Philosophy and Aesthetic Background of Chinese Acupuncture.

Kavindhya Bandara
2 min readMar 8, 2019

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Aesthetic is concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty. Acupuncture is complementary media practice that entails stimulating certain points on the body. It began 2000 years ago in china.

Acupuncture treatment has many benefits. It is used for many health conditions. They are Anxiety, Migraine, Nausea, Stress, Depression, Headache, Side pains of cancer patients, Respiratory disorders, Digestive diseases, Tension in the muscles and Blood pressure etc..

Acupuncture has Chinese culture. But Chinese philosophy important among the main features. Accordingly, it is included acupuncture treatment. According to the Chinese philosophy has two strength. There are “Yin” and “Yang”. According to Chinese view “Yin” and “Yang” located on upper and lower body in humans. As a result of these two strengths, the body says that the body is balanced.This theory is seen in artworks in China.

Especially, this article is based on aesthetic and symmetry value in acupuncture. Mainly Chinese treatment healing method has special feature to similar in Chinese aesthetic and symmetry. Healing while Chinese acupuncture needle on body has linear and geometric patterns. The shape of the screen is reflected based on the nature of the human body.

Many Chinese artworks are created about acupuncture treatment. They are Paintings, Movies, Music, Clothes, different types of symbol, covers and stickers of cream and herbals, designs of tattoo and toys etc.. These all artworks have Chinese philosophy and the culture.

In general, most of the art works are completely based on the culture and philosophy in a country.

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Kavindhya Bandara

A Dancer, Choreographer, Movement explorer & Researcher. I have mastered different varieties of dance styles in Sri Lanka, India and Europe.