Guided Classical Books Provenance

Qigong term. It is also known as dao guiding and guiding. It is a fitness and disease treatment method to harmonize form and spirit through the movement of the limbs, and belongs to the category of ancient qigong movement. It is characterized by "guiding the qi to make it harmonious, and leading the body to make it soft". Guiding has a long history in China.

The "Guiding Diagram" unearthed from the No. 3 Western Han Tomb in Changsha's Mawangdui in 1974 contains diagrams of more than 40 kinds of guiding postures. Sui Chao Yuanfang's "Treatise on the Origin and Condition of All Diseases" contains more than 260 kinds of guiding methods for curing diseases.

①This refers to the ancient art of prolonging life, which can be found in Zhuangzi ji xie: "Guiding the divine qi, nourishing the prana with the form, the way of prolonging life, and the art of residing in the form".

2 refers to qigong practitioners to pass through the chakras and move the qi. Refinement of qigong qi blockage, qigong practitioners for their blockage, lead through the qi, also known as the guide, see Lu Jinchuan "qigong traditional terminology dictionary".

3 refers to the activities of the tendons and bones, the movement of the joints of the limbs, see "Suwen - different method of prescription": "so its disease more impotence, cold and heat, it is advisable to know the guide according to the stilts," the Wang Bing note. All the scriptures sound and meaning" also said: "all people since the mo since pinch, stretching hands and feet, in addition to the labor to remove boredom, called the guide."

4 "the source of all diseases," volume 27: "so that the body capsule full of gas. The one who draws it in, draws out the evil and ambient qi in this old body, and then draws it out, so it is called guiding and drawing."

⑤Hua Tuo believed that the human body must move in order to maintain health. If you move, your diet will be digested and your blood will flow. Its creation of the five bird play is the method of guidance, see The Book of the Later Han Dynasty, the square art biography contained in the "Hua Tuo biography": "It is the ancient immortals, for the introduction of the matter, bears through the owl, lead waist to pull the body ...... I have a technique, the name of the five bird play ...... also to get rid of disease, and benefit hoof and foot, to be a guide."

6 "Hold Park Zi - other purposes": "or stretching, or bending, or pitching, or walking and lying, or leaning, or tramping, or Xu step, or chanting, or resting, are all guided also."

It is called Dao-guiding. To active body movement, and with the breathing movement or self-tui na and carry out a kind of exercise, prevention and treatment of disease, is also an ancient health care method, later for the Taoist inheritance.

"Zhuangzi - carve": "blowing breath, spit out the old and new, bears through the bird Shen, for the life is just carry on, this Tao cited by the Shi, the people who raise the shape of the Peng Zu Shoukao people of the good also." Tang - Cheng Xuan Ying note: "guide the divine qi, in order to nourish the form of prana, the way of prolonging life, the art of residing in the form of"

(Nanhua Zhenjing Note). Jin - Li Yi note: "Guide the qi to make it harmonious, guide the body to make it soft." It means that by adjusting the breathing, the qi of the internal organs and meridians and smooth; through the movement of the limbs, so that the human body movements are flexible and soft.

"Su Wen - different method of prescription theory": "Its disease is more impotence, cold and heat, the treatment should be guided by the massage." Tang - Wang Bing note: "Guide, said shake the tendons and bones, moving the joints." Tang-Hui-Lin "all the sutra yin yi": "all people since the mo pinch, stretching hands and feet, in addition to the labor to remove the annoyance, known as the guide."

Song "Sheng Ji General Records": "the five viscera and six bowels, all the skeleton nine orifices, are a gas of the pass, the gas flow is the form and the gas hostile [li Li Li] is sick, the method of guidance, so the line of blood and gas, the joints, and dispel the exceptions to the evil, so that it can not be in."

Changsha Mawangdui No. 3 Han Tomb unearthed in the "guide map" painted more than 40 kinds of guide posture images. Sui Chao Yuanfang's "Treatise on the Origin and Condition of Various Diseases" contains more than two hundred and sixty guiding methods.

Book title. ①The silk painting from the early Western Han Dynasty, unearthed from the No. 3 Han Tomb at Mawangdui, Changsha, in 1973, is the earliest guiding atlas in China to date. The original painting on silk is about 100 centimeters long connected with the 40-centimeter silk book in the front section. The height of the painting is 40 centimeters. There are forty-four guiding images of various figures, divided into four layers, each layer has 11 small pictures. The average height of each small picture is 9 to 12 centimeters. Each small picture is a portrait of a person, male or female, old or young, either clothed or with bare back, all painted in brushstrokes.

