Guoyi Town

Guoyi Town

Guoyi Town is located in Getang Village, Taiping Town, Conghua District, Guangzhou. It features three main components: the "Lingnan Chinese Herbal Medicine Culture Expo Park," the "Guangdong Malu Mountain Southern Medicine Forest Park" (under construction), and the "Lingnan Folk Culture and Homestay Village" (under construction).

Themed around promoting the history and culture of traditional Chinese medicine, it has been designated as a National Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Education and Promotion Base. The town offers various cultural and landscape sites related to TCM, providing visitors with opportunities for sightseeing, experiencing, and learning. These include: the Chinese Herbal Medicine History Relief Gallery (which on November 26, 2017, earned the Guinness World Record for the "Longest Sandstone Deep Relief," making it the world’s longest relief depicting the history of TCM), the Guoyi Garden, the Baicao Garden, the Four Seasons Herbal Flower Sea, the Tropic of Cancer Ten-Mile Health Corridor, the Sinology and Guoyi Avenue, the Chinese Herbal Seedling Breeding Base, and the Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Expo Center.

Chinese Herbal Medicine History Relief Gallery

The content of the gallery is based on historical materials such as "Records of the Grand Historian," "Cihai," "General History of Chinese Medicine," and "History of Chinese Medicine." It has been reviewed and revised by over ten experts in the history of TCM. By integrating the background and environment of events and figures, the continuity and transitions of narrative plots, the free switching of perspectives across different times and spaces, and the interweaving and overlapping of complex elements, the gallery highlights key moments in the history of TCM culture.

The Guoyi Garden is a TCM-themed park that combines leisure tourism with science education. It is divided into zones based on the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) from TCM philosophy. In the human body, the Five Elements correspond to the internal organs, each associated with specific qualities. Similarly, the properties and meridian tropism of Chinese herbs also align with the Five Elements. Therefore, over 200 types of southern medicinal herbs are planted according to their Five Element attributes, complemented by carefully placed TCM-themed sculptures. This integrates TCM culture organically into the landscape, showcasing its cultural richness and natural charm, while creating an immersive TCM atmosphere and a beautiful park environment for visitors.

The Baicao Garden is a TCM herb-themed garden that classifies plants by their functions, showcasing representative medicinal species to highlight their ecological traits and therapeutic values, thereby expanding understanding of herbal medicine culture. The garden consists of a Herbal Tea Garden, Medicinal Vegetable Garden, Aromatic Garden, Skincare Garden, Toxic Herb Garden, Artemisia Annua Garden, and a Lingnan Medicinal Plant Garden, cultivating over 1,300 varieties of southern medicinal plants.

The Four Seasons Herbal Flower Sea is divided into four valleys: the Bluebell Valley, Magnolia Valley, Cherry Blossom Valley, and Peach Blossom Valley, covering a total area of 1,000 acres atop the Chinese Herbal Medicine History Relief Gallery. It features plant varieties such as red-flowered golden rain tree, yellow-flowered golden rain tree, Hong Kong orchid tree, magnolia, cherry blossom, peach blossom, bougainvillea, and other herbal ground covers. The flower sea offers blooming flowers year-round, fully displaying Guangzhou’s reputation as the “City of Flowers.”

The Lingnan Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Museum exhibition area houses over 2,500 herbal specimens collected from across China, including more than 1,700 pressed herbarium specimens, 422 immersed specimens, over 350 crude herbal medicine specimens, and over 90 mineral specimens used in TCM.

The Lingnan Chinese Herbal Seedling Breeding Base has collected over 1,300 varieties of southern medicinal plants through field collection and material exchanges, which are displayed for science education. Currently, about 200 species with distinctive Lingnan characteristics, high horticultural value, or rarity are selected for propagation.

The Traditional Chinese Medicine Processing Experience Hall spans over 200 square meters and serves both educational and hands-on experience purposes, accommodating up to 100 participants at a time. It showcases the development and functional characteristics of TCM processing through图文 sections on topics such as "The Origins of TCM Processing," "The Development of TCM Processing," "The Principles of TCM Processing," and "The Objectives of TCM Processing," along with the operational procedures of various processing methods. Based on three classic TCM processing texts—《Leigong Paozhi Lun》 (Lei Gong’s Treatise on Processing), 《Paozhi Yao》(Processing Essentials), and 《Xiushi Zhinan》 (Guide to Processing)—the hall features specialized experience zones for different processing techniques, including purification, cutting, stir-frying (light fry, char fry, carbonized fry, auxiliary stir-fry), roasting (wine roast, vinegar roast, salt roast, ginger roast, honey roast, oil roast), calcining (open calcining, quench-calcining, lidded pot calcining), and steaming-boiling-blanching methods.

Getang Village: Getang Village is located in the northern part of Taiping Town, with National Highway 105 and the Liuxi River running through it. The village has a population of 1,344 and 320 households, comprising 9 economic cooperatives. The total area is approximately 29,000 acres, including 730 acres of arable land.

The Getang Village Committee is 10 kilometers from the city center and about 10 kilometers from Taiping Market Town. Situated in a hilly area, it has relatively weak geographical advantages. The Committee actively promotes collective economic development. Through years of exploration, it has established a development model focused on growing lychee and longan, as well as cultivating rice and peanuts in paddy fields. … Getang Village detailed information++