How did people in ancient China exercise?

In ancient times, most people paid less attention to muscle exercise and paid more attention to health preservation. Practitioners who pursue strength are divided into two categories, one is the pursuit of muscle strength, and the other is the pursuit of muscle strength.

The ancient ideas of Confucianism and Taoism make most people prefer fitness to sports in the modern sense. There are many ways to preserve one's health in ancient times, such as Wuqinxi, Baduanjin, deep breathing and meditation. Although there are many horse riding, archery, sumo wrestling and cuju, most people prefer "quietness" to "movement".

In the traditional way of pursuing strength in China, few people only pursue muscle strength, and they are considered inferior. This is because China has a special skill that other countries don't have-China Wushu.

There is a saying in martial arts: it is better to practice muscle thickness by one inch than to practice meat thickness by three points. If you don't practice boxing, you will get nothing.

Although there are muscle exercises such as stone locks and stone shoulders, most of them are linked to internal strength, and they are mainly internal strength.

Handed down from now on, we can also see from the photos of our predecessors in the past that there are no strong men with strong muscles and big waists, and most of them are ordinary or even thin.

And the way they practice martial arts, each has its own strengths and a hundred flowers blossom.

Like Ye Wen, Ye Wen, including our general Xu, they are not people who pursue pure muscle strength, but they can easily defeat those so-called "Hercules". In their eyes, systematic and diverse Wushu is the best way to exercise.

We all know that "being poor is rich in martial arts", that is to say, if you want to learn martial arts and exercise, you must have rich living conditions, because only with good conditions can you get enough food sources after consuming a lot of physical strength. In ancient China, farming has always been the mainstay, so it's good to have enough to eat. How many people can keep exercising and practicing martial arts? And we also know that in ancient times, they only ate two meals a day and had to do a lot of farm work, so they had no leisure to exercise.