古人对风的认识与中医模型思维的关联

Correlation between ancients’ understanding of wind and traditional Chinese medicine model thinking

模型思维是中医认识宇宙生命现象的独特思维方式,这种思维方式的形成与古代中国人对风的认识有重要关联。古人很早就对风有独特的关注和敏锐的感触。风在方向、声音等方面随四时轮转有规律的变化,成为地上的人们在天象变化的基础上精确把握万物变化的重要关联气象,为古人最终形成时变-气变-物变的顺动对应模型奠定了重要基础。这种对应模型也影响中医认知生命现象的思维方式。风的变化与时空的奇妙吻合使得古人可以将天地万物的变化置于一个和谐稳定的秩序里,进而成为中国古人宏观把握复杂现象多维度、多因素因果关联的特有方式。

Model thinking is the special thinking style for TCM to view the universe and life phenomena. The formation of this thinking style is closely related with the Chinese ancients’ special view of wind. Ancients paid great and acute attention to the change of wind. They found that its direction and sound changed regularly with the change of four seasons. It was an important phenomenon of qi based on the change of astronomical phenomena, which was used to predict the change of creatures on the earth. It laid the foundation for the shaping of matching model, that is the model of time-qi-creature change orderly. This model was used by TCM to explain the nature of life and disease. The amazing dovetail of the change of wind and the structure of time and space showed a harmonious and stable order in which everything lived. It is the special way for Chinese ancients to figure out macroscopically the causal relation of complicated phenomena by multi-dimension and multi-factor analysis.