Research On The Thought Of Confucianism, Buddhism And Taoism In Maintaining The Health By Virtue Cultivation

Objective:With the rising of people’s attention to health and the gradual exploring the traditional culture and the return to it,the inheritance and development of the thought of traditional health care has become a popular topic which attracts people’s attention in recent years.Health is that people use a variety of ways to maintain the health basing on the law of development of life,so as to make the body,mind to be in harmony with the nature,and to make themselves healthier and prolong life.A person can be regarded as a healthy one,only when he or she is in physical and mental health condition,as well as having healthy morality.The mental diseases caused by spiritual factors in modern society have become a major problem which is quite common in human society.The change of modern disease spectrum shows the universality and severity of mental factors that induce diseases.Medical studies have found that 60% to 90% of the diseases is related to mental and psychological factors.A survey report published by the United Nations International Labour Organization shows that mental illness will become one of the most serious health problems in twenty-first Century,which further indicates that mental illness has become a major hazard to human health.Depression is the second most frequently diagnosed mental illness in China.According to some statistics,the number of deaths caused by depression is even more than that caused by traffic accidents.Cardio-cerebrovascular diseases and malignant tumors have become the main killers of human health,and the causes of these diseases have a very close relationship with mental and psychological factors.Chinese traditional culture which has a long history,is broad and profound,and Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism are the most representative of the three.Throughout the Chinese traditional health culture,Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism are deeply permeated in Chinese traditional medicine theory of health care.The Chinese nation has always attached great importance to spiritual health,and almost all ideologist,medical practitioners and health practitioners in the history advocated maintaining good health by cultivating people’s morality,,and believed that people’s moral cultivation decided their own health and life.In the modern time,the idea that the spirit of virtue helping people maintain good health is still widely accepted.At present,the study of thoughts of morality cultivation helping people to maintain health is very limited.This study makes a preliminary study through the view of thoughts of health care in Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism,with the expectation of basing the foundation of previous research,to explore some thoughts of health care which meets the need of people in modern society,to change people’s concept of only focusing on nutrition and doing exercises,but ignoring the influence of morality to health,so as to help people better master the essence of principles of maintaining the health through morality cultivation.At the same time,combining with the theory of health care of the supervisor,preliminary research is made in virtue effecting on the field of medical treatment.What is more,this research can also further improve the theory system of health care in Chinese medicine.Method:Collecting the relevant research literature on the theory of Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism;referring to previous relevant research results,literature methodology,comprehensive analysis method,comparative methodology,supplemented by modern network technology.This paper analyzes and summarizes this topic,and form the research of this theory.Result:Except of relying on balanced nutrition,proper exercise,reasonable arrangement of work and rest,smoking cessation and alcohol restriction,it is also very important to strengthen moral cultivation.China’s traditional culture which has long history is broad and profound.Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism are the most representative,and is one of the treasures of Chinese culture,as well as the spirit and origin of Chinese culture.It has a profound impact on the traditional Chinese medicine,and has a direct relationship withhealth care theory of Chinese medicine.This paper makes a preliminary collation,induction and analysis of Confucian,Buddhist and Taoist literature on moral health,to explore the ideological connotation of maintaining health by virtue cultivation.This paper uses the thought of maintaining health by improving ones’ virtue as a main line to explore its historic origin and the significant of this paper.It proposes "read the books of sages,established gentleman products;observe moral discipline,perform the social obligation,be closed to goodness,abandon badness,repent what has been done wrongly,and be thankful,indifferent to fame and wealth,perfect moral practice,cultivate wisdom,preserve the ecological environment,and cherish all the things on earth,and so on.This suits modern people’s way to maintain health through moral cultivation.Through learning the wisdom and essence of thoughts of Confucian,Buddhist and Taoist,it helps people to establish the right concept of health care,establish ideal personality,enhance the harmony development of mental and physical health.Conclusion:Good virtue helps people to bring positive and healthy mood,achieve harmonious development of body and mind,and achieve physical and mental health.The concept of Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism,that maintain health by good virtue,has function of promoting health.When the virtues are improved,the health condition will also improve.