《遵生八笺》成书背景及学术思想阐论

The Compiling Background and Academic Ideas of Zun Sheng Ba Jian

《遵生八笺》为明代高濂所撰,是明代最具代表性的综合性养生著作,有"养生百科全书"之称。《遵生八笺》是在明代末期高度集权的皇家统治和经济日益发展的矛盾冲突下,文人学者阶层追求世俗享乐、讲究精致生活方式的写照,同时也是明代养生学繁荣发展的体现。《遵生八笺》的学术思想主要包括四个方面:其一,强调生命意识,养生的前提就是要尊重生命;其二,崇尚道家养生,书中所载的养生方法绝大多数来自道家;其三,重视精神调摄,始终把精神道德的培植和情志品性的调摄放在首要的位置;其四,主张综合调养。

Zun Sheng Ba Jian was written by Gao Lian in the Ming Dynasty,which the most representative and comprehensive work on health preservation in the Ming Dynasty,is known as the "Encyclopedia of Health Preservation".It is not only a vivid reflection of the general literati and scholars′ pursuit of secular pleasure and exquisite lifestyle under the conflicts between the highly centralized royal rule and the increasing economic development in the late Ming Dynasty but also a manifestation of the prosperity and development of health cultivation in the Ming Dynasty.The academic ideas of Zun Sheng Ba Jian mainly include four aspects:First,it emphasizes life consciousness,the prerequisite for health preservation is self-respect for life.Second,it advocates Taoist health preservation,most of the health preservation methods and experience recorded in it comes from Taoism.Third,it addresses spiritual adjustment,always putting the cultivation of spiritual morality and the adjustment of emotional character in the first place.And final,it advocates integrative nurturing.