The bamboo slip and silk medical book is a kind of unearthed literature with health preserving and medical methods as the main content. Its health preserving thought is integrated into the philosophical concepts such as valuing life

isomorphism between heaven and human

yin and yang

and essence qi

forming a complete theoretical construction. The intellectual context of this health preserving theory is the public philosophical foundation formed after the Western Zhou Dynasty

and has the relationship of same origin different stream and interaction with the hundred schools of thought. The contents of the bamboo slip and silk medical book can be classified as "technical skills"

which is not only a document to record practical technology

but also another line of thought for independent development

with its own development track and ideological connotation. Among the hundred schools of thought

the health preserving thoughts of bamboo slip and silk medical book are especially closely related to Taoism’s

mainly the thought of Laozi in early period.