The basic principle of ancient medical health preservation in China is that people should conform to the laws of nature. For example, in spring, there should be a kind of vitality, but in winter, it should not be too ostentatious and divergent, and everything is in the dark. Chinese medicine also advocates that health care varies from time to time, from place to place and from person to person.

Under the guidance of the basic principles of health care, China's original health care technology has been gradually established through successive dynasties, and has been continuously developed and improved, and finally formed a variety of cultivation techniques such as dynamic health care, diet health care, self-cultivation and mental health care.