Kang Mingxuan, an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, possesses ambitions and dreams of making intangible cultural heritage flourish!

Kang Mingxuan, the eighth generation inheritor of Huaishantang and the 18th generation descendant of the Kang Baiwan family, interprets his name as "a man who works day and night for human health", and sticks to it as his life orientation. He has been engaged in the health industry for 30 years, and he will work for another 30 years or 50 years.

Introduction to Kang Mingxuan:　　

Born in a Huai merchant family, the eighteenth generation descendant of the Kang Baiwan family

Provincial representative inheritor of National intangible cultural heritage project( planting and processing of four major Huaiqing medicines)

Vice president of the Professional Committee of Health for the Elderly of the China National Health Association

Vice president of Science and Technology Innovation Branch of Chinese Aging Well Association

Vice president of the Spleen and Stomach Health Branch of Guangdong Health Association

Visiting Professor of the Business School of the Chinese Academy of Management Sciences and member of Great Power Pharmaceutical Think Tank

Senior researcher of Institute of Enterprise Management Innovation, Chinese Academy of Management Sciences

Disciple of Chinese medicine master Li Diangui

Founding president of Henan Time-honored Brands Association

Founder of Tiegun yam

Outstanding Entrepreneur of Agricultural Industrialization in Henan Province

Prominent Figure in the Pharmaceutical Industry of Henan Province

Leader of development of traditional Chinese medicine industry of the top 10 counties in Henan Province in 2020

Former president, and current vice president of Jiaozuo City Association of Huai-Yao

President of Huaishantang Biotechnology Co., Ltd

1. Ambitions of Huai medicine Family

Kang Mingxuan, male, born in October 1969, in Southwest Leng Village, Beileng Township, Wenxian County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province. Currently, he acts as the president of Huaishantang Biotechnology Co., Ltd., the representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage project in Henan Province, and the vice president of Jiaozuo City Association of Huai-yao. He is the 18th generation descendant of the Kang family in Heluo Area and the 8th generation inheritor of Huaishantang.

Born in a family engaged in the processing of Huai medicines, Kang Mingxuan has been exposed to the planting and processing of Huai medicines since childhood, and has special feelings about such techniques. In 1981, when he was in middle school, he learned the planting and processing skills of Huai medicines from his father in his spare time. After several years of hard work, he had mastered the planting and processing skills of Huai medicines by the end of the 1990s.

As early as 1998, Kang Mingxuan began to study the planting, processing, identification, use for health care and other aspects of the four major Huaiqing medicines, and established the research base of the four major Huaiqing medicines. He widely collected the related items of the four major Huaiqing medicines as the basic display content of the intangible cultural heritage Museum of the four major Huaiqing medicines, and played a key role in communication, education and academic researches about these medicines. These basic works have improved the protection of the four major Huaiqing medicines, so that the endangered and important four major Huaiqing medicines and a group of inheritors have been effectively protected. Moreover, the awareness of cultural heritage protection in the whole society has been continuously improved.

The materials related to the planting and processing techniques of traditional Chinese medicines preserved by Kang Mingxuan include:

1) Huai yam processing tool including sharpening knives, washboard, plucking board, roof board and pressure apparatus;

2) A yam scale with a history of a hundred years and weighing capacity of 150 jin (about 75 kg) was inlaid with the old firm name of Kangmingxuan’s ancestors;

3) Baskets, vats, boxes and other medicine containers that are essential for traditional processing methods.

Kang Mingxuan's preserved materials on Huaiyao cultivation and processing techniques include:

2) Photos and videos of leaders at all levels inspecting Huaiyao base and enterprises;

3) Inscriptions and inscriptions by leaders at all levels concerned about the development of Huaiyao;

4) The text of the "National Standards for the Four Major Huai Medicines of Geographical Indications Products" that he participated in compiling;

5) Videos reflecting the traditional planting and processing techniques of the four major Huaiyao medicines;

6) Videos embodying the improved planting and processing techniques of the four major Huaiyao herbs.

When studying the four major Huai medicines, he found that the four major Huai medicines not only have rich planting and processing skills, but also have formed a unique Huai medicine culture, such as planting culture, processing culture, trade culture, and food culture. He conducted research on the types, quantities, status quo, and inheritors of the four major Huaiyao intangible cultural heritage, established archives, and provided decision-making basis for the protection of the four major Huaiyao intangible cultural heritage. In order to inherit and impart the intangible culture of the four major Huai Yao medicines, he has successively compiled papers and works such as "Huai Chrysanthemum Planting Technology and Application", "Tie Bang Huai Shan Yao Planting Technology and Application", and "The Necessity of Huai Yao Enterprises Doing a Good Job in Cultural Marketing". He has established a imparting base, which has been awarded the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Demonstration Base and Productive Protection Demonstration Base" by the Jiaozuo Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center.

2、 Inheritance and innovation of planting and processing technology

In his research, Kang Mingxuan found that the traditional way of planting yams takes time and effort to collect and dig, and causes great harm to the body. The traditional "four major Huai Yao planting and processing" process method is characterized by purely manual work, with prominent problems such as high workload and low efficiency, making it difficult to achieve standardization and large-scale promotion. Under the mechanized and modern production mode, the traditional "four major Huai medicine planting and processing" process urgently needs new innovation and breakthrough. After years of research and improvement, and on the basis of inheriting tradition, Kang Mingxuan's Huaiyao planting and processing techniques have the characteristics of being scientific, standardized, transforming the past into the present, and bringing forth the new. The Huaiyao planting technology developed and improved by Kang Mingxuan is suitable for large-scale mechanical operations. It not only improves labor efficiency during planting, but also reduces physical consumption during harvest, while avoiding the physical damage caused by traditional planting methods to harvesters during harvest. Its planting technology has been greatly welcomed by pharmaceutical farmers and has been promoted. The research and improvement of the Huaiyao processing technology have not only lost the meaning and efficacy of ancient methods, but also more in line with the requirements of modern society for environmental protection and physical health. Kang Mingxuan's skills with the characteristics of science, standardization, transforming the past into the present, and introducing new ideas are well reflected in the preparation of the "National Standards for the Four Major Huai Medicines of Geographical Indications Products".

On the basis of inheriting ancient methods, Kang Mingxuan focuses on scientific research and innovation of yam processing technology, and many innovative processes and methods have obtained national invention patents.

List of National Invention Patents for Yam Processing Technology Obtained by Kang Mingxuan