Chinese medicine has a diverse and regular disease naming system. The naming ways are mainly based on symptom

severity of diseases

causes

location of diseases

nature of diseases

and pathogenesis. By analyzing the documents from oracle to Treatise on Cold Pathogenic Disease（ 伤寒论） and Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber（ 金匮要略）

the article summarizes that there is an obvious evolution trend which reflects deepening and refining in the historical process of disease differentiation. It has the inspiring significance for current scholar development of Chinese medicine.