Compared with medical knowledge, the life values in Huangdi Neijing are more precious.

When it comes to Huangdi Neijing, everyone's first reaction is professional medical books about disease treatment and health care, and most of the lectures on Huangdi Neijing on the market are also about how to maintain health and care. Searching Huangdi Neijing on the Internet tells us that it is still the earliest medical classic in China and one of the four classic works of traditional medicine.

In fact, positioning Huangdi Neijing only as a specialized medical book for health preservation and treatment is a limitation of understanding Huangdi Neijing. It is not only a medical book, but also a book about life itself. Compared with medical knowledge, the more precious wealth of Huangdi Neijing is the humanistic life values behind its medical knowledge. Huangdi Neijing left us the most precious wealth, which is the cognition of life itself and tells us what the best state of life should be.

Abraham maslow, a famous American psychologist and the pioneer of the third generation psychology, put forward the hierarchy theory of human needs, which is also known as Maslow's theory, in the book Theory of Human Motivation published by 1943. He put forward that the highest level of human needs is self-realization, which is the highest level of human needs, and the so-called self-realization means that a person realizes his personal ideals and ambitions. I will give full play to my personal ability and accomplish everything commensurate with my ability. Self-realization is also an effort to realize one's potential, and try one's best to make oneself more and more the person one expects and make oneself perfect.

As early as thousands of years ago, our ancestors clearly put forward a similar theory in Huangdi Neijing, directly pointing out that the meaning of life lies in self-realization, and also clearly telling us the essence of self-realization.

The spirit is carefree and cheerful, and the heart is desolate and quiet. No matter what you eat, it feels sweet, and what you wear looks good. You can accept yourself from all levels, and you are very satisfied with yourself. But this kind of satisfaction is not passive acceptance of passive degeneration, but a kind of self-satisfaction that is detached from things, not enslaved by various external desires, and can really be your own master. Regardless of IQ, you can have independent self-will. Actively focusing on the experience of self-life and living the true self, that is, harmony, is the healthiest state of life, and it is also the state of life that everyone should pursue, that is, Confucius said that "a scholar is determined to be in the Tao", and self-realization of harmony has nothing to do with IQ and position, and everyone can achieve it, so it is not desirable to compete with each other, so the person is so simple.

From the very beginning, The Theory of Ancient Naivety tells the story of the Yellow Emperor. Its essence is to set a direction for us and tell us the process of life itself. It's not just the Yellow Emperor who was born with God. We are all born with God.

Being born as a god does not mean being able to communicate with the so-called gods outside, but that everyone can eat and see when he is born, with strong self-perception, special sensitivity in body and mind, and full of authenticity. However, with the growth of age and the sharpening of life, many people will gradually become dull or even numb, and become insensitive to many phenomena in nature and life, thus losing their strong awareness in infancy. However, the life of the Yellow Emperor was weak but capable, young and white, long and sensitive, and successful. From birth to the age of weak crown, what he did as an adult, following heaven and nature, showed us his lifelong self-improvement until he reached the peak of his life.

As the saying goes, man struggles upwards, water flows downwards, and the Yellow Emperor strives for self-improvement. The process of climbing the peak of life sets the direction of life for us, and self-improvement is also the core value of China culture. The first divination of the Book of Changes tells us that the heaven is strong, and the gentleman strives for self-improvement. All the fairy tales of the Chinese nation, whether it is the goddess mending the sky, Dayu harnessing the water, Yugong Yishan and Jingwei filling the sea, are striving for self-improvement.

Truth is a high-level word in China culture. We call the highest standard of truth, Buddhism and Taoism call powerful language truth, and Huangdi Neijing divides people who have attained the Tao into four levels, of which the highest level is called reality. Similarly, Huangdi Neijing tells us that the highest state of life is innocence and perfection. The opening of Huangdi Neijing is called the theory of ancient naivety, which determines the direction of life for us. Innocent and complete. It is our children who can best express their innocence. They live truly, without any affectation or falsehood.

Laozi said, "Changde never leaves, but belongs to the baby." The highest realm pursued by sages, like a newborn baby, returns to a perfect state of innocence.

This passage in Neijing directly points out the destination of life, and the state we should have must be able to end, which is what we often call a good end.

Five Blessingg's last blessing in Shang Shu Hong Fan: A good death is not only a long life, but also a state of life when you leave. When you are near the end of your life, there are no worries and worries in your heart, you have no physical illness, you leave this world calmly and freely, and you can even predict the time and settle down. Observing the people around us, few people can have a good end, and most people leave with pain, love and even resentment.

For death, the attitude of the ancients is more not fear but the return of life. Huai Nan Zi said, "Life is false, and death will return." The ancients believed that compared with the continuous development and expansion of scientific and technological civilization, human spiritual civilization is constantly returning, not developing. Therefore, the ancients said that after taking a road of no return, the best destination of life is to return to the source of life and to the end of life.

Conclusion: Compared with medical knowledge, Huangdi Neijing has more life value. The theory of ancient naivety at the beginning of Huangdi Neijing tells us how to know life, what the state of life should be, how to live and die, how to strive for self-improvement, and how to realize self-worth as much as possible. This is the meaning of life.