The Literature Study On Exercise For Health Preservation Of TCM Of Ming And Qing Dynasties

Rapid development of social economization and informatization brings people high standards material life, however, many health problems are spring up.At the same time, under high pressure, the proportion of young people suffering from chronic diseases or tumors is also rising continuously. As one of the effective methods of prevention and treatment of the diseases, exercise for health preservation of TCM are getting more attention from society nowadays. In order to play its own advantages continuously in modern society and contribute to the health undertaking of human society, the methodology characteristics and contemporary values need to be explored, and furthermore, to help the theory development and innovation.This research focused on the main related literature of exercise for health preservation of TCM in Ming and Qing dynasties. Through systematacially organization and analyzation, the methodology characteristics has been summarized, and the reference and guiding significance of the exercise of health preservation of TCM has been discussed.The ancient and modern physicians’understanding of the exercise for health preservation of TCM has been firstly introduced, and the research progress of clinical application, experiment and theoretical basis researches has been studied. The results showed that the literatures of exercise for health preservation of TCM in Ming and Qing dynasties is more visualized and enriched than before. The literatures, including pictures and texts are very vivid and easy to understand; however, with large amount literatures repeated, contents leading to the lack of innovation, different from medical books, the literatures emphasized on health preservation with high percentage of treatise of Daoyin. The methodology characteristics of literature of exercise for health preservation of TCM of Ming and Qing dynasty has following contents:the movements of limbs, expiration and inspiration, and self-massage are the main contents of the exercise for health preservation of TCM; this period’s TCM health preservation exercise methods absorbed quintessence before Ming dynasty, and combined with TCM theory, it improved the methods to be more simple, economical and practical; based on the holism conception and other TCM theories, much attention should be paid on "tiny activity" was concluded.The literature of the exercise for health preservation of TCM connects the past and future in the whole literature history. Under rapid paced society, people are getting chronic diseases increasingly. Using exercise for health preservation of TCM can harmonize body and mind, promote self-cultivation, preseve health condition, which contents inestimable significance.