Health Lecture Hall： Baduanjin is the first choice for health care, and every move is a blind medicine.
Original Xin Chen Journal of Marriage and Family.
Author: Xin Chen Editor: He Xinyang
Produced by: Journal of Marriage and Family
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In the No.16 courtyard of Beixinqiao in Beijing, behind the swaying bamboo leaves is the mottled shadow of the sun. In front of the window of the north house, a young little man is standing on a pile. This is me more than 40 years ago, smiling and imitating my grandfather’s practice.
My grandfather is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine surgery and ophthalmology, and also a veteran martial arts lover. He learned a bagua knife and bagua palm from Sun Guangdi, a descendant of Bagua Palm.
One day when I returned to my hometown when I was young, I got up early for a walk and was asked by my grandfather if I wanted to practice something. At that time, I ignored the old man’s intentions and was lazy and laughed it off. Who would have thought that I missed the good relationship of practicing martial arts? Later, I followed the famous Tai Ji Chuan Guan Yongnian to practice Xingyiquan for several years, and gradually entered the healthy jungle, only to know how important guidance and breathing are to the balance of the body.
Also known as the "martial arts", unlike the martial arts novels, which can dominate the martial arts and live forever, Baduanjin is a complete set of guiding highlights and a famous health care method in China. "Eight" can be understood as "Eight Diagrams", which means that the achievement method contains the meaning of China’s ancient philosophy. And "brocade" is because the practicing movements of this method make people feel as soft and beautiful as silk brocade.
According to legend, Baduanjin originated in the Han Dynasty, and a guide map dating back more than 1200 years was found in the tombs of the Western Han Dynasty, in which five movements were very similar to those of the vertical Baduanjin in later generations. The word "Baduanjin" first appeared in the Biography of Immortals by Ge Hong, a Taoist scholar in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, Baduanjin gradually formed a systematic achievement method, which was spread and developed. The vigorous development of printing in Ming and Qing dynasties provided a material basis for the dissemination of achievement works, and Baduanjin was widely spread.
After the founding of New China, the Party and the government attached great importance to the development of national traditional sports. In 1957, Ba Duan Jin was compiled and published by Tang Hao and Ma Fengge, which provided a good theoretical basis for the public to learn Ba Duan Jin. Since then, the number of people practicing Baduanjin has increased year by year. In the past two years, children born after 1990s and 00 have become more and more interested in Chinese medicine and traditional culture. After the practice video of Ba Duan Jin I shot was posted on the Internet, there were also many comments and praises from young people.
Ba Duan Jin, as its name implies, is divided into eight sections. I won’t go into details about the specific actions here. If you are interested, you can search online for teaching video exercises. According to the practice posture, Baduanjin can be divided into vertical and sitting styles.
Sitting Baduan Brocade focuses on resting the mind, mainly combining breathing and self-massage, focusing on resting, with moderate intensity and small range of movements, and leaning towards body movements above the waist; Vertical Baduanjin refers to the limb movement which is mainly guided by movements, and it "shakes the bones and muscles and moves the limbs", with a large range of movements, which is conducive to the coordinated movement of the whole body.
Practicing Baduanjin can regulate immune function and improve antioxidant capacity. Baduanjin can also improve vascular endothelial function. Medical experiments have proved that after practicing Baduanjin for 24 weeks, patients with essential hypertension can effectively reduce systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure, and at the same time, the levels of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and nitric oxide (NO) are significantly increased.
The effects of each section of Baduanjin are also different. Some can calm the mind, adjust breathing and straighten the body shape, some can smooth the heart and lungs, spleen and stomach, liver and kidney, some can promote blood circulation in the lungs and strengthen the heart, some can affect the abdominal cavity and massage the spleen and stomach, and some can promote blood dredging in the whole body, which is very helpful for relieving fatigue and restoring energy.
Baduanjin is a treasure of Chinese history and culture. Under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine theories such as Yin and Yang, meridians and viscera, Baduanjin has played an important role in disease elimination, health care and rehabilitation treatment.
Of course, some people judge the rationality and necessity of China’s guiding and breathing technique from the perspective of so-called "western science". In my opinion, many times, the mystery of Chinese medicine lies in its ease of use and effectiveness, but we don’t need to use scientific parameters and standards to carefully study what is behind it.
We prefer to be "ignorant" and believe that its efficacy is the best gift left by our ancestors for thousands of years.
This article is taken from the magazine Marriage and Family.
The original title is "Every trick is a blind medicine, and Ba Duan Jin is the first choice for health care"
Xin Chen, president of Beijing Yi ‘an Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was born in three generations of famous Chinese medicine families, the grandson of Beijing famous Chen Shi ‘an, the son of Chen Wenbo, a famous old Chinese medicine doctor, and the founder of the public health platform "I Raise You".
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Original title: "Health Lecture Hall: Baduanjin is the first choice for health care, and every move is a medicine."
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