It is said that Wuqinxi was invented by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in Han Dynasty, but some people think that Hua Tuo was the organizer of Wuqinxi, and there were many similar fitness methods before Han Dynasty. The earliest record of "Wuqinxi" is Tao Hongjing's Record of Keeping Healthy and Prolonging Life in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Wuqinxi, Liu Chuan's.

Liu's "A New Exploration of hua tuo wuqinxi from Ancient Books" has not only a freehand routine, but also an instrument routine-the Five Birds Playing Sword. Among them, hua tuo wuqinxi has 40 moves with his bare hands (8 styles per play); Hua Tuo's Sword of Five-Animal Play was created by Liu on the basis of traditional Five-Animal Play, combined with his own personal experience in practicing Five-Animal Play, digging deep into the historical materials of Five-Animal Play, collecting the essence of skills extensively, and after continuous research and revision. ***44 style (tiger play 8 style, deer play 8 style, bear play 8 style, ape play 10 style, bird play 10 style).

Liu emphasized that "Wuqinxi also belongs to the category of martial arts", and in the routine exercise, "the movements are all round" and "some postures seem to be out of round, but the meaning and spirit should be operated according to the requirements of round".

Dong and Liu studied under Tan Jilin, a famous martial arts teacher in Bozhou, Anhui. However, in addition to the above differences, there are also some specific technical differences between the two. For example, Liu's deer show gesture is that the index finger and ring finger are bent, while Dong's deer show gesture is that the middle finger and ring finger are bent.

Extended data

In 200 1 year, after the establishment of the Fitness Qigong Management Center of the State Sports General Administration, Shanghai Institute of Physical Education was entrusted to quickly carry out the excavation, arrangement and research of Wuqinxi. And compiled and published "Fitness Qigong Wuqinxi", which was published by People's Sports Publishing House in 2003.

The movements of "Fitness Qigong Wuqinxi" are arranged according to the order of tigers, deer, bears, apes and birds in the annals of the Three Kingdoms, and the number of movements is recorded in Tao Hongjing's Health Record. There are two movements and ten * * * in each play, which imitate the fierceness of the tiger, the calmness of the deer, the dexterity of the monkey and the lightness of the bird, and strive to be subtle.

In 2006, hua tuo wuqinxi was approved as a provincial intangible cultural heritage project by the people's government, and 20 1 1 was named as the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects by the State Council.