"Post-90s" Thailand boys go to China to repair traditional Chinese medicine: returning home opens up more people
new network Changchun reporter Lv Shengnan
"from Bangkok to Changchun, this is the first time I have been away from home." Fu Cefu, a Thailand boy who studies Chinese medicine in the northeastern city of Changchun, is a little homesick now.
in September 2016, Fu Cefu, a university graduate, was admitted to Changchun University of Traditional Chinese Medicine as a postgraduate. At present, he has entered an internship in the Affiliated Hospital of the Chinese University.
look, smell, ask, cut... In order to facilitate the diagnosis and treatment with the patient's eye level, Fu Cefu, who is 1.8 meters tall, needs to stoop slightly and maintain his forward posture when he sits in bed. "I have 4 days a week to follow my tutor, and I may have twenty or thirty patients in the morning." Fu Cefu said.
this "90 generation" boy was born in Thailand's traditional Chinese medicine family. His grandfather and father are both Chinese medicine practitioners and have been engaged in medical work in Bangkok.
Fu Cefu takes notes in Chinese and Thai with two notes on his notebook. Lv Shengnan takes
"now Chinese medicine is being understood by more and more people in the world. There are many knowledge here that we can't learn in Thailand. Fu Cefu, who has great interest in TCM, explains why he went to China to study.
"in the era of my father's generation, Chinese medicine is not known to Thai people, and there are not many patients seeking medical treatment. Sometimes, dad will take me with him." Fu Cefu recalled that when he was young, he did not know what Chinese medicine was and was curious about everything.
"Dad can only know what diseases they have with their hands on the wrist of their patients. Is it really so divine?" This initial doubt has always existed in Fu Cefu's childhood.
with curiosity and exploration of Chinese medicine, Fu Cefu went to Thailand Zhuang Jiasheng Royal University to study Chinese medicine. Because of his advanced age, his father had to retire at home and left the Chinese medicine business for the most part of his life. "After his retirement, there was a period of silence and melancholy." Fu Cefu said.