On The High Commissioner For Students Of Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture And Education

It was pointed out in the report of the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China:"In the present era, culture has become a more and more important source of national cohesion and creativity and a factor of growing significance in the competition in overall national strength, and the Chinese people have an increasingly ardent desire for a richer cultural life. We must keep to the orientation of advanced socialist culture, bring about a new upsurge in socialist cultural development, stimulate the cultural creativity of the whole nation, and enhance culture as part of the soft power of our country", and"Promote Chinese culture and build the common spiritual home for the Chinese nation. Chinese culture has been an unfailing driving force for the Chinese nation to keep its unity and make progress from generation to generation. We must have a comprehensive understanding of traditional Chinese culture, keep its essence and discard its dross to enable it to fit in with present-day society, stay in harmony with modern civilization, keep its national character and reflect changes of the times. We will further publicize the fine traditions of Chinese culture and use modern means of science and technology to exploit the rich resources of our national culture."University Students as the culture bearers and promoters are the hope of the nation and the future of the motherland. They are supposed not only to master a solid professional knowledge and skills, but also to improve their own human qualities. The League Central Committee, the Ministry of Education and the National Students Federation organize the implementation of "University Students Quality Development Plan" to guide and assist college students to improve intelligence structure and their full growth of talent. And complete quality education can not be separated from the quality education in the humanities with traditional Chinese culture at the core. Humanistic quality education is not only an important component of quality education but also an important measure to promote quality education. Chinese traditional culture provides a wealth of cultural resources for humanistic quality education. It plays a unique role in the cultivation of the students'physical and mental qualities, cultural qualities and ideological and moral quality. Institutions of higher learning should give full play in the humanities-oriented education of China's traditional culture and find the combination of tradition and reality in practice to realize the organic unity of traditional culture and the reality culture and to cultivate contemporary college students with both ability and political integrity and with strong patriotism.Chinese Medicine is a medical theory system based on Chinese traditional culture with our national characteristics. Its theoretical guiding idea and its specific prescriptions, as well as its theory in health, disease prevention and medical ethics, have its source. Chinese excellent traditional culture has been known to the world for its distinctive Chinese style and Chinese atmosphere and become an outstanding representative of Eastern culture. Chinese medicine is nurtured and developed from the wealth of ancient Chinese culture, and is a product mix of philosophy, natural science and social science. Therefore, Chinese traditional culture has an immeasurable status and role in the quality education of Chinese medicine. It runs through the whole process. It can be said that traditional Chinese culture is the source and driving force for the emergence, growth and development of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Humanasitc characteristics of Traditional Chinese Medicine require that university students majoring in Traditional Chinese Medicine should have a certain degree of humanistic cultivation before they can master the thinking method of traditional culture and grasp the essence of traditional Chinese medicine theory. The status and role of traditional Chinese culture can never be underestimated in the education of TCM quality. In TCM education much attention should be paid to TCM culture so as to cultivate high-quality Chinese medicine professionals with good moral quality, rich cultural quality, physically and mentally healthy quality and innovative spirit, thus to improve the quality of Chinese medicine education and promote the inheritance and development of Traditional Chinese Medicine.In recent years, Chinese medicine recedes from the mainstream medicine under the impact of Western medicine, and is doubted about its rationality, and is looked down upon time and again. Even a lot of high-level intellectuals and public figures extremely deny the traditional medicine. Some university Students majoring in TCM raise doubts about the culture of traditional Chinese medicine and don't study hard at it. The fundamental reason for this is that they lack an identity with and respect for Chinese traditional culture.Therefore, under market economy and in the tide of cultural globalization, highlighting the TCM characteristics should not be ignored for the development of Chinese medicine institutions and the revitalization and growth of the cause of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Institutions of Traditional Chinese Medicine as an important base to train high-quality professionals of traditional Chinese medicine should take up the sacred mission in carrying forward and innovating TCM culture. Attention should be paid to professional quality education and education of Chinese medicine culture. TCM students should establish their professional thought and self-confidence with a view to contributing to the revitalization of Traditional Chinese Medicine.Based on the research of colleges of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the paper, from two aspects of professional education and ideological and moral education, focuses the analysis of the current situation and problems in the education of traditional culture for TCM colleges. Through many classical literatures it demonstrates the lack of the fine traditional culture education is an important reason for the education decline for TCM colleges and discusses the necessity and effective measures to strengthen education of fine traditional culture in TCM colleges.