中医与人类生存和健康的关系，及其在民族复兴和经济发展中的战略地位问题已经日益引起人们的普遍关注。为了使人们对于中医的理论有一个概括的了解，须在中华文化及其自然与生命之道宏大的精神背景下，并比较现代科学革命的最新进展，重申中华医道的认识领域、认识过程、范畴网络、实践目标，以及阴阳五行、藏象经络、病因病机、治则本草等理论纲纪。

The strategic position of TCM has increasingly been attracting peoples' attention. In order to make TCM more understood, the paper describes the cognition field, cognition process, the scope and network and the practice goal of Chinese medical knowledge, as well as some special topics such as the yin-yang and five elements, the visceral outward manifestation and the channels and collaterals, the pathogeny, the rule of treatment and material medica, etc.