On December 22,
the 2nd Hongjitang Ejiao Culture Festival opened at Linuo Campus. The festival
is especially interesting to TCM fans from all over the world and will last till
March 3, 2018. On the opening day, more than 500 visitors, including business
partners, media representatives and ordinary citizens, attended the opening
ceremony, and several rites were performed, including fetching water from the
Jade Spring on the winter solstice; worshiping Yue Jingyu, founder of
Hongjitang; getting fire at the Jade Spring Pavilion and starting the
nine-day-and-night purification and extraction process of Ejiao preparation.
During the
festival, visitors can make a tour in Hongjitang TCM Cultural Park where they
can get a glimpse of the development of traditional Chinese medicine through the
reliefs on the TCM cultural wall and have the opportunity to observe manual
preparation of Ejiao with the gold cauldron and silver turner at close range.
And TCM doctors will provide consultation service concerning daily health care
on site. Visitors can also enjoy folk performance like lion dance,
paper-cutting, dough sculpture, straw weaving and cross talks on the campus.