1) Taoist philosophy of health preservation

The research object of Taoism health preservation is human. In the color of its religious mysticism, it contains thousands of years of valuable experience of our people in exploring the human body and human nature. It takes man himself as the object of investigation and study, and tries to understand the essence of human life, the harmonious relationship between man and nature, and society. It takes prolonging life and developing wisdom as the main purpose of research. Whether the function and material of life, the metabolic process of life, the mystery of life existence, etc., have become an important topic in the study of Taoist health preservation. The idea of dual cultivation of life and life proposed by Taoist health practitioners is based on the view of life that is connected with God and unified in form and spirit. In fact, life and form and spirit are two concepts that can be connected. Sex refers to human life and body. Due to the time sequence, the appellation and connotation are different. In the Han and Tang Dynasties, most health preserving families called the combination of body and spirit, while after the Tang Dynasty, the Inner Alchemy family called the combination of life and soul. From the perspective of content, the theory of the combination of body and spirit of the Han and Tang health practitioners lacked integrity, and the method was relatively fragmented and monotonous. When it came to the Inner Alchemy Family in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the theory of dual cultivation of life and life was very complete, and the method was also quite systematic and rich, reaching a very deep and subtle level. Secondly, Taoism's health preservation theory stresses sexual and life skills, which is not completely divided into two ways. It is related to each other and affects each other, either from the cultivation of the mind or from the cultivation of the essence. Refining essence, refining qi, refining spirit, and returning to the void are all closely connected. The Taoist Qigong Health Preserving Theory takes the double cultivation of life as a major principle, and the sexual and life skills as two major programs. It also takes the five major methods of refining heart, refining nature, refining essence, refining gas, and refining spirit, and the four character formula of Qing, Xu, Jing, and Shen as four characters, thus forming a complete system of internal refining.

2) Exercise regimen

Sports regimen refers to a regimen that uses physical activity to maintain health, strengthen physique, prolong life and delay aging. The characteristics of the Chinese nation's sports and health preservation are: based on the theories of Yin and Yang, viscera, qi and blood, meridians, etc. of traditional Chinese medicine, the basic characteristics of sports are nourishing essence, practicing qi, and regulating spirit, and the health care activities that emphasize the coordination of mind, breath, and body movements are emphasized. The traditional exercise regimen, which has been constantly summarized and supplemented by previous generations of health practitioners, has gradually formed a health care method of exercising limbs, self massage to practice shape, breathing, exhaling, adjusting nose to practice qi, calming thoughts, and eliminating distractions to practice mind.

Sports health preservation is a health preservation method to maintain health, strengthen physique, prolong life and delay aging by means of physical activity.

At the beginning of human beings, they hunted for sacrifice and picked for gifts. Movement is the premise of human existence. Only with the development of society and the emergence of private ownership, did the phenomenon of "hard work governs people, and labor governs people" emerge. Sports regimen first catered to the needs of the upper class of society. For example, the guide map unearthed in the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, Hunan, is the earliest record found today. The development of medicine has provided theoretical basis, guiding principles, development direction and necessary restrictions for sports regimen, which makes sports regimen develop in a comprehensive and reasonable direction. It circulates qi and blood, nourishes spirit, strengthens muscles and bones, smoothes joints, strengthens skin and muscles, clears eyes and ears, fills the internal organs, so as to achieve vigorous energy, sufficient qi and blood, quick thinking, quick response, lasting endurance and aging.

Exercise is the form and the purpose of health preservation. The form is flexible and diversified, and can be self created, as long as the goal of fitness can be achieved.

3) Natural health preservation

At all times and in all countries, people have been studying and exploring the wisdom of health preservation. In fact, human beings are the products of nature. "Nourishing the life of nature by the way of nature" is the highest wisdom of health preservation! The great British philosopher Bacon said in his article "On Health Preservation": "Health preservation is a kind of wisdom, which is not covered by medical laws. On the basis of your own observation, it is the best health care medicine to find out what is good for you and what is bad for you... When you eat, sleep and exercise, you are calm and happy, and it is the best prescription for longevity." This is natural health preservation.

