To study the technique of surface reconstruction for Chinese medicinal materials from its cross-sectional images and to display its three dimensional structure.The pattern recognition technique is used to complete the classification and matching of various structures, then the triangle surface approximation is used to produce the 3D surface of the structure.The 3D structure is reconstructed and can be viewed by flexible way based on SGI workstation. The technique and method provided by this paper is contributive to the study and view of various structure of Chinese medicinal materials, and is available to biomedical image processing field.