In ancient China, he had rich experience and wonderful works on the road of self-cultivation, which can be described as "sweating like a pig". The way to preserve one's health is nothing more than spiritual cultivation and physical maintenance. The former can be described as nourishing the heart and calming the nerves, while the latter is a variety of maintenance methods for physical activities. In these two aspects, the ancients emphasized that first of all, we should nourish our hearts and soothe our nerves, and secondly, we should use various physical exercise methods to keep fit. There is a lot of discussion in this regard, and only a few examples can be cited here. In the collection of Taoism, Yang Pian of Yan Zhizong, a Taoist collector, it is said that "pseudo-Taoism nourishes shape and true Taoism nourishes spirit", and it is clearly pointed out that nourishing spirit means mental health, which is much more important than cultivating shape means physical exercise. No matter what the purpose of Taoist belief is, this idea is quite correct.

Although Wang Anshi, a famous politician in Song Dynasty, is not an expert in health preservation, his health preservation view is very desirable. He once said, "Form is the foundation of life." Therefore, keeping in good health lies in preserving shape, supplementing shape lies in nourishing qi, nourishing qi lies in calming the heart, calming the heart lies in sincerity, and nourishing the heart lies in perfection, which is not enough for keeping in good health. "("Linchuan Collection on Rites and Music ") Although Wang Anshi failed to live a hundred years because of his participation in political struggles, bumpy political environment and other factors, he only lived 65 years old, but his exposition on health preservation contains truth. In other words, the root of life is the human body, and the purpose of regulating qi and keeping in good health is to keep fit. But the important thing is to be calm, morally sincere and reassuring. If you don't do this, you can't talk about health. Jin Shen 'ao, a famous doctor in Qing Dynasty, said in his book Miscellaneous Diseases, "Health care is precious", followed by health care, and seriously pointed out that the first step of health care is "health care" ......