In recent days, the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) culture has been gaining widespread popularity in Liaoning Province. Beyond household-known TCM cultural night markets, Liaoning also embraces the world’s first TCM culture themed hotel. Today, let’s follow the footsteps of Chatchawat from Thailand, and Sadaf from Iran, international students from Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, to have an in-depth experience of the Lily Training Center Hotel.

The Lily Training Center Hotel is situated on Chongshan East Road, Huanggu District, Shenyang City, which is a multi-functional comprehensive TCM culture themed hotel, integrating catering, accommodation and business affairs. Light herbal fragrances will greet guests first, once walking into the hotel lobby, which are refreshing and relaxing. Here, they can also savor mellow TCM herbal teas, and read abundant TCM books. Intriguingly, they can take electronic TCM palpation before checking in.

In the hotel room area, Chatchawat found that a series of drawings displaying Chinese medicinal herbs, the TCM basics he had learned in school, decorate the corridor walls, and each room is named after a Chinese herbal medicine, which particularly captured his attention. Within the hotel room, TCM elements are scattered almost everywhere: pillowcases imprinted with excerpts from The Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Medicine, toiletries marked with health tips, and walls hung with health knowledge charts. TCM services are within reach, fully invigorating a TCM cultural atmosphere. Furthermore, tasting TCM herbal meals in the herbal cuisine dining hall and shopping health snacks in the herbal food hall have become new fashion trends among guests who admire the hotel’s fame, with TCM specialty dishes and drinks mostly loved upon their launch.

The TCM culture themed hotel has brought brand new experiences to the international students, and made them relish the glamor of TCM culture again. “Seeing is believing. I felt time seemed to slow down here,” said Sadaf. “Based on TCM culture, the hotel has brought an ingenious accommodation experience, creating a new lifestyle for us. It has also allowed us to see that TCM is continuously developing through inheritance and innovation, and demonstrates its vigorous vitality in accordance with the needs of the times.”