Li Shiliang

Li Shiliang

Li Shiliang, male, Hui nationality, born in 1980 in Beijing, is the representative inheritor of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects. In 2010, he won the outstanding young inheritor award and the most beautiful Chinese handicraft award selected by UNESCO IOV.

Character experience

Influenced by his family since his childhood, Li Shiliang has a strong interest in traditional Chinese medicine and traditional medicine incense making techniques. He not only inherits the ancestors' incense recipes, but also conducts in-depth research and development on traditional medicine incense making techniques and ancient incense recipes, and develops three series of medicine incense products. The fifth generation inheritor of Chinese intangible cultural heritage traditional medicine fragrance handmade technology, founder of Beijing Yuliang handmade fragrance research studio, chairman of Hong Kong qianheng fragrance industry group and chairman of Dalian qianheng Culture Communication Co., Ltd.

In July 2008, under the inheritance of time-honored brands, qianheng Xiangye group was founded.

In July 2009, Yuliang handmade incense research studio was established

In 2009, it applied for Beijing intangible cultural heritage protection unit and was approved.

In 2009, he was invited to participate in the Shenzhen cultural fair. Since the founding of the people's Republic of China, xiangdao performance has been open to the whole country for the first time

In February 2010, he was invited to participate in "Beijing intangible cultural heritage Art Exhibition"

In June 2010, he was invited to attend the first Beijing folk art festival

In June 2010, qianheng established its first drugstore

Qianhengxiangtang was founded in June 2010

Qianheng Group Dalian flagship store was established in July 2010

In November 2010, he was invited to attend the Beijing Cultural Fair

In 2011, he won the world's "most beautiful handicraft" award and "outstanding young inheritor" award issued by the world educational, scientific and Cultural Organization (Ivo)

In 2011, he was invited to participate in "rongbaozhai cultural exchange" and the first Beijing intangible cultural heritage auction

The time-honored Beijing "Chinese medicine stack" was founded in the middle of Qing Dynasty. It was used in the folk hanging pot to help the world. Since its establishment, Zhonghua pharmacy has cooperated with Yue Congsheng, the first generation manager of Tongrentang. Tongrentang purchased a large number of medicines from Zhonghua pharmacy, including Mingmu Yanggan pill, Badu ointment, feiersan, weeping and laughing toothache, Zhonghua plaster series, and homemade fragrance. Today, the five medicinal incense preserved in Tongrentang exhibition hall are made in the Guangxu period of the Chinese medicine store, and have seals sent to other places.

Chinese medicine store, male pass prescription, female pass fragrant prescription. As the only descendant of Li Shiliang, he has the hand-made techniques of family medicine, fragrant prescription and traditional medicine. Influenced by his mother when he was young, Li Shiliang had an unusual love for the family's traditional medicine: Reciting medicine at the age of two, reciting prescriptions at the age of six, and knowing herbs at the age of ten. After retiring from the army in 1999, young Li Shi Liang formally inherited the hand-made skills of family medicine incense and ancestral incense prescriptions, and passed on the "incense" of Chinese civilization.

Chinese medicine is broad and profound, and there are many capable people. However, since the end of the Qing Dynasty, social unrest, the decline of traditional culture, the traditional Chinese incense culture gradually into the trough, has not yet recovered. The essence of medicine contains many aspects, such as the field of art, academic field of traditional Chinese medicine, traditional handicraft, Zen and so on.

As the main raw materials of medicinal fragrance are huanghuali, Chenxiang and other precious fragrant medicines, and the domestic market is uneven, Li Shiliang often visits Vietnam, Nepal and other raw material producing countries to collect spices. Beijing Yuliang handmade fragrance studio and qianheng fragrance industry group have been established successively, and the traditional medicine fragrance handmade production base has been established, which not only inherits the ancestors' fragrance prescription, but also further develops the fragrance prescription and production technology, and develops several new series of medicine fragrance products to push the medicine fragrance, an intangible cultural heritage, to the market.

Achievement and honor

1. Inheriting the traditional Chinese medicine fragrance handmade technology;

2. Declare the handmade technique of traditional Chinese medicine fragrance as Beijing intangible cultural heritage;

3. Won the "outstanding young inheritor Award" of the world organization for science, education and culture;

4. Lead the traditional medicine industry to the market;

5. To promote the traditional Chinese medicine culture;

6. Selected into the recommended list of representative inheritors of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.

7.2020 Beijing culture and tourism industry model.

8. In December 2020, he was selected into the candidate list of "person of the year of intangible cultural heritage of China" in 2020.

