What are the traditional health preserving methods in China?

1, adjust your mentality. The so-called "consciousness" actually refers to people's psychological state. Laozi pointed out in Tao Te Ching that too many words, too many emotional impulses and too many thinking activities may damage the essence. Chinese medicine believes that anger hurts the liver, likes to hurt the spleen, and worries about the lungs and fears hurting the kidneys. If left unchecked, it will even endanger life. Therefore, many health care experts have created many "emotional" health care methods to maintain mental happiness and mental health, such as keeping the spirit inside, relaxing the mood, discharging depression, and being active and self-disciplined.

2. Exercise. The traditional theory of health preservation has always believed that the movement and stillness of the body are the unity of opposites, so the active maintenance method is moderate exercise. There are many methods of keeping in good health by exercise, such as Wuqinxi, Baduanjin, Shierduanjin, Taiji Chuan, meditation, etc., all of which have been handed down from ancient times, and are characterized by flexibility and flexibility, with the aim of relaxing the body and mind and nourishing the body. Modern broadcast gymnastics, aerobics, square dance and other sports that integrate fitness and performance, exercise and entertainment have already spread to campuses and institutions. In recent years, square dance has swept the country and even gone abroad to the world.

3. adapt to the environment. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Laozi clearly put forward the concept of "following nature". On this basis, Huangdi Neijing established a specific health preserving method of "adapting to the four seasons and cold and heat". Later generations of health care experts have developed a series of very practical methods to adapt to the environment, such as adapting to the four seasons, adapting to the morning and evening, adapting to the geographical environment and so on.

4, conditioning diet. Traditional health care believes that dietotherapy has the functions of harmonizing yin and yang, nourishing viscera, invigorating qi and blood, and regulating emotions. The earliest medical classic Huangdi Neijing recorded the prescription of dietotherapy. After the research of later generations of health experts and medical experts, a set of dietary health principles with distinctive national characteristics and practical food conditioning methods have gradually formed, which mainly include vegetarianism, combination of vegetarian and vegetarian foods, no overeating, familiarity with eating habits, and perseverance.