He is a pharmacist who has helped countless patients for free; he is an old scavenger who enthusiastically supports 35 college students; he is the father of 5 children, all of whom are well-known, but he does not want a penny from them; he is a retired village chief who sincerely serves the people and is selfless; his name is Huang Xiankuo, a 77-year-old man from Houting Village, Xinxu Town, Xiang'an District, Xiamen, an outstanding Communist Party member who is content with poverty and willing to make contributions.

Huang Xiankuo, a villager and old Chinese medicine practitioner in Houting Village, Xinxu Town, Tong'an District, Xiamen

1. "Living Jigong" grows herbal medicine to save patients for 57 years without asking for a penny

Although the old man Huang Xiankuo in front of us is over 70 years old, he looks much younger than his actual age with a celestial look and vigor.

"My love for Chinese medicine is completely a coincidence. I always feel that our Chinese medicine is so good, but there are too few people studying it." Huang said that when he was 17 years old, his mother had a foot disease, which was swollen and painful. She was in the hospital for 4 months but still didn't get better. "A Chinese medicine doctor cured my mother's disease with only three leaves of herbs. Since then, I have had an indissoluble bond with Chinese herbal medicine." Since then, he has been fascinated by Chinese medicine and has been learning from masters everywhere, including monks and military medical captains. He also lived in Xiang'an Guzhai Mountain for a whole year, specializing in learning to identify various Chinese herbal medicines. At the age of 22, the young Huang Xiankuo became a well-known Chinese medicine doctor. In addition to patients in Xiamen, patients in Jinjiang, Quanzhou and Shishi would also come to him.

"Patients come from far away to line up, and I really can't bear to let them wait." At more than 10 o'clock in the morning, Huang Lao didn't even have time to eat breakfast. As soon as he entered the kitchen, patients came in and asked questions non-stop. This is Huang Lao's daily life. Huang Lao's "clinic" is always crowded with people. On average, more than 30 people come for "consultation" every day. Some come by plane, some by train, some by car, some by car, some by bus, and some on foot, from as far away as Heilongjiang and Xinjiang. Villagers recalled that in the early 1990s, cars were rarely seen in rural areas, but there were often cars coming in and out of their village, all coming to see Huang Lao. Even though more and more people are looking for Huang Lao, Huang Lao has an unshakable rule, which is that he does not charge patients a penny. "My mother was cured for free back then, and I practice medicine (for free) to repay the old Chinese doctor who treated my mother," said Huang Lao. As a party member, this is not just a moral issue, the most important thing is "I hope the prescription works and keeps patients away from pain." In 2009, patient Cai got a strange disease and could not urinate. His stomach swelled day by day. He went to the hospital but did not get better. He could not hold on any longer. His family found Huang Lao and promised to help cure the disease and was willing to give his family's savings of 70,000 yuan. Finally, Huang cured Cai's illness. The other party insisted on giving him the passbook, and he returned the passbook on the same day.

Where did Huang get the medicine from when he received patients from all over China without charging them a penny? In 1997, Huang planted more than 300 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines on the mountain. "When the demand was high, I would make specimens of these medicines for the patients to see and let them go home to collect them themselves." Huang has been treating and consulting patients for 57 years on a voluntary basis, curing countless patients and many difficult and complicated diseases. His notebook is densely filled with notes. "I write down every proven effective prescription in a notebook, which can not only summarize but also benefit more people." Some patients also took the initiative to take out the ancient medical books and ancient folk prescriptions at home and gave them to Huang. "Some medical books are so old that they are broken when they are taken. I always carefully remember them first." In 2010, Huang, who is both virtuous and artistic, was invited to attend the Expert Conference on the Construction of Chinese Characteristic Medicine held in Beijing and was awarded the plaque of famous doctor.

As he got older, Mr. Huang, who never accepted apprentices, began to get a little anxious. "I don't like some people who use folk prescriptions to make a lot of money from patients." He said, "But it would be a pity if so many folk prescriptions and prescriptions were lost. In the future, I want to publish them and leave them to the society." Since 2010, Mr. Huang has started writing books. He hopes to publish these magical prescriptions, "write down the secret prescriptions and folk prescriptions I know, and send them to government hospitals to cure more patients."

2. "Living Jigong" turns waste into treasure and sponsors 35 children to go to college

Mr. Huang's home is halfway up the mountain. He jokingly calls it a "villa", but it is actually a shack, or more precisely, a garbage dump, pig farm, and cattle farm. Many people who have visited Mr. Huang's residence are surprised to see that there is a "hill" of garbage at the door of his house. "Haha, these are the treasures!" Mr. Huang pointed to the door of the yard. "Treasures" are plastic bottles, packed in sacks, piled up like a small mountain, higher than the 2-meter-high wall. Not far from his home, there is a garbage mountain full of plastic bags, woven bags, and wine bottles.

