The relationship between Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese culture

Chinese medicine is born and developed on the basis of traditional Chinese culture.

Chinese medicine is directly born out of traditional Chinese culture, and the relationship with traditional cultural thought is particularly close, and the two are interdependent, which is a major feature of Chinese medicine and unique in the world's cultural history.

Traditional Chinese culture refers to the spiritual culture with its own characteristics, which was produced and developed in the region of China in ancient times or a long time ago, and has been handed down from generation to generation. Chinese traditional culture is a long-term fusion of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, three schools of thought, the trinity, inseparable, with Confucianism as the main body.

Confucianism, the unity of mankind, people-oriented, and the value of harmony, the mediocrity and other ideas; Taoism, the disaster and happiness, the unity of opposites, calm and inaction, and other ideas; Buddhism, the equality of all living beings, compassion and other ideas, have a profound impact on the formation and development of Chinese medicine. In particular, the concept of "unity of heaven and mankind", which emphasizes the harmony and unity of human beings and nature, is not only one of the essences of traditional Chinese culture, but also directly creates the basic framework of Chinese medicine, and finds the starting point and destination for the beginning and development of Chinese medicine.

The holistic concept of Chinese medicine, which is based on the concept of the correspondence between heaven and man, the doctrine of the five elements, and the therapeutic principles of yin and yang, are all imprinted with the philosophy of ancient China.

Man's cognitive ability is always limited to a certain extent in a certain period of time, due to the limitations of the cognitive means, people's knowledge of the natural world at that time was very limited, full of doubts, contradictions and the feeling of incompetence, not only can't accurately describe the objective world with precise language, but also can't verify the correctness of the theory, can only be from the theory to the theory, all the way to the poor push.

Expressed in Chinese medicine, it is the uncertainty of theoretical connotation and the infinite expansion of extension. Theoretical self-explanatory, unverifiable and interpretation of the ambiguity, ambiguity, these have long been criticized, and with the development of the times, Chinese medicine is increasingly inclined to introspection and the lack of outside, the development of Chinese medicine and the development of science and technology is out of touch, all of which have become the later tide of reflection on traditional culture Chinese medicine has been frequently criticized by the fatal wound.