On March 16, one of the 2017 Hunan Spring Village Tourism Festival and Chenzhou Beautiful Rural Tourism and Cultural Activities, Chinese Herbal Medicine Trade Fair opened in the Shitouba Market of Anren County. The yo-heave-ho and inquiry sound in the market were going up, and the refreshing herbal medicine flavor was coming from straight ahead.

Around the Spring Equinox every year, the druggists from all over the country gather in Anren and have made the Chinese herbal medicine trades for half a month, trading up to thousands varieties of Chinese herbal medicines.

Gu Changfeng, 60 years old from Chaling County, rushed to the market early in the morning and put their own herbs in a prominent position in the market. There were a lot of people inquiring the price. For the first time to participate in Chinese herbal medicine trade, he took four or five days to dig about 10 kilograms of wild Polygonum viviparum in the mountains.

Gu Changfeng introduced that the market price of wild Polygonum viviparum is about 90 yuan per kilogram with enough high price. The Anren Chinese herbal medicine market has good reputation so that Gu Changfeng also hoped that their wild medicines could be sold at good prices.

Different from Gu Changfeng, Li Dongsheng has made the Chinese herbal medicine business for thirty years. He has rented a façade to do the Chinese herbal medicines wholesale business when the Shitouba market was just built. There are filled with Chinese herbal medicines in Li Dongsheng's shop, about 15 kilograms each bundle. Li Dongsheng does not worry about the sale, because the druggists from Henan, Jiangsu and other places come here to buy the herbs every year and some herbs are sold to pharmaceutical factories in Changsha, Zhuzhou and other places.

There are some good medicines with high prices in the hands of Li Dongsheng, such as single-legged Curculigo and herb of Marginate Rockbell with the price of at least 100 yuan per kilogram. Li Dongsheng said that during the half-month of annual Spring Equinox, he would sell about 50 thousand kilograms of Chinese herbal medicine, about annual income of 100,000 yuan.

The Chinese Herbal Medicine Trade Fair will open from March 16 to March 25.