4) Food, medicine and wine for health preservation

People's daily life can not be separated from three meals a day. How to reasonably allocate diet to make it more conducive to human health and nourishing health is a problem of concern.

As the saying goes: Food is better than medicine. Diet regimen is an important traditional theory of Chinese medicine, which has accumulated extremely rich experience in long-term practice.

Drugs with anti aging and anti-aging effects are called longevity drugs. The use of this kind of medicine to delay aging and keep fit is called medicine health preservation. Medicine health care is a health care method summarized by ancient Chinese health care experts through long-term health care and disease prevention medical practice under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine theory. Shennong's Herbal Classic, the earliest existing pharmacy monograph in China born in the Han Dynasty, systematically summarized the drug theory and medication experience of curing diseases and health care before the Han Dynasty.

The use of traditional Chinese medicine for health care has a long history. For thousands of years, not only has a variety of health care drugs been proposed, but also many effective life prolonging prescriptions have been created. The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, but it records more than 100 kinds of medicines beneficial to health. The Classic of Mountains and Seas is not a monograph on medicine, but it contains 124 kinds of drugs, including 66 kinds of animal drugs, 51 kinds of plant drugs and 2 kinds of mineral drugs. There are many medicines in it that have the effect of tonifying anti-aging, such as "(wood xiang) wood solid, eating more forcefully; hornbeam wood solid, eating not forget, eating good walking; wolves (plus grass), eating not young". The words "Duoli", "Don't forget", "Good walking" and "Don't die" here mean that people can strengthen their brains, strengthen their bodies and prolong their lives. Shennong's Herbal Classic, the earliest existing pharmacy monograph in China born in the Han Dynasty, systematically summarized the drug theory and experience of treating diseases and using drugs in China before the Han Dynasty. The book consists of three volumes, containing 365 kinds of drugs, including the top, middle and bottom grades.

According to the Preface to the Herbal Classic: "Those who want to be light and healthy, but not old and prolong their life, should go through the sutra." It can be seen that those who are listed as top grade are those who can prolong their life. Among the 365 kinds of drugs, there are 165 kinds of drugs, including those for prolonging life, keeping young, resisting old age, benefiting qi, lightening body, and increasing life. Some drugs are also directly marked with "old people who are very helpful". The 165 kinds of drugs related to anti-aging and life extension recorded in the book were all included in later herbal works. Zhang Zhongjing, a famous physician in the Han Dynasty, wrote the Treatise on Febrile Diseases, which records the famous prescriptions for nourishing and anti-aging, such as Huangqi Jianzhong Decoction, Dioscorea Pill, Jinkui Shenqi Pill, and especially Shenqi Pill, which are still used at home and abroad today.

From the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, a new trend emerged in the study of life extending drugs, that is, many alchemists and physicians burned gold pills, studied and carried out the method of refining pills and taking stones in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Even the works of famous physicians Tao Hongjing and Sun Simiao also contained many contents of refining pills and taking stones. Modern pharmacological research has confirmed that some stone drugs, such as stalactite, white quartz, maifanite, amethyst, contain a large number of essential trace elements for human body, and have anti-aging effects. Therefore, there was a certain scientific basis for the alchemy of pills and stones at that time.

