Tú Wèishēng 塗蔚生 (fl. 1928) of Xìnyáng 信陽, Henan, was a Republican-period (民國) physician and the author of Tuīná juéwēi 推拿抉微 KR3ee053 — one of the principal Republican-era manuals on pediatric massage (tuīná 推拿). His friend and prefacer Zhāng Shìjié 張士傑 records in the 1928 preface that Tú “graduated from the Yùnán [Henan-South] Teachers’ College in Mínguó 5 [= 1916]” and was about to enter a teaching career when, frustrated by the political conditions, he retreated to his native place and turned to the classics, epigraphy, poetry, and medicine. A local epidemic in his home district forced Tú to begin practicing what he had read; his treatments succeeded; and he thereafter committed himself to medicine as a profession.
Tú’s self-preface, signed Mínguó shíqī nián wùchén Hénán Xìnyáng Tú Wèishēng 民國十七年戊辰河南信陽塗蔚生 (1928, wùchén 6th month, 20th day), gives the autobiographical account behind the book: he had been schooled in the Nèijīng / Nánjīng / Shānghán classics and treated pediatric patients with adult-medicine doses, with reasonable success, but discovered that the difficulty of administering medication to small children made tuīná a desirable alternative. He apprenticed himself locally to a tuīná expert named Táo Shíān 陶石庵 of the Lǐnán 里南 neighborhood, and acquired the three principal tuīná monographs of the late-Míng-to-Qīng canon — Xià Yǔzhù’s Yòukē tiějìng, Chén Zǐshān’s Tuīná guǎngyì, and Xià Yīngbái’s Bǎochì tuīná — and concluded that each was insufficient. From the winter of yǐchǒu (1925), while trapped in besieged Xìnyáng under General Jiǎng’s blockade, he began the long compilation that became Tuīná juéwēi, finishing the manuscript in the autumn of wùchén (1928) at Kāifēng 汴垣 (= 開封).
He is otherwise not well-attested in CBDB or the standard Chinese biographical databases for the Republican period; his record survives chiefly through his published work and through entries in the Zhōngyī rénwù cídiǎn.