Five Animal Play, who was created by the famous doctor of the Three Kingdoms period

It is a set of fitness and health techniques based on movement. It is the crystallization of the ancient Chinese people's long-term exercise practice.

Hua Tuo absorbed the achievements of his predecessors and condensed them, creating the "Five Animal Play" - Tiger Play, Deer Play, Bear Play, Ape Play, and Bird Play - five kinds of bionic guiding techniques. Hua Tuo five birds play originated in Bozhou, is the great medical doctor Hua Tuo in the Eastern Han Dynasty, inherited the ancient guide health techniques, based on the Chinese medicine yin and yang, five elements, organs and images, meridians, qi and blood running laws, observation of the activities of birds and animals, with the tiger, deer, apes, bears, birds and other animals, the image of the action of a set of health and fitness gong method.

Hua Tuo created the five bird play was first recorded in the Western Jin Dynasty Chen Shou "Three Kingdoms - Hua Tuo biography", the North and South Dynasties famous doctor Tao Hongjing "Nourishing Life Record" introduces the "five bird play" of the specific action. Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties are very popular, Sun Simiao, Liu Zongyuan, Lu You and other people on the mechanism of the Five Animal Games and the practice of the time are discussed or described

. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the development was even faster and the number of monographs increased. During the Republic of China period, Hua Tuo's Five-Animal Play was mainly circulated in Xiao Huazhuang, the hometown of Hua Tuo in Bozhou, and the surrounding areas. Lu Wuju, Dong Wenhuan, Liu Shirong and other generations of transmitters of the Five-Animal Opera continued to carry it forward.

Hua Tuo Five-Animal Opera truly reflects the development of our people's fitness culture, pioneered the first sports and medical treatment to get rid of diseases, and demonstrated the deep aesthetic connotation of health philosophy and Taoist culture, which has important historical value and health care value.