From food and herbs to team building activities, understand what Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is and how it can benefit meeting and incentive planners and groups alike travelling in Beijing.
As event professionals, maintaining proper physical and mental health are two of the important factors to produce quality events and to manage those high levels of stress.
Organisations reward their top achievers and offer retreats for top executives to rejuvenate and motivate, and have increasingly been integrating health and wellness elements to their meeting and incentive programmes. To this end, TCM has gained popularity among international groups in the past few years who thought it intriguing.
The emergence of TCM tours
The Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Department and the Beijing Municipal Administration of TCM co-founded the leading group on TCM cultural tourism in 2011 to build its 21 Chinese medicine cultural tour demonstration bases.
According to the Beijing Municipal Administration of TCM, the TCM regimen, a pearl in traditional Chinese culture, has been known to boost vitality, prevents diseases, maintain health and aims to achieve longevity through food, medicine, acupuncture, massage, and more.
Some forms of TCM include:
Beijing’s rich resources and a strong culture of TCM have made the practice more professional and accessible to international visitors.
Below are five of the myriad options available in the capital city that meeting and incentive groups looking to incorporate fitness and wellness programmes into their itineraries can take advantage of:
TCM-themed resorts provide the much needed respite from the stresses and fatigue of daily life to rejuvenate the body, mind and soul.
Beijing Shan Shui Wen Yuan Jin Hai Lake Resort, spans an area of 22 sq km, and hosts the largest comprehensive water entertainment in Beijing at 6.7 sq km. Jinhai Lake 121 International Anti-aging Center, built by Riverside Group, accumulates more than 20 years of experience from Lanserhof to create the international top-level anti-aging-oriented International Medical Center and high-end holiday medical platform.
Health cultivation and cultural tourism demonstration bases in Beijing represent the remarkable history and traditional Chinese medical capabilities that the city possesses.
Founded in September of 1990, the Museum of Chinese Medicine at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine is a professionally managed museum with a rich collection of traditional Chinese medicinal relics and substances. Covering an area of 1,500 sq m, the museum consists of two sections: the Exhibition of Chinese Medical History and the Exhibition of Chinese Materia Medica. The museum has played an important role in teaching and research of TCM, and the international exchange of TCM between China and the world as well as popularising TCM knowledge.
Learn about the nutritional value of TCM cuisine and acquire delicious seasonal recipes that follow TCM principles at The Hutong, which also provides a wide variety of custom-designed corporate programmes.
Alternatively, enjoy a medicinal meal in a local restaurant recommended by Beijing Tourism Development Commission, or at Tai Shen Xiang He Villa.
Practice Taiji on the vast lawns of Temple of Heaven’s park area. Hire a coach to give a brief introduction to the origin, development, and practice of Taiji. Led by a Taiji master, experience first-hand the martial art form that is practised by millions in China and around the world.
As the largest park within the city, approximately 5,000 people come to this park to exercise every morning.
Beijing, the birth place of China’s first ever Nobel Prize in medicine, is deeply rooted in TCM.
Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences is one of the 16 organisations Designated by Beijing Pistis International TCM Service to provide a variety of specialised TCM services. Xiyuan Hospital has been credited to the prevention and treatment of stenosis after a stent is deployed in the coronary artery by TCM activating blood circulation therapy Anti-wrinkle or chloasma reduction by nano-chip technology and nature herbal medicine. It has also aided in the prevention and treatment of intestinal cancer in TCM.
The benefits of TCM are evident when understood, and its range of activities and support programmes give international groups more authentic options to understand China and its culture.
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