Chinese Culture: Common Therapies of TCM (中医疗法)
g. Qigong (气功 Qìgōng)
Qigong is an old Chinese exercise with body movement, breathe and consciousness adjusting. Four thousands of years in China it has been being treated as a way of body building, preventing and curing diseases, and potential developing. Containing a wide range of classes, Qigong can be split into two types: dynamic exercise and static exercise.
Usually, dynamic exercise indwells in Chinese martial arts, which is commonly known as Kungfu or Wushu; while static exercise stresses on sitting in meditation without tense muscle - the introduction of Tai Chi (taijiquan, a kind of traditional Chinese shadow boxing) and Ving Tsun (yongchunquan, a kind of traditional Chinese Kungfu originating from south China) is of this type.