It is worth mentioning that Sun Simiao inherited and developed the idea of taking medicine to slow down aging. In the Qianjin Prescription, he proposed that "medicine can calm the mind and nourish the nature, and use resources to nourish the four qi". He also recorded many traditional Chinese medicines for prolonging life, such as Dihuang Prescription, Wuma Powder, Amber Powder, Cooked Ground Paste, Gou Gou Root Prescription, and the Pill of Confucius Holy Pillow. During the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, the theory of life extending drugs has made important development. For example, famous medical experts Chen Zhi and Zou Xuan clearly pointed out that the elderly drug health care should focus on the basis of training and replenishing the first and the second. The commonly used products in his books, such as rehmannia, wolfberry, dog ridge, walnut meat, polygonum multiflorum, dodder, ginseng, poria, yam, dried tangerine peel, and woodincense, are all drugs for tonifying the kidney, essence, spleen and qi. During this period, the study of prescription had a high degree of development. Many famous works on the study of medical prescription, such as the General Record of Shengji, the Taiping Shenghui Prescription, and the Women's Complete Prescription, collected many prescriptions for prolonging life, such as "Baqian Pill", "the method of taking deer antlers by immortals", "Erjing Pill", "Yishou Dixian Pill", and "wolfberry pill", which left a valuable legacy for the study of anti-aging prescriptions in later generations. In the Ming Dynasty, entering the heyday of the development of life extending drugs, the school of warming and tonifying represented by Zhao Xianke and Zhang Jingyue advocated the use of warming and tonifying drugs to strengthen the genuine fire; Wanmizhai advocates the principle of making prescriptions for elderly health care drugs by balancing yin and yang and combining five tastes. In particular, Li Shizhen, the great medical scientist, wrote the Compendium of Materia Medica, a great pharmaceutical work. Among the 1892 drugs recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica, 253 drugs have the effect of anti-aging and prolonging life, and 89 life prolonging prescriptions are selected. The ruling class of the Qing Dynasty was keen on taking the prescription of immortality, and there were many such prescriptions in the Forbidden City, such as Yishou Cream, Buyi Zisheng Pill, Chrysanthemum Longevity Cream, Bailing Pill, Songling Taiping Spring Wine, etc. These medical prescriptions provide valuable information for the research of anti-aging drugs.

Although the initial drinking behavior of human beings can not be called drinking regimen, it is closely related to health care, disease prevention and treatment. Scholars generally believe that the first wine is the natural fermentation of wild fruits collected by humans when they are left in proper conditions. As many wild fruits have medicinal value, the original wine can be called a natural "medicinal wine", which naturally has a certain role in protecting and promoting human health. Of course, at this time, although people get health benefits from drinking, they may not have a clear health purpose.

（1） Wine performance

There are many kinds of wine, and their properties, tastes and effects are much the same. Generally speaking, wine is warm and tastes pungent, warm can dispel cold and dredge, pungent can disperse and dredge, so wine can dredge the meridians, promote qi and blood, relieve arthralgia, warm yang and dispel cold, soothe the liver and relieve depression, and promote emotion and mind; Wine is the essence of grain brewing, so it can also benefit the intestines and stomach. In addition, wine can kill insects and exorcise evil spirits, and dispel evil and filth. It is recorded in the Natural History that Wang Su, Zhang Heng and Ma Jun walked in the morning through fog. One person drinks, one person eats and one person has an empty stomach; An empty stomach kills, a full stomach sickens, and a drinker is healthy. The author believes that this shows that "wine is more effective than food in warding off evil."

 The combination of alcohol and medicine is a great progress in drinking and health preservation. Wine has three main effects on medicine: 1. Wine can exercise medicine power. The ancients said that "wine is the best medicine". Wine can make the medicinal power reach to the surface and up to the top, so that the role of drugs for regulating qi and promoting blood circulation can be better played, and it can also make the nourishing drugs replenish without stagnation. 2. Wine helps to separate out the effective ingredients of drugs. Wine is a good organic solvent. Most water-soluble substances and some substances that cannot be dissolved in water and need to be dissolved in non-polar solvent can be dissolved in alcohol. Many components of traditional Chinese medicine are easy to dissolve in alcohol. Alcohol also has good permeability, which can easily enter the tissue cells of medicinal materials, play a role in dissolution, promote displacement and diffusion, and help to improve the leaching speed and effect. 3. Wine also has antiseptic effect. Generally, medicinal liquor can be kept for months or even years without deterioration, which gives great convenience to those who drink and keep healthy.

5) Mental health preservation

Mental health preservation refers to keeping a good state of mind to ensure the normal functioning of the body, so as to achieve the goal of disease prevention, fitness and longevity.

