Study On He Culture’s Reflection On The Science Of Life Nurturing In Huangdi Neijing And Its Inspiration To Modern Life Nurturing Science

He (harmony), one of the essence and soul of the splendid Chinese culture with abundant connotations and profound meanings, was the basic spirit of our country’s traditional ideology for thousands of years, as well as the values and methodology our people advocated. It permeated all aspects in the society, for example, philosophy, politics, ethics, etc, and had far-reaching influences to many subjects including traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Huangdi Neijing (Huangdi’s Canon of Medicine), the earliest extant medical classic of TCM, reflected the unique thinking mode and values for life, health, illness, death and so on of TCM; the elaboration of life nurturing played an important role among the contents. This article intended to investigate the origin and essence of he culture though textual research on its Chinese character, abstracted the life nurturing ideas and methods to study he culture’s reflection on the science of life nurturing in Huangdi Neijing, made efforts to explore its value for Chinese life nurturing science, and accordingly put forward its inspiration to modern life nurturing science.This article researched on the glyph composition, writing, pronunciation, usage and meaning of the character he though semantical method, literature search, and other literature research methods, summarized the core concept, theoretical essence, unique charm of he culture, extracted the life nurturing ideas and methods in Huangdi Neijing, collected the sentences and illustrations on he and analyzed he culture’s reflection in the book, and finally study on the inspiration of traditional he culture to modern life nurturing science.He culture’s aim was harmony, the means were adaption, accommodation, adjustment, the principle was keeping the individual qualities, the core conception was the unity of human and nature, the theoretical essence was to achieve zhonghe (moderate, self-controlled, and appropriate), the unique charm was insisting on harmonious but different. It ran though the life nurturing ideas and methods in Huangdi Neijing-the purpose of Chinese life nurturing was to balance yin and yang;the basic method was to follow the shushu; the characteristic was to attach importance to individual differences. It could inspire and direct the modern life nurturing science. People should choose appropriate life nurturing activities which were conformed to the natural order under the guidance of he culture.