Development History

Pingle Guo's bone setting originated in Pingle Village, Pingle Town, Mengjin County, Luoyang City in 1793, with a history of more than 220 years and has been passed down for eight generations. In 2008, "Pingle Guo's Bone Setting Method" was included in the list of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage; in 2013, "Pingle Guo's Bone Setting Method" was approved by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine as one of the first batch of the National Bone Setting Schools. In April 2019, it was approved as the second round of construction project units of the national academic school of Chinese medicine inheritance studio; in June 2019, "Pingle Guo's bone setting Method" was selected as an excellent case of national non-traditional heritage representative project protection practice by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

First generation founder.

Guo Xiangtai, the word Zhihe, was born during the Qianlong and Jiaqing Dynasties of the Qing Dynasty. He was a good student since his childhood and devoted himself to the art of bone setting medicine. Since its establishment, he has become famous in his hometown for his exquisite medical skills and noble medical ethics, and has established the ancestral motto of "accepting all those who come to us for medical treatment, regardless of royalty and nobility or beggars".

The second generation of inheritors.

Guo Shuxin, character Dunfu (1820-1889), founded the century-old business "Yiyuantang" and created the "Guo's Family Motto", which has been passed down from generation to generation.

In the first year of Guangxu, Zuo Zongtang led a western expedition to recover Xinjiang, and on his way to Xinjiang, he accidentally fell off his horse and broke a bone. After examining Zuo Zongtang's condition, Guo Shuxin gave him a manual reset, supplemented by ancestral medicine, which was used internally and externally. Later, Zuo Zongtang successfully recaptured Xinjiang, and the Guo family's fame increased greatly.

The third generation of successors.

Guo Guantian, the word Cun Gong (birth date unknown), studied medicine with his father since childhood.

In 1901, when Cixi and her party returned to the capital from Xi'an via Luoyang, they were disturbed by unknown armed forces, and one of the beile was accidentally injured and fractured. After returning to the capital, he reported his injury to Cixi, who wrote the word "Good and Well" in her own handwriting and gave him a plaque, and gave Guo Guantian a fifth-ranking title.

 

 

The fourth generation of inheritors.

He studied the whole body skeletal system and drew the skeletal atlas of the human body on the basis of his family's traditional Chinese osteopathy. As stated in the Luoyang County Magazine: "He inherited his grandfather's practice, and became famous in the world for his profound and magnificent practice of "Ling Shu" and "Su Wen", and for his ability to compromise the mysteries of the philosophers. With the Western doctors occasionally pout embarrassed in the art, known to ask for medical advice, by hand to calm, no one is impressed, and Guo's with the unique Chinese and foreign, seekers of medical treatment, outdoor often full."

The American missionary Henry's son had an infection after breaking his leg in a horse race, and after many consultations, he had to have his leg amputated. This story was later recorded on Guo Hsien San's tombstone: "The son of a beautiful doctor in Zhengzhou fell off his horse and lost his bone. The doctor said, 'China's best technique, the Western method dare not hope!

 

 

The fifth generation inheritor - Pingle Guo's bone setting pioneer

Guo Jingxing, whose name is Can Ruo (1895-1950), was the son of Guo Bingsan. He practiced medicine with his father. Through his father's words and deeds, the young man has become a famous doctor and is outstanding. On the basis of the elder's techniques, he summarized the bone setting techniques of "swing percussion, whirl rolling, and rotation lifting".

 

 

Gao Yunfeng (1906-1976) married Mr. Guo Canruo in 1926. In 1930, Mr. Guo Canruo was unfortunately seriously ill. He bravely broke the ancestral motto of the Guo family that "men should not be passed on to women, and inside should not be passed on to outside". He passed on Pingle Guo's bone setting skills to his wife, Mr. Gao Yunfeng, thus achieving the legendary life of Mr. Gao Yunfeng and rewriting the fate of Pingle Guo's bone setting.

In 1952, Mr. Gao Yunfeng and his son Guo Weihuai presented the ancestral secret recipe to the country and the people; In 1956, Gao Yunfeng was invited to attend the second session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and was received by Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou. Chairman Mao encouraged her to "take more apprentices and serve the people well". In the same year, she established the first public bone setting hospital of traditional Chinese medicine in China, Luoyang Special Bone Setting Hospital (now renamed Luoyang Bone Setting Hospital of Henan Province). In 1958, she established the first public undergraduate university of traditional Chinese medicine, Henan Pingle Bone Setting College, In 1959, Luoyang Orthopedic Research Institute (Now renamed Henan Orthopedic Research Institute), the first bone injury research institute in China, was established, which enabled Pingle Guo's bone setting to achieve the rudiment of the integration of medicine, education, research and production in the 1950s. She was the founder of higher education in traditional Chinese orthopedics and traumatology and the pioneer of Pingle Guo's bone setting.

