Why should students understand and identify with Chinese medicine culture?

Let students understand and identify with the culture of traditional Chinese medicine

-A new mission and new topics for the revitalization and development of the culture of traditional Chinese medicine

Sponsored by the Society for Education and Research on Innovative Talents and the China Association for Maternal and Child Health, the "Seminar for Principals of Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture in Schools "February 14 held in Beijing, Chinese medicine culture into the campus again attracted people's attention. Promote Chinese medicine culture into the campus, can let students fully understand and identify with the culture of Chinese medicine, so that this national essence to win a wide audience base, for the promotion of China's Chinese medicine culture revitalization has long-term significance. In the implementation process, how to innovate ways and means, so that the essence of Chinese medicine culture on students have a beneficial impact? To this end, the reporter went into the seminar, into the school, listen to experts and scholars, teachers and students of insights and practical insights.

"If you use a word to describe Chinese medicine, which word would you choose?" Class teacher Sun Jingju asked this question in the opening questionnaire of the Chinese medicine course at the high school affiliated with Renmin University of China. "The students chose the words ji shi, metaphysics, nourishment, harmonization, tradition, and complexity ...... to express their understanding of Chinese medicine." During the course, how to use Chinese medicine to treat colds, acne, headaches, insomnia, allergic rhinitis, foot odor, body cold, and myopia became the most frequently asked questions by the students. From questions to fun, two semesters down, the students know a lot of knowledge of Chinese medicine, learned some practical health care methods, and even some students organized themselves to shoot a documentary film on Chinese medicine, "Qihuang in the Shengshi", to express their own understanding of and concern for Chinese medicine.

With the pursuit of a healthy lifestyle, people tend to be rational in their understanding and thinking about traditional culture. The thinking mode, cognitive style and value orientation embedded in the culture of Chinese medicine are increasingly understood, recognized and accepted by society at large, and the public's demand for knowledge and cultural products of Chinese medicine is increasing day by day. "Introducing Chinese medicine into primary and secondary school campuses is an inevitable trend, and a new mission and a new topic for educators." Liu Pengzhi, a member of the Central Research Center for Culture and History and president of the Society for Innovative Talent Education, said firmly.

Primary school students learn to try weighing Chinese herbs at a Chinese medicine hall in Hefei, Anhui province. Chen Sanhu photo/light photo

"This is a great thing that will be of great merit in the present generation and benefit in the autumn"

"There is no need to talk about the turquoise vegetable beds, the smooth stone well railings, the tall soapberry trees, the purple and red mulberries; nor is there any need to talk about the chirping cicadas chanting long in the leaves of the trees, the fat wasps crouching on the cauliflowers The light and swift call of the sky (lark) suddenly from the grass straight to the clouds in the sky to go ...... "Talking about Mr. Lu Xun's" From the Hundred-Clover Garden to the House of Three Flavors ", academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, vice president of the Huang Luqi has another understanding - -Multiple Chinese medicines appear in this passage.

"A small example can be seen, the culture of Chinese medicine has long been unobtrusive in our campus, our classroom, our textbooks, just undetected." Academician Huang Luqi told reporters with a smile.

Liu Pengzhi, president of the Association for Innovative Talent Education and Research, who initiated the seminar, said, "As educators, we should implant the cultural genes of traditional Chinese medicine in the hearts of our students, and inspire and awaken their national cultural self-awareness and self-confidence. She said, "As educators, we should implant such cultural genes as Chinese medicine in the hearts of our students to inspire and awaken their national cultural consciousness and self-confidence." In January this year, Liu Pengzhi submitted a motion at the fifth meeting of the 14th Beijing Municipal People's Congress, suggesting the popularization and promotion of the basic knowledge of Chinese medicine in Beijing's primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, and proposing that Chinese medicine, such as tuina and other health care techniques, be introduced into the schools, classrooms and teaching materials.

Liu Pengzhi said the main goal of getting Chinese medicine into schools is not to cultivate a number of famous Chinese medicine practitioners, but to play a unique role in teaching and educating people about the culture of Chinese medicine.

