A Study On The Health Preservation Culture In Wei, Jin And Northern And Southern Dynasties

Health preservation, namely adopt various measures to preserve health toachieve the purpose of prolonging life. Way back in the period of primitivesociety, our ancestors began to carry on some activities about health preservation withthe purpose of nourishing life, which was clearly documented in history. The Springand autumn and the Warring States period was the first golden age in the history ofChinese traditional health preservation culture. In this period, numerous thinkers andcontention of hundreds schools of thought appeared, each expressed it’s own point ofview on the theme of life nourishing and health preservation, which provided afavorable social condition for the prosperity of the culture of health preservation inthe later time. Through the accumulation and precipitation of the Ch’in and HanDynasties, when the time comes to Wei, Chin and Southern and NorthernDynasties, health preservation culture reached to the second development peak oftraditional history of health preserving culture, which was closely related withthe prevailing political economic status and the special social and culturalbackgrounds. The content of health preservation culture was rich and colorful and theschools was multitudinous and numerous, which formed a lot of different thoughtsand methods about life nourishing. They absorbed each other during the process ofcommunication to and learning from the other side, as a result, it left behindmany cultural heritage for future generations about health preservation. Due to thediversity of involved people and the stability of the historical inheritance, the healthpreservation culture in the field of social life during the period of Wei, Chin andSouthern and Northern Dynasties was very worthy of attention as well. Theconnotation of life nourishing culture in Wei, Chin and Southern and NorthernDynasties was mixed with goodness and badness, which decided that we should adoptdialectical method to analyze it, select the essence and discard the dross.This paper mainly discusses the health preservation culture of Wei, ChinSouthern and Northern Dynasties from the following four aspects. The first part of the study mainly investigates the origin and evolution of thehealth preservation culture of Wei, Chin and the northern and Southern Dynasties. Bytracing back to the health preservation culture of pre Ch’in, Ch’in and HanDynasties, we are clear of the development vein and the development trend of thehealth preservation culture in Wei, Chin and the northern and Southern Dynasties. Thehealth preservation culture in pre Ch’in, Ch’in and Han dynasties laid the foundationfor the prosperity of the culture of life preservation in Wei, Chin and Southern andNorthern Dynasties. At the same time, it investigates the politicalsystem, social economy and ideology and culture modification which had a directimpact on the formation of health preservation culture of Wei, Chin and Southern andNorthern Dynasties, and thereby summarizes that the special social and history statusof Wei, Chin and Southern and Northern Dynasties was the main factor whichaffected the formation of the diversification of health preservation culture in Wei,Chin and Southern and Northern Dynasties.The second part of this article mainly focuses on the main healthpreservation schools of Wei, Chin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. The healthpreserving thoughts, health preserving proposal and health preserving methods as wellas representative figures and their representative work with regard to healthpreserving of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Metaphysics and the traditionalChinese medicine are all discussed in this paper, then their characteristics in healthpreserving are summarized and concluded well and truly. That is, to be short, theConfucianism emphasized cultivating ethic, the Taoism emphasized preserving body,the Buddhism emphasized preserving heart, the Metaphysics focused on nourishingspirit, and the traditional Chinese medicine tended to use medicine to keep health. Atthe same time, the chapter is also the main section of this article on the whole.The third part of this article mainly focuses on the health preservation cultureon the areas of social life in Wei, Chin and Northern and Southern Dynasties. It relatesto the basic necessities of life, literature and art, entertainment activities, traditionalfestivals and other health contents, which includes rich and colorful culture of life preserving, consisted of health preserving practices from all social classes especiallythe middle and lower classes. It is the most complicated and numerous part of the lifenourishing culture in Wei, Chin and northern and Southern Dynasties, whichis worthy of being studied more deeply in the research work in the future for us. Atthe same time, this chapter is also an important section which more attention should tobe payed to in the whole article.The fourth part of this article mainly summarizes the characteristics andsignificance of the life preserving culture in the Wei, Chin and southern and northernDynasties. The dominant aspects of its characteristics of Wei, Chin and southern andnorthern Dynasties is mainly reflected in the diversity of the connotation of the healthpreservation culture, the innovation of health preserving methods, the popular ofMetaphysics health preservation and the domination of Taoist health preservation, thisis also the reason why it can attract lots people’s attention in the river of Chinesehistory in several thousands of years. The culture of health preservation in Wei, Chinand Southern and Northern Dynasties played an important role in the healthpreservation culture history, and it built on past achievements and strive for new progressfor a long time. In the meantime, it had a profound effect on the Sui and TangDynasties and also in the later period. In addition, there are also many unreasonableparts in the culture of health preservation in the Wei, Chin and Southern and NorthernDynasties, this paper also makes related analysis on the limitation,and selects the essence and discards the dross. Because of the dialectical view, thejudge with regard to the health preservation culture in the Wei, Chin and southern andnorthern Dynasties which it made is scientific and rational.