The reason why most people don't know the five bird play is because it is not popularized, relative to foreign Pilates, the five bird play has the advantage of health care.
1. The five birds play includes bear play, tiger play, ape play, deer play and bird play. In general, they have a variety of functions, such as strengthening the waist and abdomen, exercising the whole body muscles, enhancing the flexibility of the limbs, stretching the muscles and activating the joints of the lower limbs. It also helps regulate the spleen and stomach, opens the lungs, relieves back pain and improves physiological functions. Many middle-aged and elderly people have a variety of exercises, the most characteristic of which is the Five Animal Circus. The ape play is best for testing balance function, so regular exercise can enhance limb flexibility and also help brain development.
2. Because in the Han Dynasty, flying birds and beasts were collectively known as avian, and cultural and sporting activities were called theater, they were known as the Five-Animal Play. The Five-Animal Drama was learned from various kinds of boxing and was called the ancestor of all kinds of boxing. Its purpose is to prevent and treat disease, and it has been highly respected by healthcare families through the ages, and is a representative gong method of medical family qigong. It systematically imitates living beings and shows irreplaceable fitness advantages in strengthening the five organs, harmonizing internal gases, and reconciling the psyche.
3. When practicing Five-Animal Play, you can not only immediately feel the comfort of self-massage corresponding to the internal organs, but also the physical comfort of stretching and unblocking the meridians, safe in operation, slow, even and soft in movement and breathing, taking into account the strengthening of the five viscera and sports protection, thus tending to the good and avoiding the bad. When creating the Five Animal Circle, attention is paid to strengthening the exercise of muscle groups that are less active in daily activities or that people neglect. In order to strengthen the distal blood microcirculation, the Five Animal Play pays special attention to the movement of fingers, toes and other joints.
4. Five-Animal Opera is mainly a bionic guide, and the movements of each opera are full of symmetry and harmony, reflecting the requirements of inner spirit, outer comfort, emptiness and reality, and the combination of rigidity and flexibility. In the process of practice, the active shape is followed, both the shape of God, significantly improve the attention, effectively establish the nervous system and the movement of the harmony and consistency, so that the practitioner's signal response ability and hands-on ability to coordinate the development of the practitioner is conducive to maintaining a good state of mind and personality temperament.