The History of Qigong

The original qigong had no name, and later part of it was called "dance". For example, "Su Wen - different method of prescription" of "impotence, cold and heat, the treatment should be guided by stilts", and scattered in the writings of the famous writers of the past generations of meditation, sitting in oblivion, meditation, fetal breath, walking gas, serving gas, adjusting the gas, circumference of the sky, the internal alchemy, and so on, are also part of the content of qigong. As for the term "qigong", it was first mentioned in the book "Ling Jian Zi" written by Xu Xun, a Taoist priest of the Jin Dynasty, and even if this is a later work, it was written in the Sui and Tang dynasties at the latest. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the "Zhongshan Yubaiqi Jing" (中山玉柜服气经) recorded: "Qigong Miaozhuan (气功妙篇), the way of qigong is slightly the same as ......", but in terms of connotation, it is not exactly the same as the qigong that we are talking about. It was only after the establishment of the Beidaihe Qigong Sanatorium in the 1950s that it was gradually popularized.

Qigong is a practice that people have gradually summarized and formed in a variety of practices in production, life and health care. Qigong therapy is related to and different from sports therapy; it can include sports therapy, but sports therapy cannot replace qigong therapy. Physical exercise is always only one of the means of qigong to regulate the mind, and breathing exercise is also for the service of regulating the mind, and the three tones are a unified whole, with regulating the mind as the core. Internal and external practice are combined, and internal practice should be the mainstay. The qigong qi refers to "internal qi" and "true qi," which has a deeper meaning. Qigong therapy is characterized by its comprehensive nature, or at least it is a combination of psychotherapy and physical therapy. Qigong in the Jin Dynasty

China's qigong has a history of several thousand years, but the word "qigong" did not appear very early, and it was first seen in the Jin Dynasty in a book called "Ling Jian Zi" written by Xu Xun. It is believed that this book was not written by Xu Xun himself, because many of the qigong terms in the book were used only after the Song Dynasty, so the book was written not earlier than the Song Dynasty. In the (Northern and Southern Dynasties) Shi Sheng You "Hongming set" (four series of Jingming book) Hongming set volume XII: the reason with the creation of the Tao Zhushi qigong is carried forward without Xie Hui in the place.

After the Jin Dynasty, religion flourished in China. Religion made use of qigong and mystified it. Originally, qigong was the practice of practicing qi and cultivating virtue, which was very concrete and practical, but after it became religious, it pursued the cultivation of becoming a god, an immortal, and a Buddha. In this way, the scientific nature of qigong is gone. However, if we turn to the history of qigong in China, we can see that during the period of Jin, Sui, and Tang, there were many ancient writings named after qi, such as "Qixi" and "Qi Jing," etc., which were written about practicing qi and using qi. In the Qi Jing, dozens of methods of practicing and using qi were described, and there was even a method of releasing external qi, called "Bu Qi" (布气). Later religions drowned out qigong, and the term qigong disappeared.

Qigong in the Song Dynasty

After the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, many kungfu practitioners, in order to resist the invasion of foreigners, applied qigong training to martial arts and gradually formed martial arts qigong. With the rise of martial arts qigong, slowly broke the theological ideas of religion. You say that there are gods, Buddhas and ghosts, and when you practice qigong, you pray to the gods and worship the Buddhas, saying that there are blessings from the gods and Buddhas, but when you go to war, the ones who are capable of fighting will kill the ones who are incapable of fighting, so how can the gods and Buddhas not come to bless you at this time? Slowly people's faith in religion is indifferent, qigong and gradually separated from the religious inside, restarted to talk about qi and practice qi, the Song Dynasty on the gas of vomiting. With the development of martial arts qigong, wudang school, shaolin school two big gradually formed.

Qigong in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

The end of the Qing Dynasty witnessed the writings of the Wudang School and the Shaolin School's book Shaolin Boxing Secrets, which contains a special chapter called Qigong Explained, which is devoted to the exposition of qigong. In it, it is clearly stated that "There are two ways of saying qigong: one is to nourish qi and the other is to practice qi." So the word qigong was gradually called up, and after the Ming and Qing dynasties, the practice of qi was more prominent, and in the early years of the Republic of China, there were more people engaged in qigong. 1931 Wang Zhulin officially published the book "Detailed Explanation of Intentional Qigong", which was directly named after qigong. Many doctors, by practicing Taoist and Buddhist kung fu, applied it to medical treatment and called it "qigong therapy". The earliest was Dong Hao's "Special Treatment for Consumption - Qigong Therapy" in 1934, and in 1938 Fang Gongpu published "Qigong Therapy Record" and founded the "Gongpu Qigong Treatment Center".

Modern qigong

Martial arts qigong, and later became qigong therapy, but the word qigong was not widely spread. Until after the liberation, there is an old cadre called Liu Guizhen, in Hebei Province, under the consent and support of the Department of Health, will be their own practice and many years of clinical experience to be summarized, set a book "qigong therapy practice", the book in the Ministry of Health under the care of the Ministry of Health, the official publication, and later translated into a foreign language, "qigong therapy" at home and abroad on the spread of the word. Later, qigong was taken as a part of Chinese medicine, and qigong sanatoriums and qigong sanatoriums were set up, and great achievements were made in qigong therapy and qigong research. Unfortunately, the Cultural Revolution sent qigong, China's traditional culture, to the bottom of the eighteen layers of hell. Those who practiced qigong became "cow ghosts, snakes and gods".

In this way, qigong was basically "killed" and cleaned up. "After the end of the Cultural Revolution, the qigong cause underwent an unprecedented change, and the righteousness of qigong schools developed into a unique science. We all agreed that once we said qigong, we all knew that it referred to a special science, and "qigong" became a synonym for a special science about people's physical and mental health.

The Fitness Qigong Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports held a national fitness qigong management meeting in Tianjin. Representatives from the sports bureaus of 31 provinces, autonomous regions and cities, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and five cities with separate programs, as well as the relevant departments of the Ministry of Education and the State General Administration of Sports, attended the meeting.

In 2010, fitness qigong showed good development in the country, with large-scale activities taking place continuously throughout the year. The number of fitness qigong activity stations nationwide has reached more than 13,000, and the number of people practicing recommended gong methods such as Yi Jin Jing, Wu Bird Opera, Six Character Technique and Ba Duan Jin has broken through 1 million. There have been new breakthroughs in overseas promotion and exchanges, and it is expected that an international fitness qigong federation will be established in 2011.