According to staff members from the hospital's TCM Clinical Research Center, TCM mentorship mainly adopts the traditional master-apprentice model to cultivate successors. Through apprentices participating in diagnosis and treatment practices alongside their masters, the masters' experience is inherited, which is an important way to inherit and develop traditional medicine.

"The ceremony made me feel the deep roots and responsibility of inheriting TCM," said He Guoping, an apprentice. "I hope to carry forward my master's teachings and ethics."

Lu Ruotong contributed to this story.