Text/Huang Changfu generally believes that if you want to be healthy, you must do more exercise. The movement here, of course, refers to people's external physical movement. Is that really the case? From the perspective of health care, its main body is biased towards the wrong. Many people may not believe it and object, because the country advocates sports, because as the saying goes, "running water does not rot, relatives do not rot." "God's creation is always moving, and people are always moving in this life." (Zhu Yuanzhenheng's Theory of Gezhi Language "Life lies in movement" (Voltaire). Do athletes live long? Although athletes are physically strong, they exercise a lot of muscles and bones, which will inevitably lead to premature aging of cells and early physical fitness. Many people will lose their health as soon as they retire. On the whole, the average life expectancy of athletes is lower than normal. Why is the average life expectancy of women in China (74 years) longer than that of men (7 1 year)? One of the important reasons is that most women in China are comfortable in their families and conform to their lifestyles: relatively speaking, one is to do more housework, which is characterized by exercise, but the labor intensity is small, stretching muscles and strengthening bones; Second, there is more stability in thought, and the spirit is not as turbulent as "men are outside the home"; Third, show more love and peace, serve relatives, husbands and godchildren, and don't expect too much from life. There are inherent reasons for the longevity of China painters. Learning books and painting, regulating breath and nourishing qi, pleasing emotions, refining qi and calming nerves, external exercises for health, internal exercises for heart-nourishing, dynamic and static adaptation, smooth qi and blood, and nourishing body and mind just meet the needs of all beings. Of course, physical movement is necessary and necessary, what's more, life is a state and process of movement. However, according to modern scientific research, the impact of exercise on health is mainly to speed up blood circulation, which can make some occluded meridians unblocked, especially for pericardium. The unobstructed pericardium meridian can enhance the ability of the heart, enhance the immune function of the human body, accelerate the metabolism of the human body, and accelerate the elimination of human waste. But it does not increase the blood gas energy of human body. Therefore, physical exercise is purposeful and moderate, and can only be carried out in the sense of ensuring the relaxation of human bones and muscles and guiding the smooth operation of qi and blood in the body. By combining with rest, it can replenish qi and regulate breath, harmonize viscera, dredge meridians, coordinate and balance, nourish body and mind, and achieve the purpose of maintaining life. Therefore, the most suitable exercise should be soothing rather than intense Tai Chi, Qigong, gymnastics and fitness dance. For example, Ba Duanjin's "Holding the Three Jiao of Heaven in his hand, the left bow and the right bow are like shooting a sculpture, raising his hand to regulate the spleen and stomach, looking back after five pains and seven injuries, shaking his head and wagging his tail to get rid of the heart fire, removing the diseases behind him, raising his fist and glaring to increase his strength, and climbing his kidneys and waist with both hands". Compared with western boxing, Tai Ji Chuan and Qigong are not only a kind of muscle and bone movement, but also a kind of psychological movement, emotional movement and spiritual movement, which is a coordinated guiding movement of sensibility and rationality. Exercise beyond the guiding significance is bound to be tiring, dragging down the body and dissipating the spirit, which is not conducive to life. Health preservation does not advocate the stimulation of extreme sports. As a living body, human beings have spirit and spirit besides body and limbs, which is the unity of form and spirit (otherwise it is body, not life). "Form depends on God, and God must exist in form", "cultivate nature and protect God, and feel at ease all over". Proper physical exercise can guide and nourish the qi and blood of the body and keep the whole body awake; Excessive exercise damages people's mind, consumes energy and harms life. Therefore, nourishing essence, qi and spirit is the main body and key to preserve health and prolong life. "Life is indifferent to the heart", and the most important thing in health care is to cultivate the heart. Excessive emotions are bound to endanger life. "People who often look at the world, those who are kind live long, those who are good in quality live long, those who are large in quantity live long, and those who are brief live long. Gai Si, the end of benevolence is also, so the benevolent is born. " Benevolence is to be gentle, kind, generous and humorous. Benevolence and virtue are the intrinsic elements of a person's health. People should be pure and quiet, with few selfish desires. "Nothing is indifferent, the true qi follows, the spirit is hidden inside, and the disease is always safe." "There are real people in ancient times, God helps heaven and earth, grasps Yin and Yang, breathes the essence, and keeps god independently. If muscles are integrated, they can live a long life in heaven and underground. When there is no end, this is their way of life. ..... "("Su Wen, the first chapter of ancient innocence "). Here is a question of Chinese and western philosophy of life. Westerners only see tangible things, without intangible concepts such as spirit and qi, so they only talk about sports, diet and medicine in their life, not mental health. China people not only pay attention to physical health, such as exercise, diet, qigong, sexual intercourse and drugs, but also pay attention to mental health and even a higher level of philosophical health. In the primitive thinking of westerners, the world is regarded as a static thing, and movement is the movement of still life, which is the activity and sublimation of still life. Therefore, western medicine treats people as objects and dissects people's lives like mechanical objects, which are inseparable and powerful. On the other hand, China people are different. The world in their primitive thinking is a living body with the nature of movement. Yin-yang and five elements, spring, summer, autumn and winter, are all moving and changing: Qi, potential, ambition and thoughts are even more changeable. The human body can be still, but its inner spirit and spirit are unpredictable. Man, as the spirit of all things, is favored by Qi God. Compared with Chinese and western thinking concepts, China people regard heaven and earth, time and space as an organic whole, regard nature and human beings as living beings, and advocate the unity of heaven and man, which is obviously more in line with their way of life. Sports health care and physical health care such as diet and drugs only pay attention to the external body, which is of course inferior to the psychological health care that pays attention to the inner mind, not to mention the philosophical health care that goes deep into the "bone marrow" of human life. It can be seen that mental health care is more reliable than physical health care, and static health care is more reliable than dynamic health care. Exercise exercises the body and calms the spirit. Looking around, from the macroscopic time and space, human life is short and small, but the universe that accommodates it is eternal, vast and endless. Although life cannot be born, it is hard to stop it. The body is limited, and it is a blink of an eye to put it in the infinite universe. If you can't nourish your own spirit, or absorb the essence of heaven and earth to be used by others, how can you coexist with your whole life, but with your fragile body, exercise hard, spread your spirit, pay for infinity with limited, and live in the sea with smallness? "People are so living, God also; The people entrusted by God are also in shape. " "God's great use will be exhausted, and if he is exhausted, he will die" ("Tao Jinhong's record of nourishing and prolonging life"). Life mainly depends on benefiting qi, storing essence, concentrating, harmony with heaven, suitable place and yin and yang. Neutralization will lead to a long life. On this premise, we should consider how to rest and exercise, as well as philosophical health preservation. In terms of exercise and health preservation, the principle is to serve the smooth flow of qi and blood according to the needs of the soul. "Zhongjing" said: quiet people live long, impatient people die. Quiet can not support life, but can support life. "Yan Junping also said," Wandering in silence, concentrating on subtlety, worrying about no desire, and referring to inaction can prolong life, which is as long as the Tao "("Tao Jinhongjing's record of keeping fit and prolonging life "). As the saying goes, take a breath inside and exercise outside. Qi is more the existence of life. Therefore, it is necessary to properly exercise the external body to ensure the relaxation of human bones and muscles and guide the smooth flow of qi and blood in the body. More importantly, it is necessary to cultivate one's mind and cultivate one's nature, be still and motionless, be still and motionless, so as to nourish essence, nourish qi, and restore energy, and be Xiu De and calm and motionless.