Jin And Tang And Song Dynasties Taoist Diet Regimen Thought

The thought of Taoist dietetic life-nourishing develops gradually along with the maturation of the thought of early Taoist medicine-taking and the Chinese medical pharmacology. In the early time of Daoism's growing, the thought of Taoist dietetic life-nourishing had been included by Taoist medicine taking and the traditional Chinese dietary therapy. Although the boundary among them is not perspicuity, it establishes the theoretical foundation of the peering-off and differentiation of them. Between Wei Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, Taoist doctor such as Ge Hong and Tao Hongjing had expatiated on Taoist dietetic life-nourishing. At Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao wrote a special chapter named "the nutritional therapy". Under the impetus of the traditional Chinese medicine, the thought of Taoist dietetic life-nourishing tended towards to be mature at Tang Dynasty, and the special writings appeared at Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty .This article will proceed with this clue, and launch the elaboration with the following parts.Firstly,I will hackle the sprout of the thought of Taoist dietetic life-nourishing and the representative thoughts and books. As a introduction of discussing it, I will make some discussion on the thought of Taoist and early Taoist life-nourishing. And it will be as a matting of the later discussion about the thought of Taoist life-nourishing.Secondly, I will expatiate on several basic theories. It includes "The theory of the negative, the positive and the five basic elements" (阴阳五行学说), "the theory of the five internal organs " (五脏学说), "the theory of the four natures and five senses " (四 气五味学说) and "the theory of how to keep healthy in different seasons " (四季摄养 论) . These several basic theories are derived from the theories of Chinese medical nutritional therapy and medication. Therefore I also analyze that even if they were used by Taoist scholars, but still had the very complicated relations with the traditional Chinese medicine.Thirdly, I will analyze the relationship between Taoist life-nourishing and the traditional Chinese dietary therapy .The two had not been separated from each other...