What are the traditional massage methods in China?

Massage is a standardized skill for operators to stimulate the treatment site with their hands or other parts of their limbs and move the limbs of patients. There are hundreds of technologies. But the commonly used basic techniques can be roughly divided into six categories: pressing, swinging, kneading, pinching, vibrating and moving joints. 1. Pressing manipulation: Pressing manipulation is a manipulation that acts on the body through pressing. According to the needs of treatment, the pressing force is strong or weak, the pressing area is large or small, and the pressing time is long or short. Pressing manipulation can be applied to all parts of the body, among which pressing, rubbing, pointing, pressing, pinching and walking on stilts are more exciting; Pressing, covering, probing, copying and dialing have weak stimulating effects. 1. pressing method: the performer puts his fingers or palms on the body surface and gradually presses hard, which belongs to pressing method and is also called "pressing method". Pressing the fingertips, middle fingers, ring fingers or ventral surfaces of fingers with thumb or forefinger is called "finger pressing method", among which thumb pressing method is more commonly used; Pressing with the palm root, thenar or the whole palm is called "palm pressure", which has a large area of action, but the local stimulation intensity is weaker than that of finger pressure. Pressing can often be combined with other technologies, such as kneading, which is called "pressing kneading"