Mental health preservation is being accepted by more people, which shows that mental health preservation plays an important role. All capable people and lofty ideals from all walks of life have created a culture more suitable for modern people's health preservation through the practice of traditional health preservation culture. For example, the book "Mental Health Culture" is a book that teacher Liu Xinming, with his wise and agile talent, uses prose writing techniques to integrate the profound traditional culture of yin and yang theory, five elements theory, Chinese medicine health preservation theory, and moral concepts, The perfect combination of natural health culture, natural prevention, etc. and psychology has expounded the new theory of confidence and faith and the potential health concept. Faced with the crossflow of material desires, people's life, work and study pressure has become greater and greater. Whether they are old or young, they are forced to get involved in the high-speed rotating "spinner" for no reason. They cannot relax or stop, or they will be eliminated. In such an environment, people pay for their time, energy, physical strength, brain power, and hard work. They dare not miss anything. In the past, they will distort their minds and have various psychological problems: children will escape from reality by means of Internet addiction, rebellion, running away from home, etc., and adults will commit suicide, cleanliness, and other strange phenomena. The Inner Canon says: "It is indifferent and nihilistic, the true qi follows it, the spirit is conservative, and the illness is safe." Therefore, mental health is very important for our life. Readers can learn the methods of spiritual health preservation, faith training, information recovery, etc. in reading, and let you thoroughly wash and release your mind in an all-round way, so that you can be confused, relaxed, and happy.

6) Health preservation one-to-one 

The so-called "life" means life, survival and growth; The so-called maintenance means maintenance, recuperation and tonic. In a word, health preservation means maintaining life. Guided by the theory of traditional Chinese medicine and following the changing law of the biochemical collection of yin, yang and five elements, we can recuperate the human body scientifically to maintain the health and vitality of life. TCM health preservation is a kind of medical activity that can prolong life through various methods of nourishing life, strengthening physique and preventing diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) health preservation focuses on the integrity and systematicness, with the aim of preventing diseases in advance and treating them before they become ill. The famous representative work of TCM theory is Huangdi Neijing. Traditional Chinese medicine health care comes from ancient essence medicine, and the level of modern Chinese medicine has declined, while ancient Chinese medicine is worth further development and research.

2、 Concept of health preservation

The relationship between health preservation and life determines the multifaceted view of health preservation. So, what is health preservation? Why should I keep in good health? How to maintain health? Let's enjoy the long history and rich connotation of health culture, as well as the profound cultural origin of unlimited health concept from the wonderful speeches of experts at the Health Culture Summit Forum. 

TCM health preservation mainly includes prevention view, holistic view, balance view and dialectical view. 1. Prevention before disease and maintenance before aging 2. Harmony and harmony

3、 Health preservation rules

Health preservation is to "prevent disease", which is achieved through various methods such as nourishing spirit, adjusting diet, exercising body shape, being cautious about sex, and adapting to cold and temperature. It is a comprehensive activity to strengthen the body and prolong life.

First, the concept of "harmony between nature and man". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the world is a big universe, and the human body is a small universe. The heaven and the human are interlinked. People are always affected by the world, just as fish are in the water, and water is the whole of fish. Changes in water will certainly affect fish. Similarly, all changes in the world will affect people. Therefore, TCM health care emphasizes the integration of heaven and man, and the method of health care should be adjusted appropriately as the climate changes at four seasons. 

Second, the health concept of balance between yin and yang. The person with balance of yin and yang is the most healthy person. The goal of health preservation is to achieve the balance of yin and yang in body and mind. What is Yin? Yin is the material basis of the body. What is Yang? Yang is energy. Yin and Yang are relative. All upward, outward, active, and hot belong to Yang; All downward, inward and cold belong to Yin. The reason why the body gets sick is that yin and yang lose their balance, causing excessive yang or excessive yin, and yin or yang deficiency. As long as you try to reduce the excessive side and increase the too few side, so that yin and yang can regain their original balance again, the disease will naturally disappear. Therefore, TCM health care highly emphasizes the balance of yin and yang, which can help people live a healthy life.

