Promote the protection of intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine

Source: Guangming Daily

The intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine (hereinafter referred to as "intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine") is an important carrier of excellent traditional Chinese culture and an important part of the intangible cultural heritage of mainland China.

It is the responsibility and mission entrusted to us in the new era to comprehensively promote the protection and development of the intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine, meet the health needs of the people, make the intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine rejuvenate in the new era, integrate into modern life, integrate into and serve social development and national strategies, and make greater contributions to the construction of a healthy China.

The protection of the intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine must adhere to the development direction of "integrity and innovation". Specifically, it is divided into five aspects: first, maintaining the advantages and characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine and adhering to the main development of traditional Chinese medicine are the core of "integrity and innovation". Second, we should adhere to the law of the development of traditional Chinese medicine, especially the diagnosis and treatment mode with human life, health and disease prevention as the core, the overall thinking of "unity of nature and man", "unity of form and spirit" and "harmony of viscera", the dynamic life concept of "birth, growth, strength, old age, and already", the dynamic balance concept of syndrome differentiation and treatment of "knowing what is wrong and treating it with evidence", as well as a variety of treatment methods. It is the key to "uphold integrity and innovation" to pay attention to exploring the essence of ancient Chinese medicine literature, deepening clinical research on health care, disease prevention and treatment based on people, and continuously enriching the theory and practice of Chinese medicine. Third, give full play to the role of traditional Chinese medicine in health care, disease prevention and treatment, pay attention to the grasp of human "image" and "Tao" and the comprehensive application of "syndrome" and "technique", and the diagnosis and treatment mode of external and internal, four diagnoses and references, and syndrome differentiation and treatment, so as to effectively realize the purpose of the people not getting sick, getting sick less, getting sick late, and not getting seriously ill, which is an inexhaustible driving force for "keeping integrity and innovation". Fourth, it is an effective way to "uphold integrity and innovation" by adhering to the complementary advantages and collaborative innovation of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, focusing on the diagnosis and treatment mode of combining disease differentiation and syndrome differentiation, precision medicine and holistic thinking, and using modern science and technology to explore the treasure trove of traditional Chinese medicine. Fifth, we are committed to creating a social atmosphere of cherishing, loving, enjoying and developing traditional Chinese medicine, effectively serving people's health, improving the quality of life, prolonging the life cycle, and taking care of the elderly.

First of all, we should make good use of the abundant intangible cultural heritage resources of traditional Chinese medicine, improve the protection ecosystem of traditional Chinese cultural heritage, stimulate the vitality and vitality of traditional Chinese cultural heritage, and continuously expand the field of intangible cultural heritage services of traditional Chinese medicine. The intangible cultural heritage resources of traditional Chinese medicine include traditional Chinese medicine life and disease cognition methods, traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis methods, acupuncture and moxibustion, traditional Chinese medicine processing techniques, traditional Chinese medicine preparation methods, traditional Chinese medicine osteopathy, traditional Chinese medicine health preservation, as well as Tibetan, Mongolian, Uygur, Dai, Hui, Zhuang, She, Yao, Miao, Dong, Yi, Buyi, Kazakh and other ethnic minority medicine representative projects, which can adapt to and meet the health services of the whole life cycle of the people. Promoting the integration of traditional Chinese medicine intangible cultural heritage with health preservation, elderly care, health care and life, and tourism can allow people to cultivate themselves, prevent and treat diseases, prolong life, and effectively improve the quantity and quality of healthy people.

It shows the profound connotation of the intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine through health care, culture and tourism, improves the visibility, application rate and influence of intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine, enhances the vitality of the practice of intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine, and realizes the effective inheritance, dissemination and transformation of intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine, providing a new path for the protection and development of intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine.

Secondly, it is necessary to pay attention to the inheritance of academic ideas and experience of the representative inheritors of the intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine, strengthen the training of intangible cultural heritage inheritors of traditional Chinese medicine, and promote the establishment of a team of intangible cultural heritage inheritors of traditional Chinese medicine with a complete system and reasonable echelon, so as to ensure the transmission of intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine from generation to generation and sustainable development. Clinical experience and technical expertise, build an effective inheritance and promotion mechanism and model, cultivate a group of high-level TCM intangible cultural heritage inheritors with leading academics, exquisite medical (technical) skills and noble moral character, and build a high-level TCM intangible cultural heritage inheritor team with great social influence and international competitiveness.

Thirdly, we should build a characteristic brand of intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine to meet the diverse health needs of the people. With the inclusion of "Chinese Medicine Acupuncture" and "Tibetan Medicine Bathing Method" on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" and "Compendium of Materia Medica" included in the "Memory of the World Register", the unique advantages of the intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine have been widely recognized and valued by the world. After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, traditional Chinese medicine was deeply involved in the whole process of epidemic prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, and adhered to the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine and the combination of Chinese and Western medicine, which played an irreplaceable role in the decisive victory of epidemic prevention and control in the mainland.

In addition, it is also possible to develop traditional Chinese medicine health care and tourism brands with traditional Chinese medicine intangible cultural heritage characteristics, traditional Chinese medicine cultural experience and health tourism, traditional Chinese medicine exhibitions and other tourism brands, create a number of traditional Chinese medicine intangible cultural heritage health tourism demonstration areas, boutique routes, characteristic towns (blocks), bring together a number of traditional Chinese medicine intangible cultural heritage health products, cosmetics, health care equipment and other tourism commodities, create a number of cultural and creative products with traditional Chinese medicine cultural connotation, traditional Chinese medicine intangible cultural heritage characteristics, and Chinese style, and provide high-end medical treatment, traditional Chinese medicine health care, rehabilitation and recuperation. Commodity consumption, elderly care services, traditional Chinese medicine botanical garden, pharmaceutical process visits and other special tourism projects to achieve traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, health preservation, medicinal diet, planting, picking, sightseeing, development, vacation and other extensive integration. In short, it is necessary to deeply explore the contents of each sector of the TCM intangible cultural heritage industry chain, and build a new pattern of TCM intangible cultural heritage tourism with multiple channels, wide fields, multiple forms, high levels, distinctive characteristics and outstanding advantages.

Finally, to give full play to the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine intangible cultural heritage and serve human health, we must have a world vision and international thinking. It is necessary to meet the needs of health, practice "internal strength", make up for weaknesses, focus on cultivating a talent team with noble medical ethics, strong clinical ability, high scientific research level and foreign exchange ability, and build a number of high-level overseas Chinese medicine service bases, so that people around the world can enjoy the achievements and high-quality services of traditional Chinese medicine, improve the quality and level of human health, and build a "people-oriented, life-oriented" human health community with a sense of historical responsibility and mission.

The intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine is an important carrier of the soft power of mainland culture, and the excellent traditional culture it carries has important reference significance for the peace and development of the world today. Promoting the intangible cultural heritage of Chinese medicine to serve human health is conducive to overseas people to deeply experience the wisdom and practical charm of Chinese medicine, and is also an important way for Chinese culture to go global.

(Author: Cao Hongxin, Vice President of the China Association for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Chairman of the Chinese Medicine Committee)