Except for the individual portraits for instrumental exercise, most of them are unarmed exercises. There are eight drawings involving animals. Birds are the most numerous, accounting for four pictures, counting birds, harriers, cranes, sparrows. Apes and monkeys are the next most common, with two figures. In addition, there is a dragon and a bear. Contrasted with the five birds of prey lack of deer and tiger. There is no picture name, the current name is set by the Mawangdui Han Tomb Palindrome finishing group.

② "Sui book of books": "guide map" three volumes. Original Note: standing one, sitting one, lying one.

3 "Guide Figure Preface". Liang Su made, originally contained in the "Chongwen general catalog", Wang Yinglin "Han Shu Yiwen Zhi Kaoshi" citation. This map may be the Tang Dynasty map, the Department of the early Song Dynasty records.

4 "cloud book seven signs" volume 34 "Mr. Ning guide health method" has a picture. It is also a Song painting. The original source is unknown.

5 The six qi guiding diagrams, one volume, in the Chongwen zongmu (General Catalogue).

⑥ Huang Ting Wu Zang Guiding Figure, a volume, in the General Catalogue of Chongwen (above ② to ⑥ are anonymous).

⑦ Qing - Jing Shen Shanfang published "Guide Figure", but not widely circulated.

Qigong works. The author is unknown. 1 vol. Ming Hu Wenhuan. Published in 1592. This book is divided into stroke, wind paralysis, heart and abdominal pain, tonic and other 27 doors, detailing 119 kinds of all diseases guide method. Before the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of gong methods were systematically summarized, and for the same disease, many kinds of guiding methods were listed, so as to facilitate the identification and application of gong. The existing Ming engraved book, 1986 Chinese Medicine Ancient Books Publishing House published language translation.

Qi Gong Gong method, see "storage incense". *** there are 6 methods: heart disease guide: sitting, two hands clenched fist, force left and right equal, each six degrees. Subsequently, a hand on the wrist, a hand top empty as a heavy stone. And two hands forked, feet in the hands of each six degrees. Close your breath for a long time. Close the eyes, three swallowing, three knocking teeth. Liver Disease Guide: Sit upright and press both hands together. Sit upright, press both hands together, and then press the body slowly, three or five times each on the left and right. Sit upright, tug the two hands together, and then turn over to the chest for five or six degrees. Kidney Disease Guiding: Sit upright, and lead the rib from the ear to the left and right with both hands for three to five degrees. The second hand is directed to the chest and thrown, several times to the left and right. Slow down the body for three to five degrees. The foot oversteps before and after, and each of the left and right ten degrees. When lying down, sit on the bed and hang down your feet, undress and close your breath, lick your tongue on the palate, look at the top of your eyes, and lift and shrink the valley. Hand massage two kidney points each 120 times, knocking teeth. Lung Disease Guidance: Sit upright, with both hands on the ground, shrinking the body and curving the spine, five fists upward. Reverse fist pounding back, left and right each five, closed for a long time. Close the eyes, knock the teeth, and swallow the fluids. Spleen Disease Guide: Sit with one foot extended and one foot flexed. Put the second hand behind the backswitch, each three to five degrees. Kneeling, both hands according to the ground, force review, tiger's eye three or five degrees. Bile Disease Guidance: Sit flat, close the palms of the feet and tilt the head. Both hands pull the ankle up and shake it for three to five degrees. Sit with both hands on the ground and lift the body and waist three to five degrees. This method of treatment of various diseases of the five organs.

Qigong Gong. For dynamic gong, see The Essentials of Cultivating Age. With blowing word guide, can be sitting, with two hands shrugged, around the cited coercion three, five degrees; and will be the hands of the reverse knee pull elbow, around the same twisting body three, five degrees to the foot before and after the foot, left and right each dozens of degrees. This is a good way to get rid of the wind and evil accumulation in the waist and kidneys.

For qigong gong methods, see The Essentials of Cultivation. How to do it: Use the word fretting to guide, sit upright, and with both hands on the ground, shrink your body and bend your spine upward three times, and then hit your back with your backhand, three times each on the left and right. After a long time, close your eyes and swallow the liquid, knock your teeth and get up. It can remove the wind and evil accumulation in the lungs, and remove the wind and poisonous closed air in the chest.