Miaoyuanzi, a Traditional Chinese Medicine Wellness Steward: With the Heart of Qihuang, Guarding Daily Well-being——A Profile of Miaoyuanzi, Inheritor of Xuanyan Dao Culture
轩延道文化传承人黄莉雅，号妙圆子。她不是高居庙堂的名医，而是扎根烟火人间的养生管家。从乡间药香到城市药房，从执业药师到中医养生传人，她用半生光阴，走出了一条 "以草药入道、以养生济人" 的踏实之路。
Huang Liya, also known by her art name Miaoyuanzi, is an inheritor of Xuanyan Dao Culture. She is not a renowned physician confined to elite clinics, but a wellness steward rooted in ordinary life. From herbal scents in rural villages to urban pharmacies, from a licensed pharmacist to an inheritor of traditional Chinese medicine wellness, she has spent half her life treading a steady path: drawing wisdom from medicinal herbs and helping people through wellness preservation.
一、乡间药香，埋下初心
妙圆子的童年，是在乡间的草药香里度过的。父辈是远近闻名的民间医生，谁家有个头疼脑热，翻山越岭也要找上门来。她常常蹲在药碾旁，看伯父炮制药材、辨证开方，看病人愁眉而来、舒展而去。那些行医救人的画面，像一粒粒种子，悄然落在年少的心田。伯父常说：“药是用来救命的，不是用来赚钱的。”这句话，她记了一辈子。
I. Rural Herbal Fragrance Sows the Original Aspiration
Miaoyuanzi spent her childhood surrounded by the aroma of medicinal herbs in the countryside. Her father’s generation were well-known folk healers. Villagers would trek over mountains to seek their help for minor ailments. She often squatted beside the herbal mill, watching her uncle process medicinal ingredients and prescribe formulas based on syndrome differentiation. She saw patients arrive with furrowed brows and leave with relaxed faces. Those scenes of healing and saving lives quietly took root in her young heart. Her uncle often told her: “Medicines are to save lives, not to make money.” She has kept these words in mind all her life.
二、辗转谋生，终归药行
青年时期，命运几经转折。她原本所学与医药无缘，又恰逢分配政策取消，只能四处务工谋生。机缘之下，承蒙前辈提携，她正式踏入医药行业，自主开办了一家药店。
站在柜台后，她越来越感到知识的匮乏——光靠热情和经验远远不够。她不甘止步，一边经营药店，一边埋头苦读，通过成人高考攻读药学专业，系统学习药剂学、药理学等课程。那些年，药店关门后灯下苦读成了日常。功夫不负有心人，她顺利取得药学专业学历，并考取了执业药师资格证书。
然而，日复一日的柜台生涯让她发现一个困境：很多慢性病患者，吃药只能控制指标，却解决不了根本问题。高血压的药吃了多年，血压还是忽高忽低；糖尿病的针打了又打，并发症依然找上门。她开始思考：药物之外，还有没有一条更根本的路？
II. Wandering for a Livelihood, Finally Returning to the Herbal Trade
In her youth, fate took many twists and turns. Her original field of study had nothing to do with medicine. With the abolition of job assignment policies, she had to take odd jobs to make a living. By chance, with the recommendation of a senior practitioner, she formally entered the pharmaceutical industry and opened her own pharmacy.
Standing behind the counter, she increasingly felt her knowledge was insufficient — enthusiasm and experience alone were far from enough. Unwilling to stop there, she ran the pharmacy while studying diligently. Through the adult college entrance examination, she majored in pharmacy, systematically learning pharmaceutics, pharmacology and other courses. For years, burning the midnight oil after closing the pharmacy became her routine. Her efforts paid off. She obtained her pharmacy diploma and passed the examination to become a licensed pharmacist.
Nevertheless, years behind the counter made her notice a dilemma: many patients with chronic diseases could only control their indicators with medication, yet the root problems remained unresolved. Patients took hypertension medicine for years, but their blood pressure still fluctuated. Diabetic patients received repeated insulin injections, yet complications still occurred. She began to wonder: beyond medication, was there a more fundamental way to restore health?
