Exchange and Cooperation

China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Benefits Communities Abroad — PingLe Guo’s Bone-Setting Technique Arrives in New Zealand, Bringing a Winter Sunshine to Chinese Communities

Release Date:

2022-07-27 09:45

On July 3, 2019, despite the biting chill of New Zealand’s winter, the performance hall of the New Zealand Chinese Traditional Experience Art Center was brimming with the warmth of spring. Professors Guo Yanxing and Guo Jiayi, the representative inheritors of the national-level intangible cultural heritage “Pingle Guo School Bone-Setting Technique,” graced the venue to promote this invaluable cultural legacy, further extending the reach of the Pingle Guo School beyond China’s borders.

At the conference, the New Zealand Chinese Traditional Culture Experience Art Center and the Pingle Guo’s Orthopedic School (a National Intangible Cultural Heritage) reached a consensus through consultation on future cooperation regarding the dissemination of Chinese medicine culture in New Zealand under the Pingle Guo’s Orthopedic School (National Intangible Cultural Heritage) project, and signed a Framework Agreement on Cooperation.

Mutual gift-giving between the two sides

        Professor Guo of the Pingle Guo School of Orthopedic Manipulation presented a set of tri-color ceramic “Guo-style Orthopedic Manipulation” pieces to the New Zealand Center for Experiencing Chinese Traditional Culture and Arts; in turn, Ms. Liao Xiaoxue, Chairperson of the New Zealand Center, presented a KAURI kauri wood artwork—symbolizing New Zealand’s distinctive identity as the “City of Beautiful Sails”—to the Pingle Guo School of Orthopedic Manipulation.

Peter Young, a Chinese-Caucasian councilor from the Eastern District, attended the symposium.

Guo Yanxing, the seventh-generation descendant of the PingLe Guo School of Bone-Setting, and Guo Jiayi, the eighth-generation descendant, are on hand to answer health-related questions.

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