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On the day of the winter solstice, the sacrifice of the gods and farmers, the 70 years of Fupai Ejiao have been passed down from generation to generation

author:Jinan Times - New Yellow River
On the day of the winter solstice, the sacrifice of the gods and farmers, the 70 years of Fupai Ejiao have been passed down from generation to generation

Worship shennong, worship the master and worship the oral transmission of tea, Kaifeng Gu'a well water and Wolf Creek water water... On December 22, it was the winter solstice of another year. The grand event of "inheriting the spirit of the millennium intangible cultural heritage and carrying forward the Chinese ejiao culture", the China Ejiao Nourishing Health Culture Festival and the 70th Shennong Worship Ceremony of Fupai Ejiao were held in the thousand-year-old town of Pingyin County, Dong'a Town, Fupai Ejiao Shennong Square.

On the day of the winter solstice, the sacrifice of the gods and farmers, the 70 years of Fupai Ejiao have been passed down from generation to generation

Every year on the winter solstice, Fupai Ejiao holds a ceremony to worship the gods and farmers, and once insisted on it for 70 years. Although the weather is still cold, it has not affected the enthusiasm and piety of Fujiao people in the slightest, the ancient traditional cultural rituals, the traditional inheritance system of "passing on by words, teaching by example, mentoring apprentices, and passing on from generation to generation", not only the technology that has been passed down, but more importantly, the ultimate pursuit of quality and the spirit of study of technology.

This time, the Fupai Ejiao AI Empowerment Wisdom Intangible Cultural Heritage Project, which represents the most cutting-edge technology of the ejiao industry, makes this event more meaningful in the new era, and also brings a brighter direction for traditional Chinese medicine to move towards "Chinese intelligent manufacturing".

The original origin of ejiao culture can be traced

"Shennong's one vein" is passed down from generation to generation

Ejiao is a bright pearl in the treasure house of traditional Chinese medicine resources, the egretweet of chinese medicine "Shennong Materia Medica" lists ejiao as the top product, and Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" contains: "Ejiao, the upper product of this sutra, out of Dong'a, so the name Ejiao." "During the Ming Dynasty, the ancient Dong'a refers to dong'a town located in Pingyin County, and the history of dong'a town's production of ejiao has been more than 5,000 years. In the production process of more than 5,000 years, after several generations of doctors and pharmacologists of the painstaking research and practice, constantly give up their dregs, take its essence, has undergone many reforms, the production process is improving day by day, the quality of products continues to rise, for the health of the people has made contributions, and in the late Qing Dynasty, the ejiao produced in Dong'a Town has even been favored by the royal family.

On the day of the winter solstice, the sacrifice of the gods and farmers, the 70 years of Fupai Ejiao have been passed down from generation to generation

The worship of Shennong has a long history. Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs to protect the health of the people, and was revered as the "Medicine King" and "Ceres God". Ejiao technology is the inheritance of Shennong alchemy, Dong'a Town is also known as "Valley City", according to legend, this place is rich in grain in ancient times, Shennong's taste of five grains, making Ejiao here, so it is named "Valley City", known as "the source of Ejiao". Therefore, fupai ejiao, the authentic ejiao inheritor located in Dong'a Town, has always regarded Shennong as the ancestor, and the tradition of worshipping Shennong's rubber on the winter solstice day continues to this day.

Oral ingenuity is passed down

The source of water is remembered from generation to generation

Purify your hands, put on incense, worship on the altar, read the altar texts... The traditional cultural ceremony of the millennium was displayed one by one, and Yang Fu'an, the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage, the general person in charge of the Fupai Ejiao AI Empowerment Wisdom Intangible Cultural Heritage Project, the secretary of the Party Committee and the chairman of the Board of Directors of Fujiao Group, led the non-genetic inheritors to pass on the torch and jointly ignite the holy flame of gold pot and silver shovel.

On the day of the winter solstice, the sacrifice of the gods and farmers, the 70 years of Fupai Ejiao have been passed down from generation to generation

At the scene 5, the intangible cultural heritage craftsmen were taught a ceremony. The apprentice salutes tea to the master, the master teaches the apprentice the skill, and the master and the apprentice jointly swear an oath to pass on the intangible cultural heritage skills and the spirit of the craftsman from generation to generation. Intangible cultural heritage skills and craftsman spirit are inseparable from inheritance, and skills are passed down from hand to hand, and oral teaching is endless.

On the day of the winter solstice, the sacrifice of the gods and farmers, the 70 years of Fupai Ejiao have been passed down from generation to generation

Over the past 70 years, the worship of Shennong ceremony, in the Shennong lineage, the authentic ejiao lineage - Fupai Ejiao has been well inherited and carried forward, Fupai Ejiao has always been adhering to the scientific spirit of Seeking Truth from Facts of Shennong tasting hundreds of herbs, for the health of the people at the expense of self-sacrifice of the broad mind, in the promotion of Chinese medicine Ejiao culture, innovative Ejiao production technology on the road, tirelessly exploring, the millennium intangible heritage project Ejiao production technology from generation to generation, so that Ejiao, a treasure of Chinese medicine to benefit the health of more people.

The day of the winter solstice is also the time when the ancients began to boil the glue every year. Water extraction, glue boiling, construction started, the event site, Fupai Ejiao traditional winter solstice boiling gum opening ceremony also began as scheduled.