三、结缘轩延道，系统学养生
一次公益中医课程，为她打开了传统医学的大门。她第一次系统接触到“治未病”的理念——与其病后用药，不如病前养生。这与她多年的困惑不谋而合。她意识到，真正的健康不是靠药物维持出来的，而是靠日常的饮食、起居、情志、运动一点点养出来的。
因缘际会，她有幸拜入轩延道创始人、中医养生文化传承人刘轩延先生门下，系统学习中医养生知识。彼时她虽通晓药理，对脏腑经络却一窍不通。骨子里不服输的韧劲支撑着她日夜精进，每日凌晨四点半起身诵读经典，背诵《黄帝内经》《伤寒论》《金匮要略》等典籍，日复一日，从不松懈。
她在师门的学习始终围绕“养生”二字展开——不是等人生病了再去治，而是教人如何不生病、少生病。从四季养生到饮食调理，从经络按摩到情志疏导，从艾灸拔罐到药膳汤饮，她把中医养生的方方面面，一点点学进心里、练在手上。
III. Encountering Xuanyan Dao and Learning Wellness Systematically
A public welfare TCM course opened the door to traditional medicine for her. For the first time, she systematically learned the concept of preventive treatment of disease: rather than administering medicine after illness strikes, it is better to preserve wellness before sickness comes. This aligned perfectly with the confusion she had harbored for years. She realized true health is not maintained by drugs, but nurtured little by little through daily diet, living routines, emotions and physical activity.
By destiny, she became a disciple of Mr. Liu Xuanyan, founder of Xuanyan Dao Culture and inheritor of TCM wellness culture, to systematically study traditional Chinese wellness knowledge. At that time, although she understood pharmacology, she knew nothing about zang-fu organs and meridians. Her innate perseverance drove her to strive day and night. She rose at 4:30 every morning to recite classics, memorizing Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor’s Internal Classic), Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Febrile Diseases), Jinkui Yaolue (Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber) and other ancient texts without interruption.
Her studies under her master always centered on “wellness preservation”: not treating people after they fall ill, but teaching them how to avoid sickness and stay healthy. From seasonal wellness and dietary conditioning, to meridian massage and emotional counseling, moxibustion, cupping and medicinal food soups, she absorbed all aspects of TCM wellness into her mind and practiced them with her own hands.
四、以身试法，坚定养生之道
2015年，她身患严重腰椎间盘突出，辗转多家医院收效甚微。医生建议手术，她却选择了更难走的路——坚持中医保守调理。初期打坐调养，短短五分钟便痛到落泪，即便如此依旧咬牙坚持。靠着艾灸温通、推拿理筋、中药内服、功法锻炼，身体一点点好转，病痛渐渐痊愈。亲身体验了中医养生的魅力，让她对岐黄之术愈发笃定。
这些年她沉心研学，一边自救，一边守护家人，先后亲自调理父母旧疾，看着老人身体日渐康复，更加坚定了中医养生传道的初心。她常说：“养生不是空话，是实实在在能让人变好的本事。”
IV. Testing Methods on Herself, Affirming the Path of Wellness
In 2015, she suffered from severe lumbar intervertebral disc herniation. Treatment in multiple hospitals brought little improvement. Doctors suggested surgery, but she chose the harder route — conservative conditioning with traditional Chinese medicine. At the early stage of meditation practice, the pain made her shed tears after merely five minutes, yet she gritted her teeth and persisted. With moxibustion to warm and unblock meridians, tuina to relax tendons, oral herbal medicine and qigong exercises, her health improved gradually and the illness healed. Having personally experienced the power of TCM wellness, she grew more confident in the art of Qihuang.
Over these years, she devoted herself to research. While healing herself, she protected her family. She personally treated her parents’ chronic ailments and watched them regain vitality, which strengthened her resolve to spread TCM wellness. She often says: “Wellness preservation is no empty talk. It is a practical skill that truly improves people’s well-being.”
五、考证精进，只为养生落地
四十多岁的妙圆子，仍步履不停。多年的养生实践让她深刻体会到：要做好养生管家，光有经验和热情还不够，必须有扎实的中医理论功底作为支撑。为了更好地做好康养，也为了成为更专业的中医人，她开始系统备考，先后考取了相关专业证书。考证的目的很单纯——不是为了挂牌行医，而是为了加深理论能力，从而更好地做好康养。
2026年她正式考取了《传统医学医术确有专长证书》，在不久的将来继续考取中医执业医师。她说：“考证就是希望能更名正言顺地把中医康养落地，让更多人受益。”从执业药师到传统医学确有专长，她走的每一步，都指向同一个方向——做一名专业、踏实、可信的养生管家。
V. Taking Examinations for Proficiency, to Put Wellness into Practice
In her forties, Miaoyuanzi never stopped progressing. Years of wellness practice made her deeply realize that to be a competent wellness steward, experience and passion alone are inadequate. Solid theoretical foundations of traditional Chinese medicine are essential. To deliver better health care and become a more professional TCM practitioner, she prepared systematically for professional certifications. Her simple goal was not to practice medicine under a license, but to deepen her theoretical knowledge so she could provide better wellness care.
