Traditional Chinese medicine has the theories of "those who are exhausted die", "those who are exhausted die" and "those who are not", which shows that "essence and spirit" are the key to human life. As long as people can maintain their feet, qi and spirit, they can naturally get rid of diseases and prolong their lives. Therefore, the fundamental purpose of Chinese medicine is to preserve health.
"The Book of the Soul Pivot" says: "People's qi and blood are spiritual, so health-preserving people are also alive." The mutual use of qi, blood and spirit of human body is the basis of supporting the body and maintaining life. It can be seen that the ancients attached importance to nursing and nursing.
What is spirit?
Essence is the essence of things. Look at the word "Jing". On the left is the word "rice", and on the right is the simplification of the word "raw". Below the word "raw" are "moon" and "moon", which used to mean "meat" in ancient times. "Rice raw meat" is essence, which refers to the essence of food. The first thing to keep healthy is a good diet. Rice and meat, one meat and one vegetable, are matched with meat and vegetables. A good diet lies in a balanced nutrition. The word "food" that we commonly use now also means this. On the left side of the word "diet" is "moon (meat)", and on the right side is grass, which is vegetarian, indicating that the diet should be combined with meat and vegetables to achieve balance, which is the first priority of health care. The essence is mainly obtained from a good diet.
The word "moon" in the ancient word "essence" is also a variant of the word "Dan", which means that Dan came out of a well, and the word "destiny" on it shows that a good diet is the best panacea.
Qi, the word "Qi" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, is three horizontal lines with different lengths, indicating that the ground gas is transpiration and reaches the sky. Why is it three horizontal? Three horizontal symbols of heaven and earth, the sky is above, the earth is below, and people live in it. Laozi said, "Everything is born." Everything in the world, including people, is produced by the accumulation and dispersion of qi. Qi flows and communicates between heaven and earth and has the energy to promote the growth of all things in heaven and earth. For people, where does qi come from? From the diet. Look at the word "eat", why "eat" is begging, it is "eat and replenish qi" to improve diet and "practice essence".
Broadly speaking, everything is alive. Specifically, there are three kinds, that is, the meaning expressed by the three ways of writing qi. The first is external air. For people, air is the basic demand of human life. A good environment is also important for human survival. For the environment, we often use "local gas" and "clean gas"; The second is the qi of food, which can be written in the word "rice", which is actually the essence that is often said in health care; The third is the vitality of the human body, which Taoism calls "qi".
Look at the word "God" again. The word "God" consists of two words: Yes and God. The word "yes" has two horizontal lines, the top represents the sky, and the bottom is the word "Xiao", which is the image of the sun, the moon and the stars. "God" is the pictograph of lightning. The ancients believed that lightning was boundless and mysterious, so they worshipped it and regarded it as a god. Lightning is one of the most primitive gods worshipped by the ancients, the representative of heaven and the master of all things. The human body is also a small world. Therefore, in the human body, God represents the supreme master of human beings, and is the thought, mind, spirit and soul of human beings and their manifestations. We often say "temperament", "spirit", "heart" and "righteousness". It can be said that God is also a kind of Qi.
China's health preserving theory and even China's philosophy are often monistic, and consciousness and matter are not antagonistic. Between "God and things", "Qi" is unified into one. Vitality is an important part of China's traditional health preservation and health preservation theory.