古代中医学家通过自然界来认识人体,“天人相应”这种隐性认知手段,恰好可用现代隐喻认知学使其凸显出来。以“火”为例,从人类所体察的火的特性出发,探讨古代中医学家从“自然之火”到“人体之火”的隐喻认知过程,揭示在中医理论中存在一个以“火”为始源域的中医概念隐喻认知系统。广而言之,中医学研究人体内部世界,其理论形成过程正是一种具身的隐喻认知行为。
The ancient traditional Chinese medical (TCM) physicians understood the body by nature. So-called 'correspondence between man and universe' has become tacit knowledge which happened to be highlighted with the modern metaphor cognitive science. Take 'fire' for example, to explore how the TCM physicians cognize the 'fire in body' from the properties of 'fire in nature', and to reveal the existence of a conceptual metaphor cognitive system with 'fire' as the source domain in TCM theory. By extension, the formation process of the TCM theory was precisely an embodied metaphor cognitive behavior.