体、用是中国哲学中的一对范畴，用以对客观事物的本体与作用、本质与现象进行思维。鸦片战争以后，西方文化东渐，与中国的传统文化发生激烈的撞击。如何处理这两种不同民族、不同时代异质文化的关系，达到交流、融和的目的，成为放在国人面前的一大课题。当时在社会复杂的文化心态中，来自统治阶层中一部分人士提出了“中学为体，西学为用”这一模式。一时成为具有相当影响的社会思潮。对此，裘廷梁表示反对，针对它把体用二元对立的思想方式进行批判，提出体用一元的论点。以牛马体用作比喻生动地作了表述。后来严复在《原强》那篇著名文章中引用了裘的比喻，对中体西用论作了深刻的批判。牛马作用的比喻在中国近代思想史中成了一段佳话。但裘对哲学上体用范畴的理解也有不足之处。文章给予应有的补充。 Body, use is a pair of categories in Chinese philosophy, to think of the noumenon and function, essence and phenomenon of objective things. After the Opium War, the western culture began its eastward collision with the traditional Chinese culture. How to deal with the relations between these two heterogeneous cultures of different nationalities and different times so as to achieve the purpose of exchange and integration has become a major issue for the Chinese people. At that time, in the complex cultural mentality of society, some people from the ruling class put forward the model of “middle school as the body and Western learning as the purpose”. For a time has become quite influential social trend of thought. In this regard, Qiu Tingliang objected, aimed at it to use the binary opposition to the ideological way to criticize, put forward the idea of ​​using a dollar. The use of cattle equine vividly made a statement. Yan Fu later quoted the analogy of Qiu in the famous article “Former Qiang” and profoundly criticized the theory of Western China. The metaphor of cattle and horses has become a story in the history of modern Chinese thought. However, Qiu’s philosophical understanding of the use of categories also has some shortcomings. The article should be supplemented.