Personal Reflections:What Changed for Me After 30 Years in Chinese Medicine

摘要

A few hundred years ago, travellers from the West brought a message from the middle kingdom. This message sparked the imagination of artists and scholars who drew paintings and made porcelain ware about China, from how they imagined ir to be in that day. This meant that all the Chinese had slanry eyes, hair braids, flat round farmer's hats, dragons soaring through the air, scrolls with unintelligible markings, and lots of bamboo. This menagerie, which only vaguely corresponded to the truth and was later termed chinoiserie in German, originated from the French words for China and phantasy.