What is the Health Preserving Exercise Ba Duan Jin?

Many friends in life are doing the same thing, that is, maintaining health, but each person uses different health methods. Because everyone's physique is different, the suitable health methods will also be different. Now there is a health method called Eight Section Brocade of Health Preserving Exercise. Many friends dare not try it because they do not understand this method. So what is Eight Section Brocade of Health Preserving Exercise?

In order to allow this treasure of the motherland's Qigong culture to continue to benefit the people in modern times, the Health Qigong Management Center of the General Administration of Sport of China established a Health Qigong Research Group in 2001, taking Ba Duan Jin as a sub-project and based on the traditional Ba Duan Jin, it re-created the traditional Ba Duan Jin in accordance with the principles of eliminating the false and retaining the true, refining the coarse and discarding the fine, and bringing forth the new through the old. At the same time, researchers used modern sports and natural science knowledge to conduct scientific research and experiments on the fitness effects of Ba Duan Jin.

It is said that "Eight-Section Brocade" originated from Han Zhongli, one of the Eight Immortals, and was spread by Lu Dongbin after being carved on a stone wall. Some people also say that it was created by Yue Fei. In 1972, archaeologists unearthed the 2,100-year-old Daoyin Diagram while excavating the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha. The Daoyin Diagram is a compilation of movements from ancient Chinese Daoyin Shu, which is a type of modern Qigong. The guiding diagram of the Mawangdui Han Tomb depicts more than 40 exercise postures, among which at least four are similar to the movements in the Eight-Section Brocade that was widely circulated later. It is regarded by the academic community as having a close relationship with the Eight-Section Brocade.

The name "Ba Duan Jin" was first seen in Yi Jian Zhi, a book written by Hong Mai in the Northern Song Dynasty.

According to the Yijianzhi, in the seventh year of Zheng He, Li

Si Ju was an attendant. He imitated the Taoist's bear-jerking and bird-stretching techniques and was very happy with them. He often got up in the middle of the night, breathing and massaging to perform the so-called Eight-Section Brocade. It can be seen that Ba Duan Jin had already been popular in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, there were already two styles of Ba Duan Jin: sitting and standing. Among them, the standing Ba Duan Jin later formed many schools and was widely spread. In the late Qing Dynasty, people compiled Ba Duan Jin into a complete routine for the first time and drew pictures. Its rhyme summarizes the movements and purpose of Ba Duan Jin as follows:

Hold your hands up to the sky to regulate your triple burner, and draw your bow to the left and right like shooting an eagle.

To regulate the spleen and stomach, you must focus on it, and look forward to the five kinds of fatigue and seven kinds of injuries.

Shaking your head and tail can relieve heart heat, while holding your feet with both hands can strengthen your kidneys and waist.

Clenching fists and glaring will increase your strength, and shaking your back seven times will eliminate all diseases.

The introduction of modern life science, medicine, human morphology and other methods has endowed the creation of Health Qigong Ba Duan Jin with new rational and scientific connotations. The completion and promotion of the Health Qigong Ba Duan Jin also proves that the ancient Ba Duan Jin has not been lost in the long river of time.

On the contrary, thanks to the efforts of today's people, it shines even more brilliantly.

The above is an introduction to what the Eight Section Brocade of Health Preserving Exercise is. In fact, the Eight Section Brocade of Health Preserving Exercise is a method of exercise. The movements are relatively gentle, but they will bring great benefits to our body and have no side effects. If used well, it can also play a role in the treatment and prevention of some diseases, so you can try it.