试论《曾国藩家书》的养生观

Elaboration on Ideas and Methods of Keeping Healthy in Zeng Guofan’s Family Letters

养生既是追求个体生命健康目标的一种需要,更是对家庭、社会的一种责任。《曾国藩家书》中的养生思想及养生方法,既是曾国藩养生实践的经验总结,又是曾氏家族养生方法的集中体现。其倡导尊重自然、顺应自然、合理调节的养生理念,提出养生与养心、养生与立志、养生与修身相结合的养生思想,倡导从饮食、睡眠、运动、休闲等方面践行养生之道,对现代人思考该不该养生以及回答养生养什么、怎样养生等问题有重要的参考价值。

Keeping healthy is not only a need to live a healthy life but also a responsibility for the family and society.Ideas and methods of keeping healthy in Zeng Guofan’s Family Letters are the summary of Zeng Guofan’s experience in keeping healthy and embodying Zeng’s ways of keeping healthy.His view of keeping healthy includes concept of respecting the nature,adapting to the nature and reasonably adjusting the body,ideas of combining keeping physically healthy with maintaining mentally healthy,being ambitious and cultivating moral character as well as his methods of keeping healthy through diet,sleep,exercise and relaxation.They are of referential values for modern people to keep healthy.