 

 

The sixth generation inheritor - Pingle Guo's bone setting master

Guo Weihuai (1929-2015), the chief Chinese medicine doctor, the lifelong honorary president of Luoyang Orthopedic Hospital in Henan Province, the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage "TCM Orthopedic Therapy", the winner of the first "Bethune Medal" in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, and the "national medical model". He studied medicine at an early age and went to hospital independently at the age of 16. Since 1956, she has assisted her mother Gao Yunfeng to establish the Luoyang Orthopedic Hospital (now renamed as Luoyang Orthopedic Hospital in Henan Province), Henan Pingle Orthopedic Institute, and Henan Pingle Orthopedic Institute (now renamed as Henan Orthopedic Institute). They are pioneers of higher education in the modern orthopedic and traumatology of Chinese medicine in China, and are the epitome of Guo's Orthopedic in Pingle.

Since 1983, Guo Weihuai has been invited by the Central Health Bureau to Beijing for many times to diagnose and treat many central leaders. In 1987, Guo Weihuai was invited to Beijing to diagnose and treat back pain for President Li Xiannian. He took Chinese medicine orally, used Pingle Guo's Bone Setting Massage and Muscle Activating Massage externally, and cooperated with acupoint massage. In only seven days, he had a remarkable effect. It was famous at home and abroad.

Guo Weihuai has been a doctor for more than 70 years. He has treated countless patients. He has been awarded as a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage of "bone setting therapy of traditional Chinese medicine", one of the first batch of national famous and elderly TCM experts, and a "national medical model". He has won the "Bethune Medal", the first "Special Contribution Award for the Inheritance of Traditional Chinese Medicine", the "Lifelong Contribution Award for Henan Traditional Chinese Medicine", and the "National Outstanding Contribution Award for Traditional Chinese Medicine", He systematically summarized Pingle Guo's academic thought of "three principles" and "four methods" for bone setting and "theory of syndrome differentiation of qi and blood".

 

 

The seventh generation inheritor - Pingle Guo's bone setting innovator

Guo Yansi (1948~1994) was the seventh generation descendant of Guo's bone setting in Pingle. He has studied medicine since he was a child. He has worked in the Orthopedics Department of Luoyang Second People's Hospital and the Orthopedics Department of Luoyang Orthopedics Hospital in Henan Province for many years. He has rich clinical experience and deep academic attainments. As one of the first batch of national famous TCM doctors and the sixth generation descendant of Pingle Guo's Bone Setting,He is a disciple of Guo Weihuai, and is good at treating various bone injuries with manipulation and treating various traumatology syndromes with traditional Chinese medicine. He is the author of Pingle Zhenggu and has published many papers.

 

 

Guo Yanjin, the national representative inheritor of the "Pingle Guo's Bone Setting Method", the chief physician, the national famous old Chinese medicine expert, the fifth batch of national old Chinese medicine expert academic experience inheritance guidance teacher, and the winner of the first national Chinese medicine inheritance expert award.

Guo Yanjin studied medicine at an early age, read classics well, learned from her grandmother Gao Yunfeng and her father Guo Weihuai, and practiced medicine for more than 50 years. She is good at treating difficult and miscellaneous orthopedic diseases such as cervical spondylosis, necrosis of femoral head, lumbago and leg pain, and periarthritis of shoulder. She is famous for her accurate medication, rigorous and refined prescription, and miraculous efficacy.

 

 

Guo Yanxing, the national representative inheritor of "Pingle Guo's Bone Setting Method", the second level chief physician, the inheritor of Guo Weihuai's academic experience of "two departments and one bureau", the tutor of master's degree and doctor's degree, the post doctoral instructor, the expert enjoying the special allowance of the State Council, the outstanding contribution award of Henan traditional Chinese medicine, and the famous traditional Chinese medicine in Henan Province.

He has successively served as the director of Guo Weihuai Inheritance Studio, a national famous expert in traditional Chinese medicine, the director of Pingle Guo's Bone Setting School Inheritance Studio, the national key academic leader, the council member of the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the vice chairman of the Orthopedic Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the vice chairman of the Orthopedic Branch of the World Federation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the standing member of the Orthopedic Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, Executive Vice President of the World Federation of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Executive Vice President of the World Federation of Manipulative Medicine, Chairman of the Orthopedics and Trauma Rehabilitation Committee of Henan Association of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, and Deputy Editor in Chief of Bone Setting of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Journal of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Professor Guo Yanxing followed his grandmother Gao Yunfeng (the fifth generation of Pingle Guo's bone setting, a national famous traditional Chinese medicine) to learn Pingle Guo's bone setting medicine from an early age. He comprehensively inherited the academic ideas and clinical experience of his grandmother Gao Yunfeng and his father Guo Weihuai, and mastered the academic essence of Pingle Guo's bone setting. In more than 40 years of clinical practice, he used Pingle Guo's bone setting characteristic diagnosis and treatment technology to relieve patients' pain.

