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Health care atlas and its name identification map. This is the earliest existing guide map. The original silk painting is about 100 cm long, which is connected with the 40 cm silk book in the front section. This picture is 40 centimeters high. Guide Map 1974 Unearthed from No.3 Han Tomb in Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan Province, it is the earliest existing roll of meticulous colored silk painting for health care sports, which is an early work of the Western Han Dynasty. The guide map was badly damaged when it was unearthed. After regrouping, there are 44 small guide maps of the whole body, which are arranged into four layers from top to bottom, and each layer has 1 1 mini map. Hua Tuo, who invented the "Five-Animal Play", was from the Eastern Han Dynasty. Based on this, people can conclude that "guide map" and "five-animal play map" are not the same thing. So, what is the relationship between the Guide Map and Hua Tuo's Five-Animal Play