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  2. History of qigong - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Microcosmic orbit - Wikipedia

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    Microcosmic orbit. The history of the microcosmic orbit dates back to prehistoric times in China, and the underlying principles can be found in the I Ching which according to legend was written by the Emperor Fu Xi approximately five thousand years ago or at least two centuries before the time of the Yellow Emperor.

  4. 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off - Wikipedia

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    The reason for the number of facts being 1,227, according to Lloyd and Mitchinson, was that they had originally planned to have 1,000 facts and when they wrote down the list containing all the facts that would go in the book, they discovered that they had gone past the number, to 1,227.

  5. Yangsheng (Daoism) - Wikipedia

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    Ji Kang believed that achieving immortality was possible but only for individuals possessing extraordinary qi. However, he argued that even those without exceptional qi could significantly extend their lifespan—potentially to several hundred years—by practicing longevity techniques. [36]

  6. List of numbers in Hindu scriptures - Wikipedia

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    * Number of varieties of quadrupeds: 3,000,000 [12] * Number of human species [clarification needed] 400,000 [13] [14] [15] Number of Manus who manifest in one kalpa (one day of Brahmā) fourteen Manus [16] Duration of one day of Brahmā: 1,000 chatur-yugas (4.32 billion years) Number of Manus who manifest during one month of Brahmā: 420 Manus ...

  7. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    100 Primarily denotes one hundred years, but occasionally used, especially in the context of competitive racing, to refer to something consisting of one hundred, as in a 100-mile race. Dozen: 12 A collection of twelve things or units from Old French dozaine "a dozen, a number of twelve" in various usages, from doze (12c.) [2] Baker's dozen: 13

  8. Numberblocks - Wikipedia

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    Numberblocks follows the adventures of sentient, colourful block characters in Numberland, each representing and named after a number, and made up of the equivalent number of blocks. A black floating number, called a Numberling, appears above their heads to show their value.

  9. Millennium - Wikipedia

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    Those holding that the arrival of the new millennium should be celebrated in the transition from 2000 to 2001 (i.e., December 31, 2000, to January 1, 2001) argued that the Anno Domini system of counting years began with the year 1 (there was no year 0) and therefore the first millennium was from the year 1 to the end of the year 1000, the ...