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Jin Yong’s martial arts novels are literary works with great influence in modern literature. The chivalrous spirit is the core of the novel, and the hero’s chivalrous behavior is the research hotspot of many scholars. After summarizing previous studies, this paper analyzed the chivalrous behavior of the protagonists in Jin Yong’s chivalric novels from the perspective of psychology. It also discussed the essence, influencing factors, occurrence, development and consequences of the chivalrous behavior as well as the enlightenment of the chivalrous behavior to our real society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"The spleen storing yi (overall mental activities) and governing si (thoughts)" is one of the theoretical guiding ideologies in TCM treatment of emotional diseases. Although there is a wealth of clinical experience to support its feasibility, its connotation is still ambiguous with a lacking in objective indicators, resulting in difficulty in wide clinical application. In this paper, by comparing this theory with corresponding knowledge in modern emotional psychology, the commonality and individuality are compared. Based on that, the theory is further interpreted from the three levels of cognition, physiology and expression. Then combined with modern immune cytokine theory, the relationship between emotion and spleen is analyzed, and it's found that emotion is closely related to the spleen with bidirectional adjustment. By adopting such a thinking mode to combine the spleen and emotion, a better clinical efficacy may be achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]