Imperial diet health preservation is based on oriental Chinese medicine science and follows the theoretical basis of ancient medicine on human spine, meridians and viscera. Huangdi Neijing, a classic work of traditional Chinese medicine, puts forward the viewpoint of "preventing diseases before they occur", which shows that people should pay attention to health preservation from the beginning of their lives and prevent old age and diseases. "Huainanzi" says: "Good doctors often treat diseases without diseases, so there is no disease; Sages often cure people without suffering, so there is no suffering. " During the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Zhu Danxi also said: "It is better to raise the disease before it is born." People can't live forever, nor can they "rejuvenate", but it is possible to prevent premature aging and prolong life. This thought of preventing diseases and resisting aging is in the same strain as the sense of hardship in China culture. The Book of Changes says under the copula: "Don't forget danger, don't forget death." This dialectical philosophy, which pays attention to the transformation of contradictions and prevents gradual progress, is the root of the system of "imperial health preservation" China's traditional philosophy attaches great importance to nature as a universal whole, and puts forward the idea of correspondence and induction between heaven and man, arguing that everything in heaven and earth does not exist in isolation, but interacts, interacts and depends on each other. Royal health culture follows this principle.

Influenced by China's long-standing health-preserving thought, emperor health-preserving gradually formed a set of unique ideological principles, which fully reflected the background of China's medicine and traditional culture.