Chinese medicine (CM) has a history of thousands of years. It is formed by summarizing the precious experience of understanding life, maintaining health, and fighting diseases accumulated in daily life, production and medical practice. It not only has systematic theories, but also has abundant preventative and therapeutic methods for disease. It may be trivially true that CM has a long history, but it is hard to ignore that the placement of this statement at the beginning of a scientific article implies an argument from antiquity that CM should be taken seriously because of this long history.