Exploration And Analysis On Taiwan's Natural Health Cultivation

As the Chinese foundational book on health cultivation, Huangdi Neijing proposed the idea of correspondence between man and universe thousands of years ago. The book pointed out that man is the product of nature and its rehabilitation needs to be in correspondence with natural environment. Following the law of natural change is the important premise and rule of health cultivation. But in recent years, as a result of the eagerness for quick success and instant benefits, environment of Taiwan was damaged seriously and food safety incidents frequently happened. Simultaneously, the fast paced and high pressed living state and the pursuit for physical and mental health makes health cultivation, especially natural health cultivation, develop unprecedentedly.This paper was written mainly based on the idea of conforming to nature, correspondence between man and universe, reposing body outside and inside, which was proposed in Neijing. Combining with the health cultivation idea of returning to one's original nature, it pointed out that health cultivation should follow natural rules and man should maintain its health by natural substance in order to enjoy the old age. Furthermore, the author had a discussion and analysis of the types and effects of the natural health cultivation in Taiwan. With main contents and conclusions as follows:1. related discussions on health and natural health cultivationDiscussed the concept and origin of health cultivation, interpreted the notion and content of natural health cultivation and illustrated their development and opinions; presented its development and opinions in Chinese and western society; elaborated the dialectical unity between health cultivation and environment; concluded that natural health cultivation emphasized harmony of man and nature, the usage of nature and natural law. This paper was a further refine and development of traditional health cultivation.2. analysis of the research background and summary of Taiwan's health cultivationSummarized the real demands for natural health cultivation in Taiwan and in the whole world; pointed out the limitation and deficiency of the research and analysis which only based on natural resources. Taiwan health cultivation as the research objective, combining its abundant natural health resources, the author tried to have an exploration of natural health methods. To make the methods systematic and perfect was the purpose of this research.3. analysis of Taiwan's natural health cultivation and its methodThrough deep analysis of the development basis, advantage, rising background and development situation, the paper explored and sorted out historical data of Taiwan. Taiwan's natural health methods are summarized as 3 types: diet health care, energy and leisure. Its method and effect was discussed in detail: diet health care mainly introduced diet and health preserving, healthy food and healthy tea; energy regimen took jade-nurturing and aromatic-nurturing for example; leisure regimen gave a key analysis of forest bath nursing, hot spring bath nurturance and music nurturance. Adjusting a body's balance of yin and Yang by the strength of nature can transfer emotion, improve physique, increase body's resistance, recover the function of natural defense against evil and then achieve the ultimate purpose of improving the quality of life, eliminating disease and prolonging life.4. significance of natural health cultivationTheoretically and practically, this paper expounded the principle and effect of numerous methods of natural health cultivation. And, the paper explained the economic feasibility of natural health cultivation from the perspective of environment protection and reasonable usage of natural resources. Furthermore, the paper presented some significant suggestions and solutions on the development of Taiwan's natural health cultivation.