A Study Of Health-preservation Theory By Combined Practice Of Confucianism And Taoism In "Bao Pu Zi"

Life is precious. Health and longevity is the common aspiration of mankind since ancient times. Chinese Taoism has always attached importance to human life, and made unremitting exploration on health-preservation and Longevity, even survive forever, also summarized many effective way of health-preserving. Of course, as time limit and the limitations of Taoism, the health-preservation of Taoist must be the same in essence and dross, many of which views can not stand the test of science, or even absurd. Even today, with the constant development of the living standard of people and the spiritual life getting richer and more varied, people pay more attention to health-preservation and longevity. However, if we can make an intensive study of health-preservation of Taoist, take its essence, abandon its dross, and it will have a profound theoretical and practical significance on health-preserving for people of our era.In the Jin Dynasty, Ge Hong was a famous Taoist scholar in China, and he was the master of the thought of Taoism in Wei and Jin Dynasties. The history of Taoism in China, Ge Hong's efforts to cause the end of the original Taoist, the original Taoist formal divided into the upper immortal Taoism the nether folk Taoism. Surviving forever and becoming immortal is the fundamental doctrine of the upper immortal Taoism, and surviving forever and becoming immortals is also the ultimate goal of health-preserving of the upper immortal Taoism. For achieving that goal, Ge Hong established a complete set of theoretical basis and practice way of health-preserving. First of all, Ge Hong from the height of ontology to find the object of worship for the health-preserving, described as "xian" as the core ontological thinking. Secondly, from the epistemological level to provide methodological guidance for the health-preserving, including the health-preserving of the concept and spirit, and the health preserving of the guideline and basic principles of the health preserving. Again, Ge Hong from the immortal perspective view to provide feasibility verification for the health-preserving. Ge Hong is really concrete proof of the immortals and immortality can learn both. Around the goal of becoming immortal by the health-preserving, Ge Hong established a set of eat Azoth as the core, Eros and Qigong as the importance of adjuvant action, also used along with other health preserving methods. In addition, to relieve contradiction between Taoist and Confucianism Culture, and to meet the needs of the ruling class, Ge Hong positive merged Confucianism into Taoism, brought the ethics of Confucian school into the theoretical system of the immortal Taoism, advocated health preserving must cultivating merit, do good become the primary task of surviving forever and becoming immortal.All in all, around the goal of becoming immortal by the health-preserving, Ge Hong established a complete theoretical system of the Health-Preservation. This paper by way of straightening out and abstracting of the theoretical system of Health-Preservation, take the essence, discard the dregs, to try to provide reference for the scientific health-preserving for people of our era.