The original meaning of "health maintenance" is the activity of prolonging one's life through various methods of nourishing one's life, strengthening one's body, and preventing diseases. The modern meaning of "health care" refers to the active physical and mental conservation activities according to the laws of the human life process.
In essence, health care is to maintain our own internal organs, so that life can be long meaning.
So, what are some of the traditional exercise methods?
Traditional health care is our working people after a long period of exploration and practice summarized, is the crystallization of human health wisdom, there are mainly the following kinds:
One, qigong
Qigong is unique to our country a health care. By focusing on the idea, regulating breathing, and gentle movement, it induces the potential of the human body, promotes the functions of various systems, and strengthens the body. After a long period of practice, after luck can be powerful, can break bricks and stones, to withstand heavy pressure and heavy impact, or show light work, can be suspended body paper and paper constantly, the people board balloon and ball does not break, the people step on the egg and egg does not break and so on.
Qigong
Two, eight brocade
In our country's ancient guided health art, eight brocade is the most widely circulated, the development of guided art of the greatest impact of a gong method. This gong method is divided into eight sections, each section of an action, so the name "eight brocade", practice without equipment, not subject to the limitations of the site, easy to learn, time-saving, the role of the most significant, suitable for the general public, mainly in the middle-aged and elderly people.
Baduanjin
Three, six-word trick
Six-word trick, that is, six-word trick method of health, is a method of health passed down from ancient times in our country, for the spitting method. Its most important feature is: to strengthen the body's internal organizational functions, through the breath guide, fully induced and mobilize the potential ability of the internal organs to resist the attack of disease, to prevent premature aging with the growth of human age.
The Six Character Technique is a method of exhalation. It is through the fretting, fretting, huffing, puffing, blowing, heeing six words of the different pronunciation of the mouth, lips, teeth, throat and tongue with different force, in order to pull different organs and meridians and qi and blood operation.
Six words
Four, Yi Jin Jing
Yi Jin Jing originated from China's ancient traditional Chinese medical guidance techniques, with a strong body, the effect of preventing disease, for a long time in the Buddhist and folk martial arts practitioners widely circulated among people.
The word "Yi" means "change", "change", "change"; "筋" refers to sinews, sinews and membranes; "經" means "guide" and "code". Yi Jin Jing is an internal martial arts method of changing the sinews and bones and opening up the meridians of the whole body by practicing the true qi of the dantian.
Easy Tendon Jing
Fifth, five bird play
Wuqiu opera is an important traditional Chinese guiding health, its creator is known as the "god doctor" Hua Tuo (about 145-208). The Five Birds Opera is organized according to the order of the Tiger, Deer, Bear, Ape and Bird of the Three Kingdoms, and the number of movements is according to the description of Tao Hongjing's "Record of Nurturing Nature and Extending Life", with two movements for each play and *** ten movements, which emulate the Tiger's might, the Deer's peace of mind, the Bear's composure, the Ape's dexterity, and the Bird's lightness of movement, and seek to connote the charms of the "Five Birds".
Wu Bird Opera
Sixth, Taijiquan
Taijiquan, the national intangible cultural heritage, is a kind of martial art formed by combining the changes of yin and yang and five elements of econometrics, meridian and collateral studies of Chinese medicine and the ancient guiding and spitting techniques, with the core idea of taijiquan, yin and yang dialectic concepts of traditional Chinese Confucianism and Taoism, and combining the functions of nourishing the temperament, strengthening the body and physical fitness, and combining with the changes of yin and yang and five elements of econometrics, meridian studies of Chinese medicine, and ancient guiding and spitting techniques.
Traditional Chinese Boxing combines internal and external training, softness, slowness, lightness and flexibility.
There are many schools of traditional Taijiquan, and the common schools of Taijiquan are Chen-style, Yang-style, Wu-style, Wu-style, Sun-style, and He-style, etc. Each school has its own inheritance relationship and draws on each other, but also has its own characteristics, presenting a state of blossoming.
Taijiquan
In December 2020, the 15th ordinary session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inscribed the item of Taijiquan on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO.