The value of genuine donkey hide gelatin

The price of donkey hide gelatin, one of the three treasures of Chinese traditional medicine, is not only known as "top grade" and "holy medicine" in classic pharmaceutical works such as Shennong materia medica classic and compendium of Materia Medica, but also has wonderful stories with many historical celebrities In the poem of the whole Tang Dynasty, there is a saying that "when the lead China is washed to the full, the price of the lotus leaf is hard to stop." The poem that the price of taking donkey hide gelatin is not good, but is born to be king Rong describes that Yang Guifei's flesh is like clotting fat because of the price of taking donkey hide gelatin, Zeng Guofan's devotion to mother's birthday, and Cao Zhi's price of taking donkey hide gelatin has changed her weak and sickly health, which is still widely spread However, it is a legend about empress Cixi that makes the price of donkey hide gelatin most famous When Cixi was pregnant, she had a bleeding foetus Although she had been treated by a famous doctor, she had no effect She was so anxious that emperor Xianfeng, who had no offspring, was destroyed Chen Zonggui, a Shandong Dong'e man who was then a household servant, told the emperor that Cixi should take the price treatment of donkey hide gelatin produced by Shude Hall of Dong'e Deng family Cixi obeys his advice and takes the price of donkey hide gelatin As expected, the blood stops the illness and recovers Then she gives birth to a baby boy at full term The boy was later emperor Tongzhi As a result, the price of dong'a-jiao was named "Gongjiao" by Emperor Xianfeng and became a special offering of luxury goods at that time In 1871, the 10th year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Tongzhi emperor specially sent a four grade imperial envoy to dong'a county to supervise the purchase of pure black healthy donkeys, herd them on the lion's ear mountain, kill them in winter, take skins, open wells and boil glue, and supervise the production on site The prestige of the price of dong'a-jiao is unparalleled Nowadays, people are fond of talking about the cultural connotation of the price of donkey hide gelatin, but at the same time they linger in the tangle of rising or not Restricted by raw materials, especially the price of donkey hide and other reasons, the price of donkey hide has been adjusted several times, but each price adjustment will cause consumer dissatisfaction So, how much is the price of genuine donkey hide gelatin? Not long ago, the price of dong'a gum was specially studied and compared with the price of bird's nest and Cordyceps It is found that the price of donkey hide gelatin is equivalent or even better, but the price is not at the same level Qin Yufeng, a representative inheritor of the price making technology of dong'a-jiao, a national intangible cultural heritage, pointed out that if we search for history and compare with the present, the price of donkey hide gelatin is even lower Qin Yufeng said that the figures derived from the historical price comparison did not fully represent the actual value of the price of donkey hide gelatin In fact, as the "top grade" in traditional Chinese medicine, the price of donkey hide gelatin is also related to many historical and cultural symbols, traditional medicine manufacturing techniques, etc., which is a real cultural heritage Therefore, the measurement of its price should not be limited to how much it costs, but should be considered at a higher level In addition to focusing on market recognition, efforts should also be made to alleviate the most practical contradiction between supply and demand, at the same time, we should actively introduce advanced technology and innovative technology, create a model of the whole industrial chain, so that its value, quality, culture, technology, etc can be inherited.