Fitness Qigong is rich in content, one-sided, complex and easy to learn, dynamic in combination and highly mobile, and is not limited by time and place. Its exercise is moderate, so it is suitable for all kinds of people, such as the elderly, middle-aged and young people. It is one of the effective exercise methods to relieve physical and mental fatigue and prevent chronic diseases, and it is also one of the traditional physical and mental health care exercises aimed at well-being.
Fitness Qigong is a traditional health-keeping exercise in Shanghai, which has been deeply influenced by China's traditional civilization from time to time in its long historical process. Its composition, content and practice methods all show the rich traditional civilization of China's classical philosophy, Chinese medicine thought, meridian theory, morality and ethics, which can be described as extensive and profound. Health qigong is rooted in the fertile soil of traditional civilization and has lasted for thousands of years in Shanghai history. Among many sports in the world today, it is a kind of sports with philosophical thinking, clear health care purpose and combination of sports and medical ethics. The development process and civilization of health qigong are mainly manifested in the following aspects:
1. China's classical philosophy is the ideological origin of health qigong. The naive idealism of China's traditional philosophy holds that Tao and Qi are the roots of the world, and the accumulation and dispersion of Qi explain the composition of life, which leads to life and death, and regards Qi as the root of human body. It is believed that the rise and fall of life is the result of qi, and the operation of human qi determines the rise and fall of life forms. Therefore, "Qi" is regarded as the actual basic point of health qigong for longevity.
2. The concept of harmony between man and nature. "Harmony between man and nature" refers to the harmony between man and nature, man and society, self-body, and body and mind. Health qigong is a human exercise and should play a role in health care. In practice, we should be calm and relaxed, let nature take its course, combine dynamically and follow the laws of nature. Fitness Qigong pays attention to stopping according to the changes of the four seasons and human physiological functions, so as to achieve the best effect of practice and complete the harmony between man and nature.
3. "Unity of knowing and doing" is the viewpoint basis and motivation for the continuous sublimation of health qigong. "Knowing is the beginning of doing, and doing is the achievement of knowing", and there is no motivation to assume that "doing without knowing". The same is true in the process of practicing martial arts. You should use your body and mind to wake up, to experience, to understand and master.
4. The methodology of "dynamic combination" constitutes the basic principle of health qigong. This means that life has its laws of motion. For a long time, for a long time. The ups and downs of health and life are changing.
5. Fitness Qigong is closely related to Chinese medicine. Fitness Qigong and TCM belong to the nature of human civilization, and they are infiltrated and integrated with each other in the same civilization, enriching, sublimating and developing together. Traditional Chinese medicine is based on the philosophy of idealism and vitality theory. Its basic characteristics are holistic view and dialectical treatment view, and the concepts of "the sun, the moon and the stars" of heaven and "the spirit of man" are put forward. It is believed that the "three treasures" constitute a complete body, and the "three treasures" are interdependent and integrated. Health qigong actually comes from the Chinese medicine thought of the motherland. Nourishing temperament internally, exercising muscles and bones externally, dredging channels and activating collaterals, and practicing both inside and outside are the health-preserving ideas and ways to prolong life in TCM theory.
6. Health Qigong is influenced by traditional civilization and pays attention to the cultivation of the human body world. The mainstream of China's traditional moral ethics is Confucian moral ethics represented by "The Way of Confucius and Mencius", which has far-reaching influence in China society. It must pay attention to people's value, and emphasize that people have an upward, kind conscience and a caring heart. As long as people can shoulder the great responsibility of "building a heart for heaven and earth, building a life for the people, connecting the past with the future and creating peace for the world", they can invent a higher civilization. Therefore, people who live between heaven and earth should have a sense of responsibility, have a positive body, and know the meaning of living, that is, "Heaven is healthy, and villains are constantly striving for self-improvement". Paying attention to people's moral life is to divide people into tangible and tangible parts: tangible is the material carrier, which means that people are natural life, and like other creatures, they have life and death. Tangibility is people's material world, that is, moral life. We should know the truth of being a man, learn to be a man, need noble physical condition and be brave in making contributions. Confucian civilization advocates living with the body and practicing ethics from time to time. China's traditional ethics pointed out people's ideals and goals, and emphasized self-improvement from time to time in moral practice to sublimate people's physical condition.
Second, respect traditional civilization, have a peaceful mind and practice health qigong persistently.
A nation's traditional civilization is the basis of national cohesion, and a country without traditional civilization has no cohesion. Respecting traditional civilization means that teachers and teachers learn and improve the level of traditional civilization with admiration, make the past serve the present, discard the false and retain the true, and absorb nutrition. After the cultivation and cultivation of traditional civilization, the mentality is shaken, the restless and solemn mentality is zero, and the mentality is peaceful. Peace of mind is the basis of doing bad things.
We should pay attention to the "shape" when practicing health qigong, that is, we should "adjust our body, heart and spirit" before each exercise. Among them, the most important thing is "adjusting the heart", that is, clearing the heart, pleasing the heart, relaxing the heart, being kind and focusing. Pure mind means that the practitioner is quiet and has no troubles; Pleasure is the basis of practicing in a happy mood; Let go of the heart is open-minded, tolerant and tolerant, which can alleviate the sadness in the heart; Kindness is a higher level of love; Concentration is the concentration of attention (the attention of health qigong has its own characteristics: it is not lost or vertical, and it is relaxed and natural). In this way, it guides the body into shape without walking. Generally speaking, "shape" is the inner form and the inner material world. The inner body, the body is round and round, which is bound to dredge the whole body; Inner physical emptiness, wavering mentality, natural breathing, and the benign effect of the mind will inevitably produce a physiological benign reaction. One day, with perseverance, the "shape" came at once, which was both complicated and convenient to practice. Complexity is happiness, and happiness is complexity. In this shape, the body is empty, life is happy, the task is complete, everyone is harmonious and life is prolonged. Why not?
Third, the rational view is the guiding ideology of practicing health qigong.
The premise of rational treatment is to respect traditional civilization. A person, assuming that he is not loyal to traditional civilization, will leave a false impression even if he does enough work on his face. But to respect the tradition, we should pay attention to the essence, carry forward the good things in the tradition, and discard the bad things instead of paying too much attention to the way.
When we inherit the tradition, we must explore its essence, combine its essence with social reality, and strive to discover the importance of traditional civilization in modern society. This is our obligation, but also our responsibility. Assuming too much formality will inevitably dilute the good role of traditional civilization, which runs counter to our original intention of advocating respect for tradition. This is like a Buddhist saying: as long as there is a Buddha in your heart, why care about becoming a monk?
Returning to the tradition and relying on the rational point of view, health qigong is undoubtedly a good way to treat human physical diseases such as self-lost in the material world, confusion and self-distrust in human pursuit, and forgetting one's responsibilities only in pursuit of utility, which is of lofty and positive significance to mankind.
In the process of modernization, due to various complicated social and historical reasons, China's traditional ethics declined. However, modernization is based on nationalization. Without the tradition of national civilization, modernization will lose its foundation. Traditional morality was once deposited in the ideological structure of our national civilization. Denying traditional morality can only lose the advantages of our national civilization. Chinese civilization emphasizes the consistency and coordination of truth, goodness and beauty, but pays more attention to goodness, so the ethical standard has become the biggest feature of Chinese civilization. The content of ethics is temporarily combined with philosophy, politics, etiquette and self-cultivation education, which is the difference between it and western civilization. As long as we understand the above, we can better carry forward the exercise effect of self-cultivation and self-cultivation of health qigong.