Students of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine mix Chinese medicines at the on-campus TCM center. Xinhua News Agency

"The culture of Chinese medicine is y compatible with traditional Chinese culture, reflecting the wisdom of Chinese culture in grasping the relationship between human beings and nature, and also allowing Chinese medicine to go beyond general empirical science, with cultural attributes of humanistic care and pluralistic values, and a system of medical sciences that is closely intertwined with culture." Zhang Wenkang, former Minister of Health, believes that carrying out the activities of TCM culture in schools is not only a practical need for applying TCM for health care, but also a strategic need for the inheritance, development and innovation of TCM science. "Let the culture of Chinese medicine into the campus is a great event that is of great merit and benefit in the current generation." Academician Huang Luqi said.

"Bury a seed of trust in Chinese medicine in children's hearts"

The cultural inheritance of Chinese medicine is a long-standing topic, but letting the culture of Chinese medicine into schools is still a new thing.

In 2012, Beijing launched a comprehensive "Chinese medicine culture into the campus" activities, is the first to promote the culture of Chinese medicine into the campus of one of the cities.

"We propose to make Beijing the cultural center of Chinese medicine in the country, which can be not only how many Chinese medicine experts we have, how many Chinese medicine hospitals, how many museums, the key is to have a culture, especially to let the children have this culture." Over the years, Tu Zhitao, a member of the party committee of the Beijing Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission and director of the Beijing Municipal Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is y impressed.

Li Ping, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, hopes to "plant a seed of trust in Chinese medicine in children's hearts." From the Shijia School's Chinese medicine experience course, Yucai School's Shennong Materia Medica course, and Beijing Primary School's Four Seasons course,......Li Ping realized that the culture of traditional Chinese medicine has to be closely linked with the teaching system, which is a comprehensive course, interdisciplinary, and needs to be formed by the integration of several courses, including language, math, biology, and labor.

Students of the Southwest University High School carry out a special project on Chinese medicine, "Research on Fast Breeding of Coix Seed Germplasm Resource Materials by Group Cultivation" in the laboratory. File photo

For example, Yucai School offers a series of courses called "Respecting the Ancestral Farmer and Loving Herbs," which are taught in grades with progressive content: in the second grade, they start with "Beijing Medicine," plant commonly used traditional Chinese medicines, and set up a campus "Potted Herb Garden," which is the first of its kind in China. The second grade starts with "Beijing Medicine", planting commonly used Chinese medicines and establishing a "Potted Herb Garden" on campus; the third grade records the growth process of the herb while planting "Beijing Medicine"; the fourth grade learns the efficacy, formula and production process of the tea drink; and the fifth grade masters the mulberry's growth pattern, medicinal value and the culture of mulberry silkworms through visiting and learning.

Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine President Xu Anlong believes that the advocacy of Chinese medicine culture into the campus, but also can not blindly leap forward, we must abide by the spirit of rigor, science, can not speak of Chinese medicine as an esoteric and mysterious things, it is a practical science, can not exaggerate the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine to cure the disease, to be said, words, and must not be successful cases as a one-size-fits-all experience.

Wang Guoqiang, deputy director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission and director of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, believes that "Chinese medicine knowledge contests can be held among students, such as the Huangdi Neijing knowledge contest and the Materia Medica knowledge contest, so that they can not only learn the sages' understanding of disease and health, but also experience the philosophical thinking and knowledge of ancient Chinese language. "

Meanwhile, the cooperation between universities and secondary schools is deepening and strengthening. In the "Chinese medicine culture into the school principal seminar", the People's University of China Affiliated High School Joint School and Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Northeast Yucai Education Group and Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine signed a cooperation agreement. Gao Chen, principal of Northeast Yucai Education Group, said that the national curriculum will be enriched and expanded around the core values of Chinese medicine culture to penetrate the knowledge of Chinese medicine; at the same time, elective courses will be offered and the concepts of life, health, disease, treatment, and wellness in Chinese medicine culture will be compiled into the school-based curriculum. "Chinese medicine universities and university medical schools should strengthen their support for the introduction of Chinese medicine culture into schools and provide good services in terms of training teachers, cooperating in the preparation of teaching materials, and ****together organizing activities. I hope that after a few years of hard work, primary and secondary school students will consciously identify with and love the culture of Chinese medicine." Xu Anlong thinks this way.