The oldest recorded fitness method in China. 1974 The silk painting Guide Map unearthed from Mawangdui No.3 Han Tomb in Changsha, Hunan Province is extremely valuable information for understanding the development of Guide in Han Dynasty. In the guide map, there are 44 people doing various kinds of guidance. Each picture is an independent introduction, and there are simple words beside the picture to indicate the name. This "tour guide map" fully embodies the diversity of tour guide technology at that time. Judging from the guiding function, it is not only used for treating diseases, but also for fitness. From the form of body movements, there are vertical guidance, step guidance and sitting guidance; There are not only the instructions of bare hands, but also the instructions of using utensils, coordinating breathing movements, purely physical movements, and a large number of instructions of imitating animal gestures. Some basic movements of gymnastics today can also be seen in the map. It can also be said that this is the earliest and most complete ancient gymnastics pattern discovered so far.
2. Curing too much ordered Chao (president of the Central Hospital, equivalent to the Minister of Health) to publish the book "Etiology". This book discusses the etiology, pathogenesis and symptoms of various diseases, and is the earliest and most complete monograph on TCM pathology in the medical history of China. The book is divided into five volumes, sixty-seven doors and two thousand and thirty-nine. He is Zhang Zhongjing's most important medical work since Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber. Different from the predecessors, this book basically does not involve prescriptions, but only writes at the end of each theory that "its soup, ironing, needle and stone have different prescriptions, which are attached at the back." A brush. On the contrary, the book * * * contains 289 "health preservation" or "guiding methods" and 2 13 specific methods. It can be said that Chao is a master of medical qigong for thousands of years. It is also the earliest leader of "medical qigong" today.
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