"My grandfather is a TCM practitioner. At home, he treated patients with both acupuncture and Tuina. When I was little, I would sit beside him watching his practice of medicine... Later, my older brother and sister also studied TCM and came to China... It felt like I was following their footsteps, step by step, to China. It was also as if my grandfather was guiding me from afar, telling me to walk this path with peace of mind."

　　Grandpa taught Huang Shufei to recognize acupoints, saying "Hands must be steady, heart must be calm." She has always remembered this, silently reciting it during competitions. Growing up immersed in this environment, the names and locations of acupoints were already etched in her memory—memorizing them faster than others, needling more steadily than others. Professor Ma Yuxia said this family heritage brings not only technical proficiency, "but more reflected in deeply rooted TCM thinking and professional identity."

　　During practical training, accidentally needling oneself is common—she would video call her brother and sister. Her brother in Guangdong, her sister studies in Hunan, and the three of them discuss techniques and cases across screens.

　　A Plant of Angelica sinensis, Two Hometowns

　　When she first came to Shandong, Huang Shufei was afraid of the cold weather. The northern winter chill took her quite a while to adapt to. Now, she has gradually grown accustomed to the four seasons here and has come to like the people here.

　　"I think people in Shandong are very genuine—I especially like them. The teachers are particularly caring toward us foreign students, and the school facilities are excellent." She said that studying TCM here, "is not just about learning techniques; you can also feel that sense of... how to put it... the feeling of 'roots'."