1. 1929, when China was still ruled by the Kuomintang government, 1929, in February, Yu Yunxiu, the head of the health organization of the Kuomintang government, proposed at a working meeting to abolish old medicine (Chinese medicine was called old medicine at that time) and completely deny Chinese medicine. If the abolition of the old medicine is confirmed, the only medicine to treat diseases can be western medicine, and Chinese medicine practitioners in China for thousands of years will be abandoned, which is the notorious "case of abolishing Chinese medicine" at that time. At that time, it caused a great shock in the medical field, and a large number of Chinese medicine practitioners protested and lobbied. For this reason, the Spring and Autumn Annals of Medicine sponsored by Zhang Zanchen, a famous Chinese doctor in Shanghai, published a disobedience to the abolition of old medicine with the title of Struggle of Chinese Medicine.

2. In March of the same year, more than 200 organizations and 300 representatives from 17 provinces and cities gathered in Shanghai. Hold a conference, shout slogans such as "opposing the abolition of Chinese medicine" and "Long live Chinese medicine", petition in Nanjing, and express people's hearts and voices in various ways. The Kuomintang government had to withdraw its decision to abolish old medicine. In order to commemorate the victory of this struggle and hope that Chinese medicine can be carried forward in China and even the whole world for the benefit of mankind, medical professionals designated March 17 as "China Ethnic Medicine Festival"; Shanghai is the birthplace of "Chinese Medicine Festival".

3. Traditional Chinese medicine is one of China's "national treasures", with a long history and brilliant achievements of thousands of years. Before the Opium War, the medical field in China was always the best in Chinese medicine. After the invasion of foreign powers, western learning spread to the east, and western medicine also took root in China. Two different medical systems coexist, and conflicts are inevitable. In the increasingly fierce debate between Chinese and western medicine, quite a few people in the medical field hold a contemptuous or even opposing attitude towards Chinese medicine, and advocate replacing Chinese medicine with western medicine, thinking that Chinese medicine has fallen behind the times, which is a deceptive trick of feudal superstition.

4. In particular, abolishing the ideological trend of Chinese medicine has become the ideological basis for the government to do everything possible to exclude and eliminate Chinese medicine. From Daoguang, Beiyang Warlords to Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek, they created various obstacles to prevent the development of Chinese medicine, and even attempted to eliminate Chinese medicine by administrative means. In order to save the precious medical cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, the field of traditional Chinese medicine has waged a long and tenacious struggle. He has petitioned directly against the Beiyang government and the Kuomintang government for more than ten times, and there are countless regional struggles. The ancient China medicine experienced the most difficult years in history.