Notes on Chinese Medicine -part 4-
Today, millions of citizens in the PRC qigong practice. In the early morning, from 6 in the morning, parks and gardens are a hive of people who, alone or with the help of a teacher, practice qigong.
By nightfall, the towns are filled with people just on their daily exercises of qigong. Each carries the rhythm that fits your body, everyone is convinced that the continued practice of qigong will bring longevity. And it must be very wrong, for China, despite being a developing country, it has a population whose life expectancy is very close to that of developed countries.
It’s called traditional Chinese boxing. Some call fight with the air because its slow movements make him look more breathing exercises a kind of battle. Taijiquan has its roots in Taoist exercises designed to facilitate the integration of the individual in the universe, thus they were intended to absorb the energy of heaven, earth, and stars. Although any other element of nature is capable of transmitting its energy to the man able to grasp. And that is precisely what this taijiquan. To develop in people the capacity to absorb the different energies of nature.
To achieve these objectives each school offers the systematization of different moves. Movements which, despite being very slow, require strong control of the body musculature, which is why what taijiquan is associated with a type of boxing. Do not forget that the wushu originated from similar exercises.
Source: www.chinaviva.com/cultura/medicina.htm
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