As the country promotes the body, people are also paying more and more attention to health issues, so the whole country, are beginning to fitness, some love to soak in the gym, some like to run free, girls like yoga, rope skipping, love of the outdoors like to ride mountain bikes, rock climbing, the old people like to dance a square dance, play a Tai Chi. So, how did the ancients fitness?
Archery
Many celebrities in history are fitness experts, with a good strength, such as Confucius, the sage Confucius. Many people would have thought he was just a scholar and had no strength in his hands. In fact, the historical Confucius was a full meter nine, was a Xuan Ang big man, has a body of strength. His main means of fitness was archery, which he was very good at, and he was also very good at driving a horse-drawn carriage.
Archery was one of the six arts of the gentleman, and Confucius was not only a keen archer himself, but also required his 3,000 disciples to practise it. At that time, the era was chaotic, and Confucius took his fellow disciples to travel around the world, which would not have worked without real skill. Because of his regular exercise, Confucius lived to be seventy-three years old, which was definitely a high life expectancy in those days.
Moving bricks
Historical military generals have unique means of fitness, and some have very peculiar fitness habits, such as the famous poet Tao Yuanming's great-grandfather Tao Kan, who was a famous martial arts general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and because of his lack of ambition he was ordered to stay at home, and he was worried that he would waste his body because of his comfortable life, and he uniquely created the ? The Brick Method of Fitness? So he put a pile of bricks in the yard, and every morning he had to move the bricks out, and then move them back in the evening, day after day.
Tao Kan did this, in fact, the purpose is not simply fitness, but look forward to the day you can also go into battle for the Eastern Jin Dynasty to kill the enemy, to recover a large part of the Western Jin Dynasty lost the native land.
Grabbing and lifting stone locks
In ancient times, those who aspired to take the martial arts exams had a systematic approach to fitness, and usually they practiced their strength by grabbing and lifting stone locks. Ancient stone locks were chiseled out of whole blocks of stone and varied in weight, from a few dozen pounds for small ones to more than a hundred pounds for large ones, and even heavier ones, and there was a weight-lifting test in the wushu exams.
In the Republic of China, the martial arts style is very prevalent, many people in their leisure time will also be through the lifting of stone locks exercise, so far in many martial arts style in the place of prosperity can still see the size of the practice stone.
Wu Anqiu Opera
Then there is Hua Tuo's Wu Anqiu Opera. As a matter of fact, Hua Tuo's original Five-Animal Circle has been lost, and the popular Five-Animal Circle is nothing but a later creation. The Five Animal Circus imitates the physical movements of five animals, namely tiger, deer, bear, ape and bird, and is used to channel qi and blood.
Also, the Shaolin Temple first created boxing is also for fitness. Because the monks often sat in meditation and recited sutras, the qi and blood were not smooth, so Dharma created a simple movement based on the movements of the Buddha's statue of the eighteen hands of the Lohan, which could be used to exercise the body after the recitation of the sutras, and then gradually developed into the actual combat against the enemy of the martial arts.
This shows that, no matter when, our people have not given up the fitness of this big event, after all, the body is a revolutionary capital, have a good body is so important.