What kind of intangible cultural heritage does traditional medicine belong to?

Folk traditional knowledge and practice about nature and the universe.

Ten categories of intangible cultural heritage are: folk literature, traditional music, traditional dance, traditional drama, folk art, traditional sports, entertainment acrobatics, traditional art, traditional skills, traditional medicine and folk customs.

Traditional medicine is the general name of traditional Chinese medicine, a representative project of intangible cultural heritage announced by the State Council, mainly traditional Chinese medicine. Including Chinese medicine culture, ethnic medicine, acupuncture, osteopathy, characteristic therapy, Chinese medicine preparation, Chinese medicine processing, and cognition of life and disease.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a medical and pharmaceutical system that reflects people's understanding of life, health and diseases in China. It has a long history and tradition, and unique theory and technical methods. Traditional Chinese medicine is not only China's traditional medical thought and technology of saving lives, but also the concentrated expression of the essence of China's traditional culture. His thoughts and practical methods contain profound China's philosophical wisdom.

Historical background of traditional Chinese medicine:

In ancient times, the ancestors of the Chinese nation gradually discovered that some animals, plants and minerals could relieve pain and prolong life in their long-term life practice, so they began to look for drugs and methods to prevent and treat diseases and improve health. The so-called "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs" was a true portrayal at that time.

In Xia and Shang dynasties, the invention of wine and soup helped to improve the effect of medication. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, there began to be a specific division of labor among food doctors, disease doctors, selected doctors and veterinarians.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Bian Que, who was revered as an imperial doctor by later generations, summarized the experience of his predecessors and put forward the method of "looking, smelling, asking and feeling", which laid the foundation for clinical diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the publication of Huangdi Neijing, a classic of Taishan Beidou in the history of traditional Chinese medicine, marked the development of traditional Chinese medicine from simple clinical experience accumulation to systematic theoretical summary, forming a rigorous and complete theoretical framework of traditional Chinese medicine.

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