"Among the ancient guiding techniques in China, Baduan Brocade was the most widely spread and had the greatest influence on the development of guiding techniques". Yu Youren, a famous calligrapher in modern China, has been practicing Baduanjin at four o'clock every afternoon, and his fitness effect is very good. Baduanjin can be divided into sitting Baduanjin and standing Baduanjin, North Baduanjin and South Baduanjin, Wen Baduanjin and Wu Baduanjin, Shaolin Baduanjin and Taiji Baduanjin, which are deeply loved by Chinese intellectuals and practitioners.
The Health Qigong Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport entrusted Beijing Sport University to re-study and sort out Baduanjin, and named it Baduanjin and Twelve Duanjin.
Tao Hongjing paraphrased the words in the Book of Health Preservation (the author and content are unknown): "Five pains: one is fatigue, the other is thinking, the third is fatigue, the fourth is worry, and the fifth is fatigue. Five pains lead to six poles: qi pole, blood pole, muscle pole, bone pole, essence pole and marrow pole. Six poles are seven injuries (Tao Hongjing, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Chu Ji: On the News of Raising Life, p. 95, Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 20 1 1 edition.