Why are traditional health preserving methods such as Baduanjin and Taiji popular among young people now?
I think traditional health-keeping methods such as Ba Duan Jin and Tai Chi can attract young people, mainly because young people gradually realize the importance of health-keeping and fitness. More and more fitness clubs offer Tai Ji Chuan courses, attracting many young people to participate. First, Tai Ji Chuan has a good regulating effect on emotions. Nowadays, the pressure of work and the fast pace of life make young people very tired. And Tai Ji Chuan pays attention to calmness, which is inversely proportional to the fast-paced life. Practice Tai Ji Chuan to fully relax yourself under pressure and face the next job with a better mental state. Some people may think that it is also a kind of relaxation for young people to go out to sing and eat. Second, Tai Ji Chuan's regulating effect on human motion system, which is composed of bones, osseointegration and skeletal muscle. Tai Ji Chuan's spiral movement produces reasonable physiological load, which makes bones, joints and muscles get systematic and comprehensive exercise, enhances their flexibility, coordination and strength, and makes human bones and muscles have elasticity and strength connection, thus ensuring the normal activities of joints and bones. It can also improve the structure of bone, such as thickening of bone density, thickening of bone diameter and more regular arrangement of bone trabeculae. These changes will enhance the metabolism of bone and produce good results in morphology and structure, thus improving the performance of bending, compression and torsion. It will get twice the result with half the effort to cooperate with Gong Zhuang and Gong Jing in the practice of Tai Ji Chuan. Thirdly, Tai Ji Chuan can help us understand life. Through the induction of mind and nature and the harmony of body and consciousness, we young people find a calm, peaceful and safe spiritual space in the noisy and impetuous living and working environment.