chinese culture-- The origin of martial art
The origin of martial art is "五禽戏" created by HuaTuo.Five-animal Plays is the research of Modern Medicine and Taoism Idea, and it's a QiGong.(Taoism is Chinese native-born religion)
Five-animal Plays is Dynamic health therapy. It can strengthen the body through imitating the moves and expressions of animals. And can makes people moves flexible,coordinate the balance, improve the function of joint and physical fitness.
it's good to prevent and treat hypertension,coronary heart disease,hyperlipemia
and has some effect on the recover of cancer patients.
it's good to prevent and treat hypertension,coronary heart disease,hyperlipemia
and has some effect on the recover of cancer patients.
HuaTuo's Five-animal Plays created at the end of the eastern han dynasty. it created base Chinese medicine theory through imitating
the moves and expressions.
the moves and expressions.
“禽”(qin): birds and beasts, equal to animals here.
“戏”(Xi):activities of vaudeville, means a special way of sport here.
HuaTuo is a renowned doctor at Three Kingdom era, the orginal record about "HuaTuo's Five-animal exercise" was in "Three Kingdoms"and "Book of Later Han"
The earlies record about how to train "Five-animal exercise" was " Taoism regimen " or "Extracts on Nourishing Spiritual Nature and Prolonging Bodily Life"(《养性延命录》)
They created over 100 routines because bequeathed from different teachers from generation to generation or developed base on basic principles of "Five-animal exercise" .
Five-animal exercise is one of the most wildspread and most enduring way of body-buildup, it composed by imitation of five animals(Tiger ,Deer,Bear ,monkey and bird )
according to WuPu (the student of HuaTuo) still had good ear, good eyesight and good teeth when he was 90 years old.
modern medical research shows that it no only can stretch muscles and joints, but also good to strengthen the function of lung and hear and improve the oxygen supply of cardiac muscle and increase the cardiac output.
China's Ministry of Health,Ministry of Education and National Athletic Committee made an announcement at 28/6/1982:
promote those chinese traditional method of exercise in every medical universities as one of the content of " Health Care P. E. Class"
promote those chinese traditional method of exercise in every medical universities as one of the content of " Health Care P. E. Class"
Five-animal exercise include: Tiger Exercise,Deer Exercise,Bear Exercise,monkey exercise and bird exercise with gentle movements.
Five-animal exercise had 4 moves in each exercise at begainning, and now it has 10 moves in each exercise.(and some other routines.)
