Quality evaluation of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, a critical link in the inheritance and innovation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), is currently confronted with structural dilemmas including fragmented standard system, data silos, intergenerational talent gaps, and conflicts between technical and ethics. From the collaborative “humanities-science” perspective, this study systematically reviews the evolution and inherent contradictions of TCM medicinal materials quality evaluation from an experience-led paradigm to digital-intelligent governance. To address the prominent issues of “replacing quality with quantity” and the absence of value rationality, this study constructs a four-dimensional collaborative governance framework underpinned by digital-intelligent technologies, which encompasses the core dimensions of quality, yield, humanities, and ecology. Through such implementation paths as full industrial chain traceability, intelligent modeling, and human-machine collaborative processing, the framework facilitates the explicitization of tacit knowledge and the quantification of ecological and cultural values. This study argues that the quality evaluation system for traditional Chinese medicinal materials should shift from the monism of technical rationality to the dual parallel emphasis of both value rationality and technical rationality. It emphasizes that the application of relevant technologies should be guided and regulated by humanities, so as to advance the transformation of TCM medicinal materials quality evaluation towards digital-intelligent governance.

Chinese medicinal materials  /  quality evaluation  /  traditional experience  /  digital-intelligent technologies  /  modernization of traditional Chinese medicine  /  technological rationality  /  value rationality  /  digital-intelligent governance