The four classic works of traditional Chinese medicine are

Four classic works of traditional Chinese medicine: Huangdi Neijing, Difficult Classic, Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Shennong Herbal Classic.

There are also some Chinese medicine textbooks that regard Huangdi Neijing, Treatise on Febrile Diseases, Synopsis of the Golden Chamber and Treatise on Febrile Diseases as four classics. The former is used more.

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Modernization of traditional Chinese medicine:

Modernization of traditional Chinese medicine is often used to describe the social, scientific and cultural changes that have taken place in the field of traditional Chinese medicine since modern times. According to Magnarella's definition, modernization is an all-encompassing global process of scientific, cultural and social changes that a developing society experiences in order to acquire some characteristics of a developed industrial society.

The core of TCM modernization is TCM's "liberation of humanity" and "liberation of productivity (efficiency)", which is sometimes called "westernization" because it started from western societies such as Europe and America, but it does not belong exclusively to western societies or western medicine.

Modernization can be understood as four sub-processes:

The development of technology. Theoretical innovation, ideological change and discipline progress.

However, the postwar years soon showed that even the word "Westernization", which expanded its meaning, could not fully express the way of communication in the postwar world. In order to meet the needs of this actual situation, the new word "modernization" came into being. Because it can concisely express all similar wishes for building a modern society, regardless of its region and tradition, it has been used all the time.