Third, the holistic view of physical and mental integration. TCM health care focuses on both physical and mental aspects. It not only pays attention to physical exercise and maintenance, but also pays attention to spiritual cultivation and recuperation. The body will affect the mind, and the mind will also affect the body. Both are indispensable.

4、 Women's health

1) Reasonably arrange three meals. Eat only high fiber cereal and low-fat fresh milk for breakfast. Especially if you mix natural plant herbal qu fiber with it before meals every day, it will not only help to eliminate excessive fat intake, but also reduce fat, and will not hinder the healthy intake of nutrition. It is also a natural thin waist food, which can thin the waist in a short time. Meat and seafood are reserved for Chinese food, and you can eat light food for dinner, with vegetables accounting for the majority.

2) Stand for half an hour after dinner. In fact, the biggest reason for a woman's waist fat is negligence. Because she is busy with work and study, she has no time to reasonably allocate her life and arrange her own food and living. Standing for at least half an hour after meals can avoid the trouble of fat accumulation on the belly, and it also saves making up afterwards.

3) Fasting 5 hours before going to bed. One of the biggest taboos to lose weight is to eat before going to bed. When sleeping, the body does not need to exercise. All the food it eats will be absorbed by the body and become fat. If you can't stand being hungry, you can only eat a small amount of boiled vegetables or fruits.

4) Don't get up in a hurry. When you wake up in the morning, lie on your back and stretch. Then, land on all fours and arch the back, allowing the spine to "wake up", which can avoid low back pain, maintain a good posture, and start every day in a happy mood.

5) Clean the kitchen. Don't immediately sit down or lie down to rest after eating. Clean the table, wash the dishes, and then find some other work. Anyway, force yourself to exercise for 15 minutes after eating. This is another simple and effective way to keep your weight stable.

5、 Male health preservation 

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the root of men lies in the liver and kidney, in which the kidney is water, the liver is wood, and water can produce wood. Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine believes that the most fundamental of men is the kidney. Traditional Chinese medicine advocates that nourishing the kidney should focus on nourishing the vital energy.

Let's take a look at the five methods of male nourishing in traditional Chinese medicine: 

 ⑴ Lack of desire

In traditional Chinese medicine, the kidney moves when emotion moves, and the kidney moves when essence moves. To ensure the sufficiency of kidney qi, we should control the fine movement, so that the heart will not move. Therefore, abstinence is the first great way for men to nourish their kidneys. 

⑵ Labor saving

One must not overwork. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that essence is formed in blood, and essence is the realization of blood. So protect the blood. 

(3) Calm down anger

Anger hurts the liver. The liver is the master of blood. If people get angry, it will hurt the liver and consume essence. Therefore, we should control our temper, curb anger, and learn to treat people and things calmly.

 (4) Quit drinking 

Wine can move blood. Alcohol has the nature of growth. Drinking less can stimulate the growth of the body, but drinking too much will lead to the disorder of qi and blood, so drinking should be controlled.

(5) Caution of taste

Caution in taste is not to overeat, but to nourish with grains. There is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine: grains are the most nourishing.   

6、 Health preservation for the elderly

(1) Don't be greedy for refined people

The elderly pay attention to eating white rice noodles for a long time. If they consume less cellulose, they will weaken the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract and suffer from constipation easily. 

(2) Not greedy for meat

Too much meat fat in the diet of the elderly will cause nutritional imbalance and metabolic disorder, and they are prone to suffer from hypercholesterolemia and hyperlipidemia, which is not conducive to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. 

(3) Don't be greedy

The gastrointestinal digestion and absorption function of the elderly is weakened. If they eat hard or poorly cooked food, they are prone to indigestion or stomach disease over time.

(4)Don't be too late 

Eating three meals early rather than late is good for food digestion and rest after meals to avoid food accumulation or hypoglycemia.

(5)Not greedy for heat

The diet of the elderly should be warm rather than hot, because hot food is easy to damage the mouth, esophagus and stomach. If the elderly take hot food for a long time, they are also prone to stomach cancer and esophageal cancer.

(6)Don't be greedy