Don't confuse the Chinese medicine and art

YangGuang Tianjin university of Chinese medicine first affiliated hospital

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        Recently, carrying forward the culture of TCM said, there's talk about the relationship between the traditional Chinese medicine and art. The author thinks that Chinese medicine is not art. Though it didn't stop in the specific context said: traditional Chinese medicine is the art!

        For example, when modern cataract technology is also at "extracapsular" stage, a surgery to four fifty minutes, and GuoYi master by professor of tang dynasty in less than 10 minutes to complete the needle that clean out of dial analgesia; When we look at the ShiXueMin light spirit of elegant, skilled beautiful acupuncture technique; When people read the ancient and modern YiAn as one of the syndrome differentiation and the use of drug, effect of subtle magic exclamation...... The author will involuntarily praise "Chinese medicine's art!" But the admiration is one thing, strict scientific classification is another thing.

        Chinese medicine and art has "big difference"

        First of all, Chinese medicine and art fundamental difference lies in that the successfully belong to different academic categories. Their research object, purpose, method and result, evaluation standard etc is completely different. The subject classification of traditional Chinese medicine is obviously "natural science-human science-medical-of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)", the research object is human body, is the person's health and disease of knowledge. Even if is mental problem, but also in the "human" real WuZhiTi problems. So no matter Chinese medicine, western medicine belong natural science.

        And the classification of art is a social science, is the ideology, and is a cultural phenomenon, of aesthetic category. The root of the art is to create new beauty, take this to give vent to their inner desire and emotional, belong to the enrichment of life and exaggerated. Mainstream art that the human nature beauty, purify the mind. The most serious artistic creation to meet subjective and emotional needs, and appreciate the art is both daily life forms of entertainment, is to enhance the quality of spirit means.

        Visible, traditional Chinese medicine and art is really has a "big difference".

        First of all, Chinese medicine and the purpose of art is different, the purpose of the medical is one of the physical and mental health, the purpose of art is the ascension of the spirit world.

        Second, from different attitude, doctors can't initiative to "create" a doctor of object, you again to sick high medical talents to give medical, even if the "cure is not ill" is also done to have a healthy requirements of the human body. And encourage active art creation, you need to have a "artistic", have a strong desire to create a good works.

        Again, the traditional Chinese medicine "work object" can only be limited in the human body, and art objects follow one's inclinations, is almost unlimited, with really objects could creation, sound, light, shadow, the movement, the expression can also be creative, and even put a stone can be art. In painting, for example, you can draw on the paper, also can draw in stone, wood, leather, metal, walls, sky, and even the naked.

        In addition, as part of the traditional Chinese medicine medicine, the level of (check, treatment technology and drug) is objective, and constantly improve the progress. The judgment standard is very simple: can get better, level is high; Can be short time, little money cure level is higher. The past is no cure for the disease can now put to, now is no cure for the disease after research research, the future will be cured, age is the whole medical level of progress. And from the overall level of art for progress, and it is hard to evaluation. Although art theory, form, technique, material, technology... Continuous innovation, and pattern, but who can't say artistic level with the era of progress and progress.

        For example: which a dynasty have masters and handed down from ancient times to make, but later which one can say the calligraphy more than the "lanting set sequence", which a painting than the Mona Lisa, which a sculpture more than the thinker?

        The cause of the art of medical and confusion

        Medical and art is so different, why people always say Chinese medicine is art? The author thought that the reasons are as follows:

        One is the art is everywhere. This is not to say that strict art creation, but art effect is everywhere. Art pursue new and beauty, can show the innovation, the show America as the artistic effect. All categories of things using skillful craft masterly, namely the performance for the beauty, namely the artistic effect, PaoDingXieNiu that is the best example. Chinese medicine theory and technology using skillful therapeutic not only, still can give a person with beautiful enjoyment, so have the effect of art.

        2 it is art required individuation, refused to machine-made, "Venus" is the fine arts, but as to copy out, although image is not changed but can only be "beautiful decoration". Chinese medicine cure means rich and colorful, exquisite personalized, ten ten method, one hundred people one hundred party, give a person with protean, and difficult to master feeling, they generate art feeling.

        Three traditional Chinese medicine with art is the love for the drive up traditional Chinese medicine. Really shouldn't be different discipline class no pinnacle of points, art is not superior science and technology, how much more will the science, the health is itself has the aesthetic value. Photography, modern stage, film and TV is "based on science of art". Hawking is contemporary top physicist, his book "the fruit of shell universe", "a brief history of time, easy language humorous and wisecracking, illustrations, weird wonderful and beautiful round of beautiful huan, the physics of esoteric frontier theory to express clear, have very strong artistic appeal, but he is still the scientists and not an artist.

        Western medicine plastic surgeon, through the surgery can put the trauma recovery for the disfigured (close) to normal person, heart doctor can the ably coronary stent placement and immediate relief myocardial infarction, an eye doctor can more than ten minutes in a few millimeters through small incision take out the opacity of the lens to put into artificial crystal to heavy cataract patients, these may be enough to make us exclamation "it's art." But they still is a doctor and not an artist.

        That is some discipline show the beauty of art and artistic but cannot calculate art, some art based on science or art than a science. So, I think, to the traditional Chinese medicine for art as "wrong". It would create chaos on the theory and practice. The development of traditional Chinese medicine culture is in promoting the clinical and not how many art creation; The ultimate goal of traditional Chinese medicine research is to improve people's health level and not for creating the spiritual wealth.