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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.
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.
A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), [1] [2] was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the ...
Iron Shirt is said to be a series of exercises using many post stances, herbs, qigong and body movements to cause the body's natural energy to reinforce its structural strength. Practitioners believe that directing energy to parts of the body can reinforce these parts of the body to take blows against them.
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.
The Song dynasty Taoist sage Chen Tuan is often credited with its origin and development. [1] He was associated with the Taoist Monastery on Mount Hua in Shaanxi Province. [2] The liuhebafa form zhu ji (築基; zhú jī) was taught in the late 1930s in Shanghai and Nanjing by Wu Yihui (1887–1958). [3]
The five animal martial arts styles supposedly originated from the Henan Shaolin Temple, which is north of the Yangtze River, even though imagery of these particular five animals as a distinct set (i.e. in the absence of other animals such as the horse or the monkey as in tai chi or xingyiquan) is either rare in Northern Shaolin martial arts ...