Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a knowledge system composed of natural science, social science and humanities, which reveals the essence and development law of objective things, permeates and transforms each other, and has internal relevance, similarity, unity and diversity, or a complete and unique discipline system formed in the field of life science in ancient China. The characteristic of TCM is that it is directly born out of China traditional culture and is closely related to traditional cultural thought. The continuation of ancient culture in China is the cornerstone of the continuation and development of traditional Chinese medicine.
1 consistency between China culture and the spiritual core of traditional Chinese medicine
The traditional medicine of the four ancient civilizations in the world, only Chinese medicine, as a wonderful flower of Chinese culture, can be continued. Chinese medicine is rooted in the traditional culture of China, and the core of traditional culture is the philosophy of Chinese medicine. China's philosophy is one of the philosophical types that developed independently in the history of world philosophy. It devoted itself to studying the origin of the world and the laws of historical evolution, and formed its own unique national view of nature, history, ethics, epistemology and methodology. For example, The Book of Changes is the earliest profound philosophical classic in ancient China, covering heaven, earth and man. It is the first of China's cultural classics and the source of a hundred schools of thought. "Yi" has three meanings: ① Variation: refers to change. Philosophically speaking, change is the eternal truth only when there is relative stillness and no absolute stillness. Everything is changing all the time, and the only unchanging law in the world is change. What Chinese medicine sees in clinic is the process of a person's continuous movement, development and change yesterday, today and tomorrow, and then uses the thinking of movement change to understand human diseases. ② Not easy: "Those who are not easy through the ages are called classics." Refers to absolute change, there must be something constant. ③ Simplicity: In the process of implementation, there must be the simplest path. The philosophical spirit of the Book of Changes is a kind of wisdom to control simplicity and complexity, such as looking at things from the perspective of yin and yang.
The core essence of China's traditional culture is neutralization, and Chinese medicine is actually the medicine of neutralization, referred to as Chinese medicine for short. "The winner is impartial, but in no hurry." The doctrine of the mean is the best condition for the occurrence and development of things, and it is also the highest principle or pursuit of TCM in preventing and treating diseases. For example, Treatise on Febrile Diseases says: "Those who reconcile yin and yang heal themselves." Therefore, "peace and duration" is the best state of life. Furthermore, from a philosophical point of view, the Analects of Confucius talks about social ethics, and ethics is the "use" of philosophy. Reading of the analects of confucius can help us respect life, so there is a saying that "the Analects of Confucius governs the world". Therefore, the development of traditional Chinese medicine in modern times still needs to retain its philosophical characteristics, and it is also inseparable from the guidance and participation of philosophy.
2. The ancient cultural connotation of Chinese medicine in China.
2. 1 conforms to the natural relationship between man and nature.
The relationship between man and nature is the research object of China's ancient philosophy, and it is also a theoretical issue concerned by traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine advocates the way of embodying nature. When dealing with the relationship between man and nature, the highest purpose is the contribution of nature. In order to restore the natural balance, health preservation only seeks to preserve nature as much as possible, which has become the first task of Chinese medicine.
2.2 the overall concept of naive system theory
The ontological basis of TCM theory is China's ancient view of vitality and nature. According to the theory of primordial qi, the origin of everything in the world is qi, "Qi is different." Invisible and metaplastic vitality constitutes the holistic view of China's ancient "pandemic". The holistic view of TCM pursues metaphysical harmony and perfection, but refuses metaphysical decomposition and combination.
2.3 the methodology of valuing god over form
One of the values of China's traditional culture is to value morality over tools. There is a sentence in "Nine Needles and Twelve Elements of Lingshu", which reveals from one side that the methodology of traditional Chinese medicine pays more attention to spirit than form. Therefore, although the theory of Zangxiang is the basis and core of TCM theory, the viscera function of TCM does not or mainly does not come from this morphological structure. Therefore, some scholars believe that the zang-fu organs in traditional Chinese medicine have no substantive concept, but are only "functional complexes", so they have the characteristics of attaching importance to spirit and neglecting shape.
2.4 get carried away thinking artistic conception
"Cohesion" said: "Sages do their best to set up images, set up hexagrams to make false ones, and do their best to make a cohesive device." Speech, as the representative of image, and image, as the representative of meaning, are tools to be proud of. The thinking process should not be limited to words and images, but should be like forgetting words and images. Only meaning is the highest realm and final destination of thinking. "Doctor, meaning also" typically embodies the thinking characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, that is, to understand the human body through the external appearance of "image" and to build a physiological and pathological model of the human body based on image. "Like, like also. Dirty living inside, the shape is seen outside, so it is called Tibetan elephant. " It is not difficult to find that the thinking process of forgetting the image depends largely on an unspeakable understanding and intuition. Physicians in ancient and modern times have emphasized this "proud" effort of intuitive knowledge, and only in this way can we reach the highest level of Chinese medicine academic.
2.5 Value Orientation of Ancient Classics
The theory and clinical paradigm of traditional Chinese medicine were basically established as early as the times of Neijing and Treatise on Febrile Diseases. In Neijing, the principle that "the principle must be observed, and one cannot leave Zhongjing" has become an unchangeable creed. There is almost no paradigm revolution in the strict sense, and the value orientation of respecting ancient classics is its important internal cause. For example, Wu Youxing's theory of "rage" breaks through the traditional six evil modes and contains the seeds of scientific revolution, but his value orientation of respecting the ancient classics can only be regarded as "non-sage" and "creating differences and deceiving people". From this perspective, Chinese medicine has a strong value orientation of respecting the ancient and the classics.
2.6 Ethical pursuit of medical benevolence
"The healer, benevolence also. A benevolent gentleman must be loyal to love "(Medical Law). "Anyone who is a doctor must correct himself first and then correct himself. The so-called "self-cultivation" in the discussion of pediatric health is to strengthen self-cultivation and have a caring heart. Secondly, doctors need to have superb medical skills. Sun Simiao summarized the traditional Chinese medical ethics as "great doctors are sincere", which profoundly revealed the ethical pursuit of taking benevolence as medicine, and was an organic integration of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit.
3 abstract
In a word, TCM is rich in ancient cultural connotation, which not only conforms to the natural view of the relationship between man and nature and the holistic view of simple system theory, but also has the characteristics of attaching importance to god over form in methodology, "respecting the ancient" and "taking medicine as benevolence" in value orientation and ethical pursuit, and being complacent in thinking artistic conception. Therefore, it is necessary to deeply understand the connotation of ancient culture in China, so as to continuously promote the healthy development of Chinese medicine.
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