Basic understanding of traditional health-preserving sports in China?

1. The concept of health preservation is a self-care method based on the development law of life activities, which can take care of life, maintain the body, improve health, reduce diseases and prolong life. Also known as taking students, Daosheng. 2. The concept of traditional physical fitness. Traditional physical fitness relies on the human body's own strength to adjust and increase the functions of various parts of the human body, induce and stimulate the potential inside the human body, and play a role in preventing and treating diseases, improving intelligence and prolonging life. It belongs to the category of humanities.

Second, the content of China traditional physical fitness.

1. Qigong

Qigong is a method and theory gradually recognized and established by the working people in ancient China during their long-term life and labor and in the process of fighting against diseases and aging.

The essence of qigong exercise is to exercise the true qi, cultivate vitality, strengthen the body resistance and strengthen immunity. Qigong exercises need to be relaxed, quiet, natural and free from distractions. Medical discussions have proved that qigong exercise can buffer the brain's stress response to the outside world, dispel panic, and make people in a state of relaxed reaction, thus increasing appetite and improving the digestion and absorption function of the brain. Qigong exercise can also exert people's potential, mobilize their own positive factors, and play a role in self-restriction.

There are many schools of Qigong with rich contents. According to the three elements of qigong exercise: regulating the body, regulating the breath and regulating the heart, qigong can basically be divided into three categories: those who focus on regulating the heart and regulating the breath, whose body posture is in a relatively quiet state, and constantly strengthen their mind to limit their own strength for health care and treatment, are classified as static; It mainly focuses on body adjustment and pranayama, emphasizing the influence of body posture changes on the operation of qi-moving, and maintaining health and treating diseases through posture and breathing adjustment, which is classified as dynamic exercise (guidance); Those who use their own massage, slapping and other exercises to dredge meridians, harmonize qi and blood and improve health are classified as health care work.

2. Wushu

Wushu, in ancient China, was not only a means to train fighting skills, but also a method to enhance physical fitness. Especially in contemporary times, Wushu has become the first choice for many people to keep fit and prolong life. In China, the use of martial arts for health care has a long history, especially the slow-paced martial arts like Tai Ji Chuan, which is the first choice for health care. The all-round development of all parts of the human body during martial arts practice is a remarkable feature of martial arts, because whether it is the boxing method of kicking, hitting, throwing and holding, or the equipment of hitting, stabbing, chopping and baking, each routine contains different movements, both quick chopping and gentle scratching; Both vomiting before swallowing and turning left and right; There are both high jumps in the air and touchdowns. These rich movements have many influences on the human body, and naturally there are many aspects of tempering.

Thirdly, the function of China's traditional concept of physical fitness to modern people.

In modern society, with the development of science and technology and social changes, the guiding role of healthy people has profoundly changed human social life and changed human living habits, lifestyles and life contents. Due to the rapid development of productive forces, people's work is more tense and family life is more modern, so people need coordinated development in all aspects of body and mind. In China's traditional health care, the health care concepts such as "walking with body and mind", "having both body and mind", "balancing yin and yang" and "combining static and dynamic" all meet people's higher demand for life and health. Emphasis is placed on all-round training, external training of bones and muscles, internal training of vigor and vitality, internal and external training, and training of combining static and dynamic to promote physical health. In addition, the psychological effect on people is mainly reflected in the concepts of "ideological guidance", "peace of mind", "advocating nature" and "conforming to nature" in traditional physical health preservation, which makes people seek a harmonious way and broad spirit in social communication, thus regulating people's spirit and emotion and making people's physical and mental health develop in all aspects.