XING Yurui. Research on the Concept of Xiang Thinking in Chinese Medicine[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2014, 55(10): 811-814.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2014.10.001.
The naming and definition of Xiang Thinking varies from four aspects such as thinking objects
thinking tools
thinking objectives and thinking subjects.Xiang Thinking is a kind of thinking modes that is based on the appearance of objective things and using images or imagery as a tool to express the abstract sense of the Xiang world.As an association thinking
Xiang Thing is a transformation and interaction of objective Xiang and mind Xiang.