Ji Kang’s Ideas about Life Nurturing (Ⅰ)
2018-07-30
Ji Kang (224-263), with the courtesy name as Shuye, was born in Zhi County (now is in Suixi, Anhui province), Qiaojun, Wei Kingdom during Three Kingdoms Period. He was an extraordinary think, writer and musician.
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A Trace to the Source of Cultural Connotation of Hua Tuo Wu Qin Xi (Ⅳ)
2018-07-25
For the aforesaid reasons, the fact that Hua Tuo named the Five-Animal movements with “Xi” is an embodiment of holistic view of the Five-Phase theory; Hua Tuo’s Wu Qin Xi surpassed the entertainment sense of the Palace “Hundred Plays”, shifted to the field of body building and life nurturing,
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A Trace to the Source of Cultural Connotation of Hua Tuo Wu Qin Xi (Ⅲ)
2018-07-24
“The law of five phases and the opposition of yin and yang decide all relations, movements and transformations of everything in the world.” Due to the driving efforts by the yin-yang school, Five-Phase Concept as a world outlook achieved rapid development, and became a dominant mode of world recognition in the Han dynasty.
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A Trace to the Source of Cultural Connotation of Hua Tuo Wu Qin Xi (Ⅱ)
2018-07-23
“The law of five phases and the opposition of yin and yang decide all relations, movements and transformations of everything in the world.” Due to the driving efforts by the yin-yang school, Five-Phase Concept as a world outlook achieved rapid development, and became a dominant mode of world recognition in the Han dynasty.
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A Trace to the Source of Cultural Connotation of Hua Tuo Wu Qin Xi (Ⅰ)
2018-07-20
Down through the ages, people exhaust themselves with perseverance exploring and seeking the way of life nurturing, desiring to reach the living state of a perfect life. Wu Qin Xi (Five-Animal Exercises) is the crystallization of Hua Tuo’s explorations and practice of life nurturing. It not only made positive contributions to physical and mental health of the people in all ages, but also produced far-reaching influence on the development of body building and life nurturing methods of later ages, especially Health Qigong.
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Discovery of Health Qigong Instrument Methods in History（Ⅳ）
2018-07-12
Wan Yu Xian Shu is said to be written by the physician named Cao Wuji in late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. It is one of the most important and most influential books of ancient Qigong. Many exercises spread so far are mostly based on this book.
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Discovery of Health Qigong Instrument Methods in History（Ⅲ）
2018-07-11
Wu Qin Xi was created by a famous doctor named Hua Tuo in Han Dynasty. It is an exercise that imitates the movements and expressions of five kinds of animals, including tiger, deer, bear, monkey and bird. The exercise imitating animals appeared early before the Han Dynasty, such as the record in Zhuang Zi that
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Discovery of Health Qigong Instrument Methods in History（II）
2018-07-10
In the bamboo slips unearthed from the tomb of Han Dynasty located at Zhangjiashan, Jiangling, Hube Province from the end of 1983 to early 1984, there are two medical books, namely Mai Shu (Channel Book) and Yin Shu (Stretch Book). Yin Shu (Stretch Book) is written in text that introduces each single movement about Daoyin in details, and the Daoyin methods for treatment of diseases. In addition, Yin Shu (Stretch Book) also analyzed the causes of human diseases, pointing out that, ”That people get sick must be due to summer-heat dampness, wind coldness, rain exposure, opening and closing of the grain of skin and the texture of the subcutaneous flesh, uncoordinated diet, and failure to response to cold and hot weather”. According to Yin Shu (Stretch Book), we found that in ancient times, it is a common form for people to use or have the aid of instruments for conduction and life nurturing.
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