you enshrine it on the altar so that the common people cannot touch or use it, then you are really ruining a good thing. ”

Last week I went to do some errands in the community and passed by that wall. I saw a few girls in school uniforms taking photos at the tea table, saying they wanted to show their mothers who often stayed up late. Several aunts were gesturing at the Baduanjin pictures. Next to them, an old Chinese medicine doctor was talking to a young man with acne on his face about the precautions for a hot and humid body. The paint on the wall has peeled off a bit due to the sun, and the characters in places that are often touched are polished and shiny - this is much more decent than those cultural walls that are exquisitely and neatly made, but no one can even look close.