Why is TCM called the art of Huang Qi?

Huang Qi, the collective name of Zeebe and Huangdi, is said to be the ancestor of doctors. Huangdi Neijing, the foundation work of TCM, was written in the genre of Questions and Answers between Huangdi and Zebo, so it was called Huangdi Neijing by later generations. And from this extension, it refers to orthodox Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine, and it is synonymous with Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine. At the same time, the new words of "Huang Qi" combination also have their corresponding meanings. For example, "the skill of Huang Qi" and "the way of Huang Qi" refer to the academic or medical technology and theory of traditional Chinese medicine; "Qihuangjia" refers to China doctors and Chinese medicine experts; "Huang Qishu" refers to the books of Chinese medicine; "Huang Qi industry" refers to the Chinese medicine industry and so on. The research of Zhi Bo and Huang Qi shows that they are full of China traditional culture, which shows the close relationship between China traditional medicine and its mother culture.

The medical skill of traditional Chinese medicine is usually called "Huang Qi Shu". Huang refers to Xuanyuan Huangdi, and Qi is his courtier Zeebe. According to legend, the Yellow Emperor often sat down with courtiers such as Qi Bo and Lei Gong to discuss medical problems, and asked questions and answers about the causes, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, many of which were recorded in the medical book Huangdi Neijing. Later generations, out of respect for Huangdi and Qi Baishi, called Huang Qi's medical skills TCM, and thought Huangdi Neijing was the origin of TCM theory and the most authoritative classic of TCM. To this day, anyone engaged in the work of traditional Chinese medicine still says that it is necessary to quote the words in Huangdi Neijing.

Why is this classic medical book called Neijing? Because the ancients often called books that had certain rules and had to be learned and mastered as "classics", such as the Confucian Six Classics, Laozi's Tao Te Ching, and the three-character classics for enlightenment education. As for "inside", it is a relative name with "outside". It was also recorded in the ancient Huangdi Neijing, but it was later lost. This is similar to the naming of "inside" and "outside" in Biography of Korean Poetry, Biography of Korean Poetry and Zhuangzi, and has no profound meaning. The addition of Huangdi's name in Neijing also means tracing back to the source, aiming at explaining that China's medical culture originated very early, not really referring to the works left by Huangdi or the works existing in Huangdi's time. In fact, Huangdi Neijing is a work after the Warring States Period, written in Qin and Han Dynasties, and it was not written by one person, but by a group.

Huangdi Neijing includes Su Wen and Ling Shu, and each part is introduced. Su Wen means to study the physiological and pathological problems of people as a material body. The main content of Lingshu is the study of acupuncture, so it is also called Acupuncture Meridian. Spirit is effective, and pivot means confidential and pivotal. The main meaning of "spiritual fulcrum" is that you must master the basic points of acupuncture to be effective.

Huangdi Neijing, as a classic medical work, comprehensively constructed the theoretical system of TCM and laid the foundation for the development of TCM. Its content is profound and magnificent. However, it is not easy to grasp the key points when reading, because it can't be done by one person at a time, so later doctors sorted and classified the original text of Huangdi Neijing, so that each kind of content discussed the same problems, allowing readers to grasp the key points and grasp the pearls. There are many doctors who do this sort of work, among which Jing Lei written by Zhang Ming Jingyue is the most commendable. He re-edited the original text of Huangdi Neijing, and classified it as 12 according to different contents, which played an important role in outlining and facilitating reference. According to Zhang Jingyue's classification, Huangdi Neijing includes the following 12 categories, namely, the theory of taking life, the theory of yin and yang and five elements, the theory of zang-xiang, the theory of meridians, the theory of essence, blood and body fluid, the theory of etiology and pathogenesis, the theory of disease and syndrome, the theory of diagnosis, the theory of academic research, the theory of acupuncture at Shu points and the theory of five movements and six qi.

The content of Huangdi Neijing involves not only medicine, but also philosophy, astronomy, phenology, calendar and many other fields, and demonstrates the medical theory of traditional Chinese medicine with these theories. Therefore, the ancients called the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic "poor in heaven and discipline, low in geography, far away from things and close to the body, and even more difficult to ask." It means to discuss medical problems related to human physiology and pathology in combination with various things between heaven and earth. This is the guiding ideology of "the unity of heaven and man" and "the whole constant movement" in Huangdi Neijing. It can be seen that the fundamental difference between Huangdi Neijing and many other medical books in the world is that it is not a simple medical work. However, only from the medical point of view, its theoretical essence and brilliant achievements not only nurtured doctors of past dynasties and guided clinical practice, but also had a positive impact on the development of world medicine. For example, its discussion of human body surface anatomy, especially the measurement of digestive tract length, is very close to the data of western medicine; It first put forward the concept of blood circulation and realized the difference between systemic circulation and small circulation. These are too numerous to mention. Therefore, physicians in past dynasties attached great importance to Huangdi Neijing, regarded it as the "Sect of Physicians" and became a necessary classic medical book for learning Chinese medicine.

The characters in Huangdi Neijing belong to the ancient prose of Qin and Han Dynasties, which is equivalent to the genre of Fu in style. Therefore, it had a great influence on the traditional Chinese culture in the history of China, and it was a part of the traditional culture of China. Because of this, such a classic medical book is difficult to read in words, so doctors in past dynasties have different detailed annotations. For beginners, you can first choose textbooks such as Selected Reading of Neijing and gradually improve them.

Huangdi Neijing laid the theoretical foundation of traditional Chinese medicine. This book was written in the form of dialogue under the guise of dialogue between the Yellow Emperor and Zeebe. Therefore, it is called the art of Huang Qi.

According to legend, there were three famous doctors during the Huangdi period. Besides Lei Gong and Qi Bo, Yu Yun is the most famous. His medical skill is very clever. Especially in surgery. It is said that he generally does not need soup, needles and massage to treat diseases. However, after the diagnosis of the cause is clear, unless you want to have an operation, you will cut the skin with a knife, dissect the muscle and ligate it. Legend has it that once, when Yu Yu was crossing the river, she found a woman who fell into the water and was salvaged and buried by several people. Yu Yu stopped them from asking how long the victim had been in the water. The man who carried the body said that he had just fallen into the water and died after being fished out. Yu Yu asked them to put the body on the ground. First, they felt the pulse of the deceased, and then looked into the eyes of the deceased. Then they asked someone to find a straw rope, tied the dead man's feet and hung them upside down from the tree. At first, everyone didn't understand why Yu did it. As soon as the deceased was hoisted, he spit out water until he stopped spitting. Yu Yu told people to untie the dead slowly, put his back on the ground, and put his hands on his chest. Finally, he pulled out some of his own hair and observed it on the nostril of the deceased for a while. He found that his head started slowly, and then confidently said to the family of the deceased: "She is still alive, take it home and take good care of it!"

In his later years, the Yellow Emperor sent Cang Xie, tripterygium wilfordii and Zeebe, and spent a long time sorting out medical skills and compiling them into books. However, Cang Xie died before it was made public. Later, Yu Zhi's son Yu Zhi took the book back to his father for revision. Unfortunately, the whole family was caught in a fire, and the house, medical books and their families were reduced to ashes. This may be the reason why Huangdi Neijing has not been found so far!

There are eleven classic physicians recorded in Hanshu Yiwenzhi, but only one is Huangdi Neijing, and the reason remains to be verified. Among them, Huangdi Waijing was lost. According to the seven classics recorded in Han Shu Literature and Art Records, there were Huangdi Neijing, Huangdi Neijing, Bian Que Neijing, Bian Que Waijing, Bai Neijing, Bai Waijing and Bian Pian.