Review comments

Li Shiliang, who has learned the art of making incense since he was a child, has a clear pedigree. In addition to inheriting the ancestral incense prescriptions, he also collected a wide range of folk incense prescriptions. He was able to master the selection of materials, compatibility and grinding techniques of incense. In order to further improve the skill level, he went to many Chinese medicine schools at home and abroad for further study, systematically studied the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and applied it to the production of fragrant prescriptions. He has the ability of independent research, development, and extension of products, and has established the production base of medicinal fragrance. A number of national experts on traditional Chinese medicine are invited to conduct targeted professional research and guidance on the techniques, and promote the fragrance of traditional Chinese medicine in combination with health culture. Many apprentices have been recruited to learn the manufacturing skills of traditional Chinese medicine fragrance. Now most of the apprentices have been able to independently operate the ingredients selection, compatibility and grinding process of fragrance prescription. The expert group agreed to recommend it as the national representative inheritor.

Family inheritance

Chinese medicine has a long history. Since Shennong started pharmacy, it has experienced thousands of years of development and made great contributions to the survival and reproduction of the Chinese nation. As one of the methods of internal and external treatment, aromatherapy has always played a very important role. Traditional Chinese medicine fragrance is an important part of Chinese traditional culture and traditional Chinese medicine, which has a history of thousands of years. It has excellent ingredients, pays attention to conform to the time, yin and Yang and authentic origin, studies the compatibility of prescriptions, and has strict processing technology requirements. A large number of literature classics have recorded the efficacy, production skills and cultural functions of traditional Chinese medicine fragrance.

Since the early Qin Dynasty, Chinese incense has inherited China's ancient traditional culture for thousands of years. It's said that Leizu's father was sick and refused to take medicine. The filial Leizu ground the traditional Chinese medicine into powder and made it into incense. After his bedridden father smelled the medicine, it became a good story that he recovered. Curl of cigarettes, smart and elegant, on the sky, under the pleasant temperament. It can not only leisurely and study in the piano room, but also ethereal in the temple altar; it can not only observe the silent light in the quiet room, but also be happy during the banquet; it can not only calm the mind and open the mind in the empty space, but also treat diseases. Incense, in the pleasing to the heart, mobilizes the intelligence of the mind, in the tangible, invisible, between the breath, the nose, the orifices, the body and mind, and the magical effect. It is because of this understanding that the emperors and generals of all dynasties, the literati and the poets all cherish the fragrance like gold and become addicted to it.

The folk custom of using incense in China is mainly manifested in the Dragon Boat Festival of the lunar calendar. On that day, people hang sachets, wash incense soup bath, and wipe realgar wine. Due to historical reasons, this custom almost disappeared, and the fragrance of medicine was once interrupted as superstition.

Beijing's fifth generation of traditional hand-made incense technology fully adheres to the production process of Chinese incense, which has been handed down for hundreds of years among the people. The traditional medicinal incense uses pure natural, pollution-free plants, renewable precious trees and some animal incense as raw materials, which is fully in line with the modern concept of health and environmental protection. In terms of processing, it is strictly processed by hand in accordance with the ancient method. In 2009, the traditional medicinal incense production technology was improved Art has been listed in the Beijing Municipal intangible cultural heritage protection list.

Personal notes

Culture is like a furnace of sandalwood, hand-made craft, distant fragrance, natural combination and stubborn persistence...... When we look for a bit of tranquility in the noise, blend a bit of modernity in the classic, and keep a piece of ice heart in the crowd, the tolerance, charm and broadness of culture are all in our hearts.

A fire of sandalwood, a touch of smoke. It can be traced back to the pre Qin period, when the records of incense were mostly related to sacrifice, so now many people think that Chinese incense originated from sacrifice and was used in sacrifice, but people just ignore that in ancient times, Hou Xiang was more used in life, and in the Tang and Song Dynasties, it had a wide range of functions, including: room incense, smoking clothes, smoking quilt, cleaning, health care and disease treatment, etc. Public places are often set up stove incense, scholars, dignitaries and dignitaries incense is a necessary thing.

According to my observation, the market of incense now is dominated by chemical spices, which have become the main raw materials of incense. They are widely used because of their cheap price and fragrant taste. However, people do not know that long-term use of incense is harmful to the body, and it is less devout to use it to worship Buddha and ancestors. Our incense making technology, which has lasted for one hundred years, is famous for its natural materials, complicated process, pure hand-made and easy to use Over the years, it has been well received by the masses.

Since ancient times, qianheng has been adhering to the concept of "aroma nourishment". As far as the use of fragrance is concerned, it not only uses its fragrance, but also uses its health care and nourishment, thus greatly expanding the application of fragrance in daily life, and further guiding the daily use of fragrance. To taste and use fragrance, from enjoying fragrance to being full of poetry, Zen, spirituality and health. In terms of making incense, we follow the law, pay attention to the selection of medicine, production, formula, which has a lot to do with the pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine. We regard incense as the "medicine" of health preservation and nourishment, forming the tradition of "the same origin of incense and medicine". Incense is not only the most beautiful cultural experience of human beings, but also the most beautiful and exciting peak experience in human life. "Fragrance, fragrance." "The fragrance is far away." The culture of incense is a kind of art.

——Li Shiliang

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