Qigong and traditional culture (one)

HuangJian Shanghai university of traditional Chinese medicine

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        Chinese traditional culture is the soul of qigong with root, whether in qigong theory, practice, or in its operating essentials, everywhere smell the fragrance of traditional culture, traditional philosophy transit people corresponding the overall concept of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the comprehensive control keep fit view, the confucianist theory of harmony of the doctrine of the mean view... For all the house of qigong for reference, and its reasonable fusion guidance practice practice and application.

        Natural rule

        That is the method of qigong from nature. Heaven corresponding is one of the essentials of traditional Chinese philosophy, the key points are the universe, human one of the heaven and earth and all things have the same generation primitive. As a result of "heaven and earth and the dense, everything into", "qi yue, lives," so, "man and heaven and earth and the corresponding". That is to say, the nature of the climate, geographical environment, etc., will produce the corresponding influence on human, this kind of effects include good health and harmful to health two different aspects. Therefore, the theory of xunzi · day "warned:" nature is the true law, not nature is the true law. The therapeutic principle should be with auspicious, should with disorderly is fierce." The qigong home follow these ancient precept, will the day (make full use of all natural healthy factors), avoiding evil spirits (as far as possible to avoid the nature harmful to health factors) as qigong skills and qigong activities of the basic principles. Specific embodied in the following three aspects.

        1. The timing acrobatics

        Namely in the different season, different hour choose different skills, and "day" to phase. Due to the different season to human body produce different effect, so the choice of method in qigong, the traditional qigong claims follow "action to hibernate, Yin and in summer" principle, that is, in the heat of the summer season, choose practice static work to calm the nerves, calming, eliminate the hotness of be agitated, Winter, choose moving work with exciting sun be the spirit, resist cold haemorrheological nature. Dynamic work such as 24 gas guided by work potential (" born at eight depicting "), to 24 massage guidance action to deal with the 24 solar terms, and applied to the human body corresponding viscera respectively. Static work such as six tactic of four seasons words method is also so, think spring practice hiss word can be bright eye, summer practice ah word in addition to internal heat, autumn practice 呬 word can runfei, winter practice blow word can zi kidney, the four seasons often practice called word can help change the spleen and stomach transport. 12 hour day and night the growth of Yin and Yang, also can affect the body's physiological function, therefore, qigong exercise on hour also to have certain requirements, some of the special operation method, emphasize on the prescribed time. Such as "convinced the" said: "whoever convinced all take Yang." "Hold tastes · release hysteresis" based on static work do gas should be in the son to noon when six Yang, and after noon six Yin, the unfavorable acrobatics: "line gas as angry, not to the dead also... a day night have twelve, he from the midnight and 6 for angry, from Japan to midnight for 6 dead. Dead, do not gas also." "Element asked · thorn method theory", in addition to hour requirements outside, also requires cooperation orientation: "kidney is the long illness, can YinShi facing south, the static god not disorderly thoughts while not seven times..." As for moving work exercise, most qigong home also advocate in the male. If you have put forward in "clear denier not up" or "daily at the beginning" dynamic work practice, thus the in vitro by Yang help the body of the male. For the requirements of the ZhouTianGong hour more strict, shown as a is to emphasize son acrobatics; The second is according to the different time and temperature control, namely son began to high heat into fire help Yang interest, noon began to slow fire annealing help Yin away, which MaoShi don't continue into the fire, YinShi don't continue to annealing, and are maintained for the duration of the state (called bath). The whole process of the skills, refining, adjustable medicine, medicine production, CaiYao, refined medicine, also have a certain amount of time requirements.

        2. Pay attention to taboo

        That is to avoid the acrobatics from outside all kinds of bad factors. Because of the four seasons of the bad gas on, the four seasons of acrobatics note each are not identical. Miu unearthed han "but valley food gas article" a "spring food a turbidity Yang", "summer food to a ShangFeng", "winter food a ling Yin" feed gas taboo. At the same time unearthed the health party · ten asked "have similar remind:" feed gas have avoid: spring avoid turbidity Yang, avoid ShangFeng summer, autumn, winter frost avoid avoid ling Yin." And we are currently proposed acrobatics taboo is identical. Because of the failure and human viscera fan also have seasonal difference, acrobatics also should be considered. Therefore, the repair age message "to reducing real good mantra tactic exercise, puts forward the four seasons taboo:" spring don't cry, don't 呬 summer, autumn don't hiss, winter not ah." Because of the spring temper failure, echo spleen, so not shout; Summer lung qi deficiency, 呬 should lung, so not 呬; Autumn lung the prosperous, JinKeMu, SHHH, therefore, should be liver not virtual. It is through the acrobatics taboo to avoid the typical example of zang-fu organs damage. 12 hour day and night is not suitable for some practice, should be note. Ge hong advocated in the son to noon when six Yang skill, and against the other 6 hour (Yin), acrobatics in GeShi opinion, six Yin is "dead", unfavorable acrobatics. About contemporary health discuss zhang zhan house also had a similar, this article points out: "from Japan to after midnight for dead." Also he is "often angry with the" deep breathing air line. However, there are also qigong home that "the winter cold, summer months when fear fear of noon too hot", also should delimit the proscribed, and change with Yin (or unitary) acrobatics, this may be mastering the skill of the representative.

        3. Bionic acrobatics

        Bionic, imitative nature certain animal activity characteristics, characteristics, and as a qigong to regulate the body posture, action. Hua tuo famous doctors of the five animals exercise is a kind of typical bionics moving work, this achievement method imitating tiger, deer, bear, ape and bird five kind of animal movement characteristics, the function "... in addition to disease, and the shoe foot ". Hua tuo students WuPu insist to take exercise "more than ninety years, fresh and smart, finish strong teeth," proved its actual effect. The specific operation in the beginning of the northern and southern dynasties tao hongjing... "raises a gender life-sustaining record", since then, the Ming dynasty "red chicken marrow of qing dynasty, the WanShouXian book also has introduced at the beginning of this century, the state general administration of sport will it as health qigong skills introduced and name health qigong five animals exercise. After several changes, all kinds of different operation methods, the cultivation life-sustaining record "to copy is given priority to, the difficulty of the skills and physical activity are very big, and beyond the ordinary people of; Ming and qing dynasties method of the same name, reduced the copying requirements, carry momentum and difficulty also decreases, adapt to the crowd is greatly increasing; Health qigong five animals exercise, the imitation god is given priority to, emphasize imitate the tiger feels, deer's health, bear composed, the ape dexterity, birds of the balloon, under this premise to form and the unity of god. However, the natural rule guiding ideology always does not change that man and beast is a member of the nature, the animals all kinds of action is to adapt to all kinds of environment in nature in the process of gradually formed, people selectively imitate their action, can play a more ideal fitness effect.