“Heaven-and-Human Oneness"has been an important concept of traditional Chinese philosophy,interpreted by different schools of philosophy in detail.This idea,the“mutual communication”between heaven...
The Impression of China
In Chinese culture,“Heaven-and-Human Oneness"is one of the few extremely important core concepts,reflecting Chinese world outlook,life view and their fundamental values....
China has been well reputed in the world as“Land of Ceremony and Propriety",which has been an essential part of the...
Ban Gu,a great historian,classified rites and music under four administrative measures,that is,“Rites gave the proper measure to the people's minds;music...
China is a country rich in the culture of rites and music,and there had produced three important literatures called“three rites",namely,the...
The use of rites and music dates back to the primitive worship of our ancestors in the remote past.“Only two...
China was one of a few world's birth-places of agriculture,and also one of the important places of the origin for...
1.The embryonic stage of agricultural technology:In the Neolithic Age(about 10,000-4,000 years ago),Chinese primitive agriculture,under the basis of fishing and hunting...
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal,the Grand Canal of China,is also known as the longest canal or artificial river in the world.Starting...
Water has been one of the essential conditions guaranteeing the agricultural production,but flood could wreak havoc on the lives and...
Our ancestors had already raised dogs,pigs,cattle,sheep,and chickens about 8,000 years ago,but horse-raising started comparatively late,the domestication of these animalshad ocurred...
Ancient Chinese agricultural production and development were revolved around the following four themes: (I)The Cultivation and Introduction of Crops The...
Traditional Chinese Medicine perceives the human organism and its processes as flows of Qi,somewhat like the currents in a sea.The...
Acupuncture is a therapy that uses the insertion of tiny thread-like needles to specific points along meridians that cross the...
Principle of Treatment Based on Different Conditions Disease is the outcome of the struggle between body resistance and pathogenic factors....
In TCM there are four diagnostic methods:①Inspection is a method of diagnosis in which the doctor understands and predicts the...
The Zang-Fu theory explains the physiological functions,pathological changes,and mutual relationships of every Zang and Fu organ.In Traditional Chinese Medicine the...
Qi,Blood and Fluid are fundamental substances of the human body which sustain the normal physiological functions of the organs and...
There are two main cycles involved in the Five Elements:the Sheng and the Ke.The Sheng Cycle is more"Yang,"expansive,oriented with an...
Another powerful tool of analysis in TCM is called the Five Elements(or Phases)Theory. Being in harmony with the universe was...