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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 ...
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 "Five Animal play" (五禽戲, Wuqinxi) are a set of qigong exercises developed during the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD). Some claim the author of this qigong sequence to be Hua Tuo , however Yang Jwing-Ming suggests it was the Taoist Master Jiun Chiam and Huatuo merely perfected its application and passed it onto gifted disciples ...
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 ...
The Eight Immortals have been linked to the initial development of qigong exercises such as the Eight Piece Brocade. [10] There are also some Chinese martial arts styles named after them, which use fighting techniques that are attributed to the characteristics of each immortal. [ 11 ]
Chee Soo's tai chi classes invariably included Qigong or energy cultivation, and Daoyin or breathing exercises. [12] The Lee style qigong exercises are called K'ai Men (开门) or 'Open Door'. Chee Soo wrote a book in 1983 under the title Chinese Yoga (later re-titled "Taoist Yoga"), which was devoted entirely to this aspect of the Arts. [13]
Simply saying baduanjin would IMO be too confusing, and so qigong is the best way of disambiguating the practice. See the list below for a breakdown of Google hits on all the common translations. Van Tucky Talk 01:20, 20 September 2007 (UTC) bajuanin - 20,600; Eight Pieces of Brocade - 10,400; Eight Section Brocade - 670; Eight Silken Movements ...
8 - Yang Standardized; 8 - Chen Standardized; 9 - Chen Old Frame (Master Liu Yong) 10 - Yang Introductory Form (also often called 8-step) 11 - Chen created by Liming Yue after many years of study with Chen Zhenglei and Kongjie Gou; 12 - Chen(Based on the movements from Feng Zhiqiang's Chen Style Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan system. Taught by the SF ...