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The term qigong as currently used was promoted in the late 1940s through the 1950s to refer to a broad range of Chinese self-cultivation exercises, and to emphasize health and scientific approaches, while de-emphasizing spiritual practices, mysticism, and elite lineages. [8] [9] [10]
The Chinese Health Qigong Association was established in 2000 to regulate public qigong practice, restricting the number of people that could gather at a time, requiring state approved training and certification of instructors, limiting practice to four standardized forms of daoyin from the classical medical tradition, and encouraging other ...
TU Ren-Shun; "Effect of Practicing Health Qigong-Liu Zi Jue on Brain Electrical Power Spectra for Old and Middle-aged People"; Xiyuan Hospital of China, Academy of T.C.M. (Beijing 100091) YU Ping, ZHU Ying-Qi, SHEN Zhong-Yuan; "The Experimental Research of the Effect of Health Qigong-Liu Zi Jue Exercise on the Human Lung Function"; Shanghai ...
The Chinese term Qìgōng rè (气功热), referred to in English as "the qigong boom" or "qigong fever", was a social phenomenon in which mass practice of qigong became extraordinarily popular in the People's Republic of China during the 1980s and 1990s, with more than 2,000 qigong organizations and between 60 and 200 million practitioners.
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Pingshuai is simple. It has health-giving properties. Daily Pingshuai is claimed to enhance immune system, improves balance, makes joints and muscles more flexible, fortifies muscles, joints and bones, enhances blood and Qi circulation, replenishes energy, relaxes, calms and clears the mind, and sharpens senses.
Zhang was born in 1932 in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, China. He was educated at the Beijing Sport University, where he retired as a professor. In 1974, he was diagnosed of tuberculosis and an allergic condition that could not be medically treated. He began to study Chinese traditional medicine, with a focus on the Daoyin method. He ...
The political role in "qigong fever" is covered in those second and third chapters. The fourth chapter shows the technological dimension of "qigong fever". The fifth describes how qigong, during the "qigong fever" period, incorporated elements of Chinese culture. [3] The fifth chapter includes information on Yan Xin, Zhang Hongbao, and Zhang ...