外國人最想和你聊的文化話題：中醫(yī)

     Chinese medicine is useful.
     中醫(yī)是非常有用的。
     It can date back to several thousand years ago.
     中醫(yī)有幾千多年的歷史了。
     It can not only cure the sickness but also keep people healthy.
     中醫(yī)不僅能治病，更重要的是它能調(diào)理身體。
     Many illnesses can not be healed by modern medicine but the hinese medicine. Lots of foreigners come to China to ask for Chinese medicine's help.
     有些用西醫(yī)的方法不能治愈的病，中醫(yī)卻可以，所以有很多國外的人都來看中醫(yī)。
     Chinese medicine won't harm your stomach, and it has no side effect.
     中醫(yī)不會傷害胃，沒有副作用。
     Chinese medicine originated in China's Yellow River Basin, and has long established academic system. In the long process of development, Chinese medicine generated a number of famous doctors, as well as appeared a lot of important schools and classics.
     中醫(yī)發(fā)源于中國黃河流域，很早就建立了學(xué)術(shù)體系。中醫(yī)在漫長的發(fā)展過程中，歷代都有不同的創(chuàng)造，涌現(xiàn)了許多名醫(yī)，出現(xiàn)了許多重要學(xué)派和名著。
     As early as the Xia and Shang Dynasty (about 2070 century BC-1046 BC), tincture and medical soup had emerged in China.
     早在夏商時期（約公元前2070-前1046），中國就已出現(xiàn)藥酒及湯液。
     The earliest existing pharmaceutical monograph, Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing is the book that made by a number of medical experts collecting and summarizing many medical pharmaceutical materials in Qin and Han Dynasty (221 BC-AD 220).
     現(xiàn)存最早的藥學(xué)專著《神農(nóng)本草經(jīng)》是秦漢時期（公元前221-公元220年）眾多醫(yī)學(xué)家搜集、總結(jié)了豐富藥學(xué)資料而成書的。
     During Qin and Han Dynasties, there formed the Huang Di Nei Jing with systemic theory.
     秦漢時期，形成了《黃帝內(nèi)經(jīng)》這樣具有系統(tǒng)理論的著作。
     From Wei, Jin, South and North Dynasties (220AD-589AD) to Sui, Tang, and Wudai Dynasties (581AD-960AD), pulse-check has made outstanding achievements. Wang Shuhe summarized 24 pulse conditions in his book The Book of Pulse.
     從魏晉南北朝（公元220-589年）到隋唐五代（公元581-960年），脈診取得了突出的成就。晉代名醫(yī)王叔和所著的《脈經(jīng)》歸納了24種脈象。
     Tang dynasty enjoyed a economic prosperity, thus promoting the development of TCM. The government of Tang dynasty took the lead in completing editing the world's first pharmacopoeia book-the Tang Ben Cao.
     唐代（公元618-907年）經(jīng)濟繁榮，促進了中藥學(xué)的發(fā)展。唐政府率先完成了世界第一部藥典性本草--《唐本草》的編修工作。
     With western medicine introduced into China from the Ming dynasty, a group of doctors suggested the combination of Chinese and western medicine which was the harbinger of combining traditional Chinese and western medicine. When it comes to Ming dynasty (AD 1368-1644), medical experts Li Shizhen finished TCM masterpiece Ben Cao Gang Mu, including 1892 medicines, becoming the greatest Chinese materia work.
     從明代開始，西方醫(yī)學(xué)傳入中國。一批醫(yī)學(xué)家們主張"中西醫(yī)匯通"，成為當(dāng)代中西醫(yī)結(jié)合的先聲。到了明代（公元1368-1644年），醫(yī)藥學(xué)家李時珍歷時27年，完成了中藥學(xué)巨著《本草綱目》，全書載藥1892種，成為中國本草史上最偉大的集成之作。
     In the end of the Qing dynasty, the Westernization Movement caught the traditional Chinese medicine-field's attention.
     清朝末期，洋務(wù)運動引起了傳統(tǒng)中醫(yī)界的重視。
     Traditional Chinese Medicine generally refers to the medicine based on the traditional medicine created by the people of Han nationality, it is also called Han medicine.
     中醫(yī)一般指中國以漢族勞動人民創(chuàng)造的傳統(tǒng)醫(yī)學(xué)為主的醫(yī)學(xué)，所以也稱漢醫(yī)。
     In the modern medical system, Chinese medicine is classified as an alternative medicine.
     在現(xiàn)今世界的醫(yī)療體系中，中醫(yī)學(xué)被歸類為替代醫(yī)學(xué)中的一支。
     Now, traditional Chinese medicine is still a common means of treating disease in China.
     現(xiàn)代，中醫(yī)在中國仍然是治療疾病的常用手段之一。
     TCM theory comes from a summary of medical experience, the concept of Yin and Yang and the concept of the five elements (of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth) in ancient China.
     中醫(yī)理論來源于對醫(yī)療經(jīng)驗的總結(jié)及中國古代的陰陽五行（金、木、水、火、土）思想。