Tue 8 Apr 2008
A Brief History of Qigong
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Qigong has a history of more than 4,000 years. It has acquired its role as the core practice in the three major fields: Chinese medicine, martial arts and meditation. Fu Yi, a scholar of nearly 2000 years ago described Qigong as “an art that pleases the spirit, slows the aging process and prolongs life”.
Here is a link to an article written by Dr Yang, Jwing-ming on:
A Brief History of Qigong.pdf
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July 8th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Dr Yang, Jwing-ming is to be commended in many ways for his knowledge of martial practice and associated means of development. He unfortunately has used a resource or has confused popular history with the factual historical records. The earliest bonefide records are archealogical and piecemeal with large time gaps. The attachment of I-ching or of DaMo is ficticious and not useful no matter how often it is quoted. China’s separate provinces have each developed exercises without Taoism, Buddhism, or Confucionism; although there are ‘revitalistic’ periods where explanations in each of these philosophies has been used, they only confuse the pragmatic teachings. It can also be said that ‘qi-gong’ is of relatively modern usage; older names were simply as ‘huffing-puffing’ and even in earliest commentaries was ridiculed as a longevity method.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Check Scott Phillips writings on qigong over on his blog for a slightly different take:
http://northstarmartialarts.com/blog1/?p=251
http://northstarmartialarts.com/blog1/?p=250