Mr. Huang has a familiar set of numbers: 22 yuan for a bag of cow dung, 8 cents for a wine bottle, 1.2 yuan for a pound of plastic bags, 70 cents for a pound of woven bags, and more than 2 yuan for a pound of plastic bottles. More than 20 bottles can make a pound of plastic. These garbage have become "treasures" in Mr. Huang's eyes, because they can be sold for a lot of money. Mr. Huang uses all the money from selling garbage on needy students and the elderly. Over the past few years, Mr. Huang has donated more than 50,000 yuan to support 35 children to go to college. Mr. Huang gave each of the 27 lonely elderly people in the village an electric rice cooker, spending a total of more than 10,000 yuan. "Giving away a rice cooker means picking up a few thousand plastic bottles," Mr. Huang said proudly, "The rice cookers I gave away were the best at the time." Someone roughly calculated that to give away a rice cooker worth 400 yuan, Mr. Huang had to pick up nearly 4,000 plastic bottles. 27 rice cookers, equivalent to picking up about 108,000 plastic bottles. A 73-year-old man, how many years would it take to pick up plastic bottles. Mr. Huang didn't think much of this data, just smiled happily. He said that there was a unit next to his home, and he took charge of the unit's garbage sorting and recycling. He has been doing it for 5 years, and can turn more than 10,000 yuan of waste into treasure every year. Every New Year, the needy elderly in the village can also receive quilts, clothes and other daily necessities or "consolation money" from him.

3. "Living Jigong" is happy to be a peacemaker and supports the construction of a new village

"Without Lao Huang's leadership and support, the new village construction pilot task would be difficult to complete in time, and there would not be the hardening, purification, lighting, greening and beautification of the village today." said the branch secretary of Houting Village. When Lao Huang served as the head of Houting Village in the 1980s, he proposed the idea of using a long-term vision to unify and intensively manage land and do a good job in village planning. He led the majority of party members and cadres to raise funds from various sources, repaired the road to Xinxu Town, and made land planning to solve the problem of villagers having no land to build houses and building houses in disorder.

"Whenever we walk on such a flat and wide road and look at the houses built in an orderly manner on both sides, the first person we think of is Lao Huang, and we are very grateful." Villager Huang Yaozhi recalled that it took Lao Huang a year and a half to do ideological work for all the villagers. Even after stepping down from the position of village chief, Mr. Huang did not "get rid of" the pressure. In the later reconstruction of the old village and the construction of the new village, Mr. Huang was the first to stand up and demolish his house. For some households that could not understand the demolition, Mr. Huang would go to their homes every night to do ideological work one by one. Under his influence, nearly ten households of villagers reached a demolition agreement with the demolition department every day.

The environment in the village has changed, but Mr. Huang is still "not satisfied". In his eyes, a harmonious village should be one where everyone lives in harmony and happiness. It is said that "it is difficult for an honest official to judge family affairs", but it is not difficult for "Living Jigong". As long as there is a quarrel between a couple in the village or a disagreement between brothers, he will treat it as something that happened in his own family and must go to the door to mediate and reconcile. Mr. Huang said that this is what an old Communist Party member should do.

4. "Living Jigong" invented "Huang Lao Jihao" and "Kuo Jihao" longan

Huang Lao is also a smart fruit farmer. He used his own orchard as an experiment and grafted a large number of good longan varieties from other regions. As a result, he really made a name for himself.

In 1996, the price of longan began to decline sharply. After investigating the markets in many places, Huang Lao found that the early or late maturity of longan had a great impact on the price, so he decisively introduced early-maturing longan varieties. Every time he went down the mountain, Lao Huang would keep an eye on where the longan was good and where the longan was early. He would dig deep until he found the mother tree. Once he found a good variety, he would go over and name it "Huang Lao No. 1" and "Huang Lao No. 2". Over the years, Huang Lao has introduced more than 30 varieties. He said that he hoped that all fruit farmers in the city could grow profitable longan, and welcomed interested fruit farmers to come to the garden for grafting, which would be free of charge.

Since he started growing longan, Mr. Huang has raised a lot of livestock in his garden: the livestock are free-range, the feed is natural, and the livestock breeding quality is high; the manure produced by the livestock is used as fertilizer for longan. He hopes that his garden can lead more farmers to improve the longan variety. Mr. Huang said that he has a little selfish desire: he hopes that in the future, farmers can name this longan variety after him through word of mouth, so it can be called "Ku Jihao".

Raising pigs and cattle, growing longan, and picking up garbage, Mr. Huang said that his annual net income can be 50,000 yuan, which makes him very proud: "I am old and don't have much requirements for material conditions." No matter what, "the rule of free medical treatment cannot be broken."

5. Why does the "Living Jigong" want to be an "ascetic monk"?

People who are familiar with Huang Xiankuo know that the old man actually has no worries about food and clothing, because his children are well-known local entrepreneurs and have a wealthy family. People often don't understand why Huang Xiankuo would give up his comfortable life and live alone in the mountains, working hard, growing herbs, picking up garbage, planting vegetables and fruits, herding sheep, pigs and cattle, and choosing an "ascetic" life. Faced with this question, Huang Xiankuo would always proudly say: "Because I am a Communist Party member." These concise and powerful words reveal pride and joy, and convey responsibility and commitment.

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