取象比类作为传统中医理论主要的建构工具，在中医概念形成、理论系统构建等方面发挥了重要作用。本文运用现代认知语言学的理论———隐喻，对取象比类的结构、机制等诸要素进行比较分析，得出了取象比类的实质就是“中国式隐喻”的结论。从隐喻视角揭示传统中医理论的构建机制和认知过程，有利于解读中医语言究竟是一种什么样的语言、中医理论是一种什么样的理论，它为什么这样说以及蕴含了什么等诸多问题。

Analogism which is regarded as a major theoretical construction tool of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) plays an important role in concept design, theory systematization and so on. Using the core theoretic tool of modern cognitive science (metaphor), we have compared and analyzed structures, mechanisms and other elements of analogism to come to a conclusion that the substance of analogism is "Chinese metaphor". This paper is valuable to further understand the construction mechanism and the cognitive process of TCM. It gives some enlightenment as well to practically understand basic issues of TCM, such as what the exact language of TCM is, why it says in that way, what the exact meaning is and so on.

国家自然科学基金项目（30973971）：基于认知语言逻辑心理的中医病因病机概念隐喻研究，负责人: 贾春华；国家自然科学基金项目（81173464）：“观其脉证，知犯何逆，随证治之”的认知心理学研究与动态认知逻辑刻画，负责人: 贾春华；教育部博士点基金项目（20090013110012）：基于认知语言学的中医病因病机概念隐喻研究，负责人: 贾春华。