Since the Western Zhou dynasty in China, the word 聖人began to have a special meaning, entered various social fields such as literature and history and medicine, and gradually integrated into Chinese traditional culture. As an important symbol of traditional Chinese medicine culture, 聖人 shows a basic category of the core concept and value system of traditional Chinese medical classics represented by the book of Huangdi Neijing(also named The Inner Canon of Huangdi) in the pre-Qin and Han dynasties. In Huangdi Neijing which is the foundation work of the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine, 聖人is not only a man with perfect personality under the traditional Chinese moral and ethical concepts, but also a regimen practitioner and a master of universe laws and the best model of physical and mental health. Based on the traditional Chinese medicine book Huangdi Neijing, this paper uses the knowledge of Chinese philology and traditional Chinese medicine culture to trace the origin meaning of the Chinese word 聖人 from the perspective of genesis, and examines the semantic evolution of 聖人 and its cultural characteristics in the development of the Chinese nation and the Traditional Chinese medicine

西周以降，“聖人”一詞開始具有了特殊含義，進入文、史、醫等社會各領域，逐漸融入中國傳統文化。 在医学领域，“聖人”作為中醫學文化的一個重要符號，展現了以《黃帝內經》為代表的先秦兩漢時期醫學典籍的核心觀念和價值系統的基本範疇。在中醫理論體系的奠基之作《黃帝內經》中，“聖人”一詞不僅具有中國傳統道德倫理觀念下的完美人格，還是天道運行規律的掌控者，是身心健康與養生實踐的最佳典範，更是中國醫道文化的象徵與踐行者。本文就中醫典籍《黃帝內經》中所言“聖人”一語，融合運用漢語言文字學、中醫文化學知識，從發生學角度上溯本源，考釋漢語詞彙“聖人”的語義嬗變，及其在中華民族的歷史進展及醫學發展中所具有的文化特徵。

• Cihang WANG(Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zaozhuang University) | 王慈航
• Li LIU(Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zaozhuang University) | 劉麗