Fang Yizhong has participated in the National Gourd Culture and Art Festival at his own expense for 10 consecutive years. In 2014, his gourd pyrography skills were included in the list of "Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage" of Binzhou City, and he has become a veritable "Gourd King".

On the 15th, in Dongguliu Village, Shuiwan Town, Wudi County, Fang Yizhong was pruning the crane-head gourd and doing gourd pyrography. Fang Yizhong, 50 years old this year, has been professionally engaged in gourd pyrography creation and selling it online through Taobao stores for more than ten years. In order to achieve "sustainable development" in the creation of artistic gourds, Fang Yizhong has begun to explore business opportunities in gourds in recent years. He not only sells artistic gourds online and offline, but also transfers 12 acres of land to plant more than 50 kinds of ornamental gourds. At present, he has also developed from the previous simple creation of gourd paintings to a long-chain model integrating marketing gourd paintings, gourd seeds, plain gourds, gourd packaging, etc., and his annual income has increased from tens of thousands of yuan to the current three or four hundred thousand yuan per year.