Guo Yanxing has enriched the academic thought (seven principles) and diagnosis and treatment methods (six methods) of Pingle Bonesetting on the basis of the "three principles" and "four methods" of Pingle Bonesetting according to the changes in modern people's lifestyle and disease spectrum, and has constructed the system of "Pingle Bonesetting Balance Theory". More than 240 academic papers and 27 monographs have been published. At present, he has presided over 4 scientific research projects above the prefecture level, obtained 7 provincial and ministerial scientific and technological achievements, 25 prefecture level scientific and technological achievements, 5 national invention patents and 10 utility model patents. 33 master's students, 4 doctoral students and 5 postdoctoral students were trained.

 

 

The eighth generation inheritor - the practitioner of setting the bones of Guo family in Pingle

Guo Jiayi, the provincial representative inheritor of the "Pingle Guo's Bone Setting Method", the chief Chinese physician, the master's supervisor, and a craftsman in Heluo. He is currently the director of the Research and Treatment Center for Non operative Treatment of Osteoarthritis in Luoyang Orthopedic Hospital of Henan Province, the director of Pingle Orthopedic Research Office, the director of the "Pingle Guo's Orthopedic School Inheritance Studio", the deputy director of the Orthopedic Branch of the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the vice-chairman of the Osteoarthritis Professional Committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, and the vice-chairman of the Joint Special Committee of the Orthopedic Branch of the Chinese Association for the Advancement of Chinese Medicine Research, Vice Chairman of Health Management Branch of Henan Medical Association.

He studied with his grandfather Guo Weihuai and his mother Guo Yansi when he was young, and learned from Professor Guo Yanjin, Professor Guo Yanxing and Professor Wei Guikang, a master of traditional Chinese medicine. He has been engaged in the teaching, scientific research and clinical work of bone injuries in Chinese medicine for 30 years. He has a solid theoretical foundation and rich clinical experience. Under the guidance of Pingle Guo's bone setting balance theory, we have constructed the "bone raising theory and prevention and treatment system of Pingle Guo's bone setting". As a strong guardian, inheritor and developer of Pingle Guo's bone setting, we are committed to the academic inheritance, talent cultivation, promotion and application of Pingle Guo's bone setting. Guo Jiayi successively published more than 60 papers, wrote 22 books, won 11 scientific and technological achievement awards above the prefecture level, 1 national invention patent, 12 utility model patents, and presided over and participated in 12 scientific research projects above the department level.

 

 

Guo Malong, the provincial representative inheritor of "Pingle Guo's Bone Setting Method", chief physician, postgraduate supervisor, is currently the director of the Department of Osteoarthritis of Luoyang Bone Setting Hospital (Henan Orthopedic Hospital) in Henan Province.

Guo Malong studied with his grandfather Guo Weihuai when he was young, and learned from Professor Guo Yanjin and Professor Wei Guikang, a master of Chinese medicine. He has been engaged in the clinical work of bone injuries in combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine for more than 20 years, with superb business and noble medical ethics.

 

 

In 2018, Guo Yanxing, as the chief editor in chief and Guo Jiayi, as the deputy chief editor in chief, published the Pingle Bone Setting Series (18 volumes in total) by China Traditional Chinese Medicine Publishing House, which comprehensively demonstrated the academic thought and characteristics of Pingle Bone Setting. For the first time, the balance theory and bone training system were included in the book, which comprehensively demonstrated the academic thought and characteristics of Pingle Bone Setting, and enriched and improved the diagnosis and treatment content of the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of TCM.

 

 

Since 2013, the seventh and eighth generations of Pingle Guo's bone setting have continuously promoted the characteristic diagnosis and treatment technology of Pingle Guo's osteogenesis through the establishment of secondary workstations. As of November 2021, 20 secondary workstations have been established nationwide, distributed in 15 provinces and municipalities directly under the Central Government. Meanwhile, for half a century, Pingle Guo's bone setting has been receiving further education, training, and students from all over the country and overseas, and awarded Pingle Guo's bone setting characteristic diagnosis and treatment technology, which has gradually formed a distribution pattern of Pingle Guo's bone setting radiating to all parts of the country and overseas with Luoyang as its headquarters, so that Pingle Guo's bone setting characteristic diagnosis and treatment technology can benefit more patients.