1. Strong historical awareness.
From the very beginning, Chinese culture starts from the inherent unity of the universe and life, and is a kind of headspring culture. Everything in the future can only be the affirmation and promotion of this headspring idea.
In China, the vast history of the long volume is nothing more than to show our respect for the tradition and the persistence of history, we are both traditional defenders, but also the interpreter of culture. Such a strong historical consciousness is reflected in the culture of traditional Chinese medicine, which has created the vast commentary and works of traditional Chinese medicine. This development model, which combines creation with explanation and innovation with inheritance, guarantees the continuity and inheritance of TCM development, and makes the medical theories, expressions and evaluation standards of thousands of years have a systematic unity.
2. Practical rationality serving the reality.
This kind of practical reason is neither dialectics that emphasizes precise concept nor negative dialectics. It is a dialectic that stresses the philosophy of life and emphasizes harmony and complementarity. It is satisfied with the general and vague overall intuitive grasp of things. Chinese medicine is the perfect embodiment of the practical rational spirit serving the reality. The development of TCM theory is always subordinate to the progress of clinical medicine, which is either a theoretical summary of experience or a therapeutic theory.
3.Organic naturalism.
Organic naturalism refers to the refusal of the ancient Chinese ideological circle to view the world with any form of supernaturalism or mechanism, which is "the unity of heaven and man". This organic view of nature has kept the traditional Chinese medicine practice alive for thousands of years.
4. About transcending language.
Chinese culture likes to emphasize its ethereal and elegant spiritual realm, and there is no strict definition of anything. Therefore, when people communicate their own experience, they will feel the limitation of language and often use symbols and metaphors. This linguistic dilemma is also reflected in traditional Chinese medicine, which is one of the reasons why it is difficult to call it medicine. Only after more than ten years of development can modern medicine truly explain and answer scientifically and rigorously the whole system of Chinese medicine which has been induced and constructed by thousands of years of experience.
