With the rise of the wave of "returning to nature", people pay more and more attention to the characteristics and advantages of traditional natural medicines, especially Chinese medicine. The application of traditional Chinese medicine has a long history. Physicians of past dynasties have accumulated rich clinical experience with the people. Increasing the development and application of traditional Chinese medicine is not only the inheritance and development of traditional culture, but also a new contribution to human health care. However, as a natural medicine, accurate identification is the premise of its popularization and application. As the director of the Chinese Herb Specimen Center of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the head of Lingnan Chinese Herbal Medicine Research Project, Xian Jianchun has accumulated rich experience in Chinese herbal medicine identification. Over the years, he has traveled all over the country and visited more than 20 provinces and cities in order to photograph medicinal plants. "Go to Wan Li Road and learn thousands of medicines", and accumulated a lot of precious pictures of medicine sources. The Atlas of Chinese Herbal Medicine Identification and Atlas of Chinese Herbal Medicine Identification and Application, edited by him this time, selected more than 300 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines with wide distribution and remarkable curative effects from the vast treasure house of Chinese herbal medicine resources, and published them in illustrated form, focusing on identification, paying special attention to the combination of traditional identification methods (seeing, touching, smelling and tasting), which are simple and easy to learn, and are often suitable for rapid identification in the field. In addition, the book creatively marks the drug characteristics in the text description and pictures with special signs, which makes the pictures and texts echo each other, has stronger contrast and is more convenient for readers to accurately identify drugs. Most of the selected prescriptions have been used in clinic for a long time, with simple ingredients and definite curative effect, which is very practical. It can be expected that the publication of these two books will be well received by readers.