Eight generations of legacy

Cultural Heritage

Skill inheritance

practice the “Liuyu” culture.

In 1773, Kang Yusheng, a native of Yuan Suli, Henan Province (now Kangdian Town, Gongyi City, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province) and the tenth descendant of the Kang family in Heluo Area, crossed the Yellow River and moved his family to Leng Village, southwest of Huaiqing Prefecture (now Leng Village, southwest of Wen County, Henan Province), where he began to engage in the cultivation and processing trade of Huaiyao.

Huaishantang has been passed down for more than 240 years - so far through eight generations of the Kang family - and has not only broken new ground in its products, but also honoured its ancestral motto of being sincere and leaving a legacy to benefit the people, thus becoming a contemporary representative of Huai medicine and Huai medicine culture.

practice the “Liuyu” culture.

Kang Mingxuan made outstanding contributions to the inheritance and development of the planting and processing of four major Huaiqing medicines. As early as in 2000, he began to do a comprehensive and in-depth research on the planting, processing, identification, use for health care of Haiqing medicines, as well as the types, quantity, current situation and inheriting of the intangible cultural heritage about such medicines, and established archives for them.

In the 38th year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1773 AD), Kang Yusheng, a native of former Suri (now Kangdian Town, Gongyi City, Zhengzhou) in Henan Province and the tenth descendant of the Heluo Kang’s family, admiring the reputation of Huai medicine, crossed the Yellow River and removed to the Leng Village in the southwest of Huaiqing Prefecture (now the Leng Village in the southwest of Wenxian County, Henan Province), began to engage in planting, processing and trade of Huai medicine, and established firm titled "Huaishantang".

Heritage of Huai medicine and the ten skills of the Kang family

Kang Mingxuan made outstanding contributions to the inheritance and development of the planting and processing of four major Huaiqing medicines. As early as in 2000, he began to do a comprehensive and in-depth research on the planting, processing, identification, use for health care of Haiqing medicines, as well as the types, quantity, current situation and inheriting of the intangible cultural heritage about such medicines, and established archives for them.

He successively wrote papers and works such as Huai Chrysanthemum Planting Technology and Application, Tiegun Huai Yam Planting Technology and Application, and The Necessity of Cultural Marketing of Huai Medicine Enterprises. He also established a teaching base, which was awarded the "intangible cultural heritage research demonstration base and production protection demonstration base".