Qigong classification

   The modern age “the qigong” a word included the ancient times “the expiration and inspiration”, “guiding”, “to save the god”, “the static merit”, “to move the merit”, “the internal strength”, “the external work”, “to repair practices”, “sits in meditation”, “sits in meditation”, “meditates”, “sits in meditation the keeping in good health”, “to practice moral culture grows the soul”, “the breath keeping in good health” and so on, even Taijiquan and so on certain martial arts, so long as take the internal strength as the foundation, was the qigong the scope.

    The qigong divides moves the merit and the static merit two broad headings, the former also calls the external work, the latter is also called the internal strength. The external work take the internal strength as a foundation, static can be vivid extremely, so-called “in practices the vigor, outside practices the physique skin”, the vigor has been sufficient, the physique can be strong. Static merit by no means static, but is “outside static in moves”, is organism special state of motion. Just like Wang Chuanshan said: “static calmly moves, non-motionless.”Static maintains mental tranquility, as mainly exercises martial arts take the expiration and inspiration breath the method; Moves practices the shape, as mainly exercises martial arts take the movement body the method. Regardless of the static merit moves the merit, cannot leave adjusts the heart, to control one's breathing, to adjust the essential method which body these three items exercise martial arts, is also Italy defends, the breath, the posture three links. Calmly lives cloudy, moves, then lives positive, the sound of something astir concurrently practices, “three taxes” union, therefore the masculine and feminine elements is well distributed, recovers from an illness and live a long life. Just like Tao Hongjing "Grew the soul Extends Life Record" in said: “can the kinetic energy be static, therefore immortal”.

    May know by on, the body and mind exercise method which under the Chinese medicine keeping in good health theory instruction the qigong has one kind which recovers from an illness and live a long life. It with modern science's preventive medicine, mind and body medicine, sports medicine, natural medicine, gerontology as well as sports, martial arts and so on, has certain contacting. It through the self-regulative thought that the breath and the stature, adjusts the activity of internal organs, strengthens own stable mechanism, thus achieves expels sickness benefits the long-lived goal.