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Yuchi Gong (尉遲恭) or Yuchi Rong (尉遲融) (585 – 25 December 658 [1]), courtesy name Jingde (敬德), also known by his posthumous name Duke Zhongwu of E, was a Chinese military general who lived in the early Tang dynasty. Yuchi Jingde and another general Qin Shubao are worshipped as door gods in Chinese folk religion.
Qigong deviation is a more modern term that became part of politically motivated agenda during the 1990s, when the Chinese government became concerned about loss of state control due to widespread popularity of qigong, mass practice, commercialization and rise to power of charismatic qigong "grandmasters" and fraudsters alike. [10] [28] [29]
This Chinese name sanbao originally referred to the Daoist "Three Treasures" from the Daodejing, chapter 67: "pity", "frugality", and "refusal to be 'foremost of all things under heaven'". [1] It has subsequently also been used to refer to the jing, qi, and shen and to the Buddhist Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha). This latter use is ...
The ideas of qigong were quickly embraced by alternative therapists. [36] The idea of qi as a form of living energy also found a receptive audience within the New Age movement. [37] When the Chinese qigong community started to report cases of paranormal activity, Western researchers in the field were also excited by those findings.
The Baduanjin qigong (八段錦) is one of the most common forms of Chinese qigong used as exercise. [1] Variously translated as Eight Pieces of Brocade, Eight-Section Brocade, Eight Silken Movements or Eight Silk Weaving, the name of the form generally refers to how the eight individual movements of the form characterize and impart a silken quality (like that of a piece of brocade) to the ...
Kung Fu Yoga (Chinese: 功夫瑜伽) is a 2017 Chinese action adventure comedy film written and directed by Stanley Tong and produced by and starring Jackie Chan. [4] [5] [6] It is the sequel to The Myth (2005), with Chan reprising his role as an archaeologist named Jack.
The Legend of Crazy Monk (Chinese: 活佛济公) is a Chinese television series about the life of Ji Gong. The series was directed by Lin Tianyi and based on Guo Xiaoting's classical novel Biography of Ji Gong. [1] It was a hot TV series recently in Guangdong Television, Jiangsu Television and Shenzhen Television.
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 ...