Is Huanglian Houbao a real person?
No. Huanglian Houpu is a novel by Beijing school writer Ye Guangcen. The story of the novel is a fictionalized storyline, and the characters are also fictionalized, so Huanglian Houpu is not a true story. The author wrote the novel "Huanglian Houpu" in an attempt to smelt medical science and human feelings into one furnace, telling the story of the Chinese medicine complex of several generations of a family of imperial doctors and the emotional entanglements of their sons and daughters.