Is keeping healthy a verb or a noun? It originally refers to a medical activity to maintain life, enhance physical fitness and prevent diseases through various methods, thus prolonging life. Raise, that is, the meaning of nursed back to health, maintenance and tonic; Life means living, surviving and growing. In the modern sense, "health preservation" refers to the active physical and mental maintenance activities for material and spirit according to the laws of human life process.

Maintenance refers to following the law of life, through moderate exercise, plus external care and other means, so that the body function and external skin can rest and restore their due functions, which is the first level of health care; Self-cultivation refers to broadening one's horizons, understanding one's mind and studying extensively through the cultivation and promotion of one's own moral quality.

Let the body and mind have a rest and cultivation, so as to achieve the purpose of cultivating the mind and nourishing the nature; Nourishing refers to nourishing and conditioning the whole body according to the laws of the four seasons of heaven and earth, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing diseases and prolonging life. The essence of health preservation is to maintain the five internal organs and prolong life.

Health preservation is a comprehensive science, involving many disciplines, including Chinese medicine, rehabilitation, nutrition, aesthetics, psychology, Chinese studies, physics, chemistry, art, cooking, kinematics, Taoism and so on.

The meaning of modern health care: under the guidance of Chinese and western medical theories, with the help of scientific pictures and texts, music, behavior, activities, medical equipment, diet and so on. By adjusting one's living habits, living environment and psychological state, one can adjust one's body and mind, so as to achieve the health care purpose of nip in the bud, eliminate discomfort, promote disease recovery and recover from illness.