Abstract
The theoretical system of the medical classic Yellow Emperor reflects the cultural levels of the Warring States Period, and social history, and science and technology development long after the Qin and Han dynasty, and it also reflects the Chinese traditional mode of thinking. From the perspective of cognitive linguistics, study on the book Yellow Emperor’s emotional metaphor paradigm, cognitive mechanisms and meaning construction, it is found that emotional metaphor is a more general theory which explains the important thinking of physiology, pathology, therapy and health, etc., but it is also found that as long as it is related to disease and health, there will appear magical implication of emotional metaphors.
Highlights
The landmark book of Chinese medicine theory system, the Yellow Emperor, absorbed important achievements, before the Qin and Han dynasty, about astronomy, calendar, biology, geography, anthropology, psychology and philosophy and other disciplines, from many aspects such as gas, the relationship between man and heaven, God-shaped relationship
In various mindsets reflected in the Yellow Emperor, the emotional metaphor is more common way of thinking, which elaborates physiology, pathology, and treatment, as well as health theories and so on
From Cognitive Perspective, studies on the Yellow Emperor began in the last few years: for example, Jia (2008) explores the conceptual metaphor on TCM etiology and pathogenesis under the cognitive science background; Yin & Pang (2011) discuss metaphor thinking and creativity in therapy of traditional Chinese medicine; Xie & Jia (2011) elaborate types and functions of metaphorical language in internal classic of Huang Di Nei Jing; Gu, Jia, & Xie (2012) interpret the Viscera state doctrine in traditional Chinese medicine based on metaphorical theory; Jia (2013) does a research of conceptual metaphor of five element theory from the perspective of embodied mind and so on
Summary
The landmark book of Chinese medicine theory system, the Yellow Emperor, absorbed important achievements, before the Qin and Han dynasty, about astronomy, calendar, biology, geography, anthropology, psychology and philosophy and other disciplines, from many aspects such as gas, the relationship between man and heaven, God-shaped relationship. It deeply discusses and interprets the life phenomena and medical theory, and summarizes medical experience and academic theory before the Spring and Autumn Li the perspective of cognitive linguistics, this article mainly studies the emotional Metaphor paradigm, cognitive mechanisms and their meaning constructions
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