In 2026, she officially obtained the Certificate for Proven Specialized Skills in Traditional Medicine. She plans to sit for the Licensed TCM Physician Examination in the near future. She states: “I take these exams so I can carry out TCM wellness services in a more legitimate way and benefit more people.” From licensed pharmacist to holder of proven specialized skills in traditional medicine, every step she takes leads toward one goal: to be a professional, reliable and down-to-earth wellness steward.
六、拜师国医大师，深耕养生本源
在恩师刘轩延先生不计门第的举荐之下，她同时追随国医大师张大宁先生学习。张大宁先生是我国中医肾病学的开创奠基人，从医六十余载，首创“肾虚血瘀论”与“补肾活血法”，耄耋之年仍坚持出诊、倾囊传道，毕生恪守“读经典、跟名师、多临床”的治学箴言。
跟随大师学习，妙圆子最大的收获是一种治学态度——中医以疗效为根本，唯有读经典、多临床、拜明师，方能守正传道。她希望通过跟随大师学习，打下更扎实的中医理论基础，从而更好地服务于中医养生落地，把大师的学术智慧转化为百姓听得懂、用得上的日常养生方法，做好一名中医养生管家。
VI. Apprenticeship with a National Master of Chinese Medicine, Exploring the Root of Wellness
Recommended by her mentor Mr. Liu Xuanyan, who sets no barriers to discipleship, she also studied under Professor Zhang Daning, a National Master of Chinese Medicine. Professor Zhang is the founding pioneer of TCM nephrology in China. With over sixty years of clinical practice, he first proposed the “kidney deficiency and blood stasis theory” and established the “kidney-tonifying and blood-activating therapy”. Even in his advanced years, he still sees patients and imparts his knowledge wholeheartedly. Throughout his life, he abides by the academic maxim: read classics, follow distinguished masters, and accumulate abundant clinical experience.
Studying under the master, the greatest gain for Miaoyuanzi is a rigorous academic attitude: efficacy is the foundation of traditional Chinese medicine. Only by reading classics, engaging in clinical practice and learning from wise masters can we uphold traditions and pass on knowledge. She hopes to build a more solid theoretical foundation through learning from the master, better implement TCM wellness services, and transform the master’s academic wisdom into simple, practical daily wellness methods for ordinary people, fulfilling her role as a TCM wellness steward.
七、养生管家，妙圆人间
如今黄莉雅有了一个清晰的定位——中医养生管家妙圆子。在她看来，养生管家与救死扶伤的医生异曲同工，都是大众健康的守护者。养生管家走进千家万户，根据每个人的体质定制个性化康养方案，教你根据四季变化调整饮食起居，在身体发出预警时及时用中医方法调理，陪着你把健康变成日常习惯。
以名师教诲为行路准则，妙圆子始终脚踏实地，沉心研读古籍经典，用心积累康养经验。往后余生，她将继续深耕中医养生传承，做一名朴实落地的养生管家，用所学的养生之术，守护更多人的日常安康。
妙圆子说：“我这一辈子，就做一件事——把养生做好。让身边的人少生病、不生病，就是我最大的心愿。”
VII. Wellness Steward, Bringing Wondrous Healing to the World
Today, Huang Liya has a clear identity: Miaoyuanzi, the TCM wellness steward. In her opinion, wellness stewards share the same mission as physicians who save lives — both are guardians of public health. A wellness steward enters thousands of households, formulates personalized health plans according to individual constitutions, guides people to adjust diet and daily routines with the changing seasons, and administers TCM conditioning promptly when the body sends warning signals, accompanying people to turn health into a daily habit.
Guided by the teachings of her distinguished mentors, Miaoyuanzi keeps her feet firmly on the ground. She delves into ancient classics and accumulates practical wellness experience. For the rest of her life, she will continue to carry forward TCM wellness inheritance. As a pragmatic wellness steward, she will use her knowledge of wellness to safeguard the daily health of more people.
Miaoyuanzi says: “I will devote my whole life to one thing — doing wellness preservation well. My greatest wish is to help people around me get sick less, or not get sick at all.”