On the day of the winter solstice, the sacrifice of the gods and farmers, the 70 years of Fupai Ejiao have been passed down from generation to generation

"Winter solstice health take water to boil good glue" is the tradition of health culture, water refers to the ancient A well water, Langxi River water, of which, according to the old "Dong'a County Chronicle" record, the county south three miles, there are springs, after the well, that is, the ancient A well in the current Dong'a town. Water is the soul of ejiao, the winter solstice opens the Langxi River, the ancient Ajing, with the yin and yang water boiling glue to ensure high-quality ejiao. Among them, the water of the ancient Ajing is yin, the water of the Langxi River is yang, the water of the ancient Ajing will filter the fat layer and the stratum corneum in the donkey skin, so that the donkey skin returns to the pure original ecology, and the wolf creek river water is rich in minerals, so that the ejiao is not soft in summer, not hard in winter, and the nutrients are more easily absorbed by the human body.

On the day of the winter solstice, the sacrifice of the gods and farmers, the 70 years of Fupai Ejiao have been passed down from generation to generation

Fupai Ejiao Zhen harvested exclusive Ajing Wolf Creek river water, extracted donkey skins such as Shi'er Mountain, and mastered 2500 years of ancient method boiling, these three unique advantages, any other enterprise can not replicate. "Water, skin and technology" complement each other and fundamentally ensure the excellent quality of Fupai Ejiao.

100 years ago" "Expo Players"

Fupai Ejiao won the "Panama Gold Award"

In the honor display session of the scene, a medal shone brightly, this is 1915, Fupai Ejiao as a royal tribute to participate in the Panama International Exposition, the exhibition in the China Pavilion made it the focus of world attention, and aroused heated discussion in the media. Fupai Ejiao represents traditional Chinese medicine, and since then it has stepped out of the country and gone to the world.

On the day of the winter solstice, the sacrifice of the gods and farmers, the 70 years of Fupai Ejiao have been passed down from generation to generation

In 1915, as the first exhibitor of the International Exposition, China made its first public appearance on the world stage, and achieved results that attracted the world's attention. In the final judging of the Panama International Exposition, the medals finally won by Chinese exhibitors were the first among the 31 participating countries. Fupai Ejiao on behalf of china's ejiao exhibits to participate in the exhibition, according to various historical data, the only gold medal in the traditional Chinese medicine category of this exhibition was won by Fupai Ejiao. As a representative of traditional Chinese medicine, to this day, overseas Chinese only recognize the fu brand.

Adhering to the ancestral essence

Promote the treasures of Chinese medicine

Inheriting the essence, Shouzheng innovation is the evergreen way of the foundation of China's time-honored Fupai Ejiao, which has been passed down from generation to generation, and the worship of teachers and tea is a witness to the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage skills.

Before the liberation, the ejiao inheritors would feast on the teachers on the winter solstice, and after the liberation, this tradition was continued. In the annual event, Yang Fu'an visits the home of Deng Shixiang, the fifth generation of deng fa, the master of the Tang Shu De Tang Hall, and although Mr. Deng has passed away this year, he still leads the inheritors to serve tea to the master and mother and listen to the teachings. Mrs. Deng urged the people of Fujiao to continue to abide by the ancestral precept of "Virtue and Blessing", really do high-quality ejiao, and pass on the honors such as the royal tribute glue quality and the Panama Gold Medal carried by fupai ejiao from generation to generation.

AI empowers intangible cultural heritage projects

Modern technology helps pilotage

In the new era, modern science and technology has made Fupai Ejiao plug in the wings and move from "Made in China" to "Made in China". Under the background of the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, it integrates modern scientific and technological civilization, carries out all intelligent and scientific and technological upgrades on the basis of traditional processes, and innovates a large scientific research system under the internet + new normal: to comprehensively internationalize scientific research and innovation, build a "three-dimensional, large-depth" scientific research system, empower traditional production processes with scientific and technological innovation, and make the traditional ejiao industry move towards a new era.

On the day of the winter solstice, the sacrifice of the gods and farmers, the 70 years of Fupai Ejiao have been passed down from generation to generation

In the 2019 Shandong Provincial Key R&D Plan announced by the Department of Science and Technology of Shandong Province, the project of "Excavation and Intelligent Application of Traditional Ejiao Production Based on Big Data and Cyber-physical System" declared by Fupai Ejiao has won the first batch of major scientific and technological innovation projects to compete for the best and obtained 12 million yuan of special financial support. The project has changed the dependence on the experience of technicians in the key process of Fupai Ejiao, so that ejiao production has crossed the traditional automation, synchronously built intelligent factories, and realized the symbiosis of modern intelligent production and traditional intangible cultural heritage. Since then, the intangible cultural heritage skills passed down for thousands of years will be passed on by AI and there is no risk of being lost.

At this event, the "Fupai Ejiao AI Empowerment Wisdom Intangible Cultural Heritage Project" was also officially launched. This indicates that on the stage full of science and technology in the future, Fupai Ejiao is actively pioneering and innovating, empowering traditional intangible cultural heritage crafts with science and technology, leading the world with Chinese wisdom, and letting China's intangible cultural heritage represented by millennium production techniques go to the world with its head held high.

▌Source: Jinan Times And New Times reporter Zhang Lijuan

▌ Editor: Shanshan Zhao Proofreader: Li Shangyong

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