在具身心智- - 认知科学的背景下研究五行学说这一理论建构型隐喻，探索五行学说为中医药理论提供认知框架与建构概念基底的作用，揭示五行学说具有的"归纳开放性"及其"可拓展性"。即其暗示的进一步研究策略与运用创造性推理来生成新奇的富含有价值信息的可能。应用认知语言学、认知心理学、认知逻辑学的方法，考察木、火、土、金、水概念隐喻的形成及其相互关系的建立；以五行学说在中医理论构建过程中所起的作用为轴心展开多方位的探求，探讨五行学说视域下的中医藏象、病机、治法、五色、五味、五时、五方等概念的隐喻特征。本研究以中医经典或名著原文为语料，应用概念隐喻理论、范畴原型理论、概念整合理论、隐喻逻辑探求中医藏象、病机、治法等概念隐喻的形成；分析其工作机制；探讨藏象、病机、治法等概念隐喻逻辑特征；昭示五行学说影响下中医概念隐喻的心理、语言、逻辑基础；它存在着什么样的难点，具有怎样的研究应用前景？

The theory of Five Elements which is a constructed metaphor is to be studied under the background of Embodied cognition in Cognitive Science. We want to explore the role that Five Elements Theory has provided the cognitive frame and foundational construction for Chinese Medicine; reveal its inductive open character and expansibility,and use its research strategies and creative deduce to produce unprecedented possible which contains valuable information. From the perspective of Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Logic, we would know more about Five Elements Theory, such as how to form the conceptual metaphor and establish their relationships. We would expand multi-faceted discussion by the axis of roles that in constructing Chinese Medicine Theory played by Five Elements; study the character of conceptual metaphor in Five Elements Theory including visceral manifestation, pathogenesis, therapeutic method, five colors, five flavours, five seasons and five directions,and so on. In this research, we would take classical works of Chinese Medicine as corpus, using Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Prototype Theory , Integration Theory and Metaphor Logic Theory to study the formation of Chinese concept, to analyse its working mechanism, to know the characteristics of metaphor logic of Chinese Medicine, to explain the psychological, linguistic, logical foundation of Chinese conceptual metaphor under the influence of Five Elements Theory,and to know difficulties and future prospects of the rasearch .