{"id":1572,"date":"2011-02-07T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T15:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2024-10-06T08:39:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T06:39:04","slug":"daoism-and-confucianism-in-tcm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/archives\/1572","title":{"rendered":"Daoism and Confucianism in TCM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Besides some aspects such as demon or ancestral medicine, the roots of Chinese medicine practiced today developed approximately around 500 to 200 after the turn of the eras. After Zhou Dynasty the social and political structure of China collapsed. During the Warring States Period statesmen and philosophers were concerned with the question how to acquire happiness and well-being for both state and individual. Kongzi [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/confucius\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Chinese philosopher and politician, ca. 551 BC&ndash;479 BC. His philosophy, also known as Confucianism, emphasizes personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice, kindness, and sincerity. Read more: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confucius\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Confucius<\/a>] and Lao Zi, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>founders of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/daoism\" target=\"_self\" title='The world view that underlies the I&nbsp;Ching is rooted in Daoism (Chinese: \"Teaching the Way\", Taoism). The basic idea is the primordial unity from which all creation emanates: it gives birth to duality (Yin and Yang, light and shadow) and by their changes, movements and interplay creates our environment (the external world). The ethical teachings&hellip;' class=\"encyclopedia\">Daoism<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/confucianism\" target=\"_self\" title=\"The philosophy of Confucius. Emphasizes personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice, kindness, and sincerity. Confucianism, along with Buddhism and Daoism, has shaped Chinese culture and society for many centuries and influences everyday life in China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Vietnam and Taiwan. Read more: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confucianism\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Confucianism<\/a>, outlined two different paths on that quest, that both shaped Chinese thought as a whole as well as Chinese medicine up to the present moment.<br>Confucianism saw man&rsquo;s salvation in the safeness of social structure. Hereinafter the individual is part of and tightly integrated into a system, finding both esteem and personal happiness in the fulfillment of his social role. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/dao\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Dao is traditionally referred to as &quot;the path&quot;. Within Daoist philosophy it describes the eternal and active principle of creation which encompasses both original unity and duality. Dao thus constitute the basic principle of the world's creation, it is a principle of immanence (= all-pervading) as well as transcendence (= undifferentiated emptiness, mother of the&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Dao<\/a>ism, however, regarded the individual as part of a larger system, the course of the world, heaven and earth. In such a way detached from Confucianism&rsquo;s earthly obligations, manners, customs and rituals, the individual finds happiness in merging with cosmos, in melting into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/shen-2\" target=\"_self\" title=\"In the context of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sh&eacute;n refers to the human mind or human psyche; Shen refers to the fundamental force or instance within a person that is responsible for life, and in order to promote life to its full potential, the mind must grow and be cultivated. Read more: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shen Citations: Shen\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Shen<\/a>, cosmic mind. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though these views regarding man are quite opposite, they both have their place in Chinese history as well as in Chinese medicine[. &hellip;] The Daoist ideas in some sections of Suwen [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/huangdi-neijing\" target=\"_self\" title='The Hu&aacute;ngd&igrave; N&egrave;ij&#299;ng (also: Hu&aacute;ng D&igrave; N&egrave;i J&#299;ng or N&egrave;ij&#299;ng) is one of the oldest standard works of Chinese medicine and was written around 2698-2598 BC. It translates as \"Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor\" or \"Esoteric Scripture of the Yellow Emperor\" and has been&nbsp; the fundamental doctrinal source for Chinese medicine for more than&hellip;' class=\"encyclopedia\">Huangdi Neijing<\/a>, part 1] (such as the concept of longevity, chapter 1) are supplemented by very Confucian ideas of man as a microcosm of the state with ministers and officials (such as chapter 8). <cite>Lorenzen 2000, 219<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading quellenverzeichnis\">Bibliography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"quellenverzeichnis\">&mdash; Lorenzen, Udo. 2000. <em>Die Wandlungsphasen der Traditionellen Chinesischen Medizin: Wasser<\/em>. 5 Wasser. M&uuml;nchen: M&uuml;ller &amp; Steinicke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides some aspects such as demon or ancestral medicine, the roots of Chinese medicine practiced today developed approximately around 500 to 200 after the turn of the eras. After Zhou Dynasty the social and political structure of China collapsed. During the Warring States Period statesmen and philosophers were concerned with the question how to acquire&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/archives\/1572\">Weiterlesen:<span> Daoism and Confucianism in TCM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[151,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","category-material-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11132,"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/11132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}