Traditional Wushu practice

"Qi" in Wushu is borrowed from the theory of traditional Chinese medicine. In traditional Chinese medicine, it refers to the most basic elements that constitute the human body and maintain life activities, and also has the meaning of physiological function.

"Yuan Qi" is an ancient philosophical concept of China, which refers to the basic elements that produce and constitute everything in the world. Yuan, through "original" and "beginning" ("Shuo Wen"), refers to the origin of everything in the world. In the history of China's ancient philosophy, the theory of vitality is a kind of world outlook for people to know nature, which can be traced back to Lao Zi's Tao, basically formed in Song Shuo and Yin Wen's Theory of Mind and Nature in the Warring States Period, and developed Wang Chong's Theory of Vitality Nature at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Noumenon of Vitality advocated by Zhang Zai in the Northern Song Dynasty. The theory of primordial qi takes primordial qi as the basic element of the world, and explains the emergence, development, change and extinction of everything in the universe with the movement and change of primordial qi.

Qi is not a concrete substance, so it is different from "simple materialism" in western philosophy.

The theory of gasification occupies a very important position in the history of ancient philosophy in China, and has a far-reaching impact on the development of natural science. As a view of nature, the theory of vitality is a general understanding of the whole world. Therefore, the original energy theory explains the formation of all things and various natural phenomena, which is different from western materialism and idealism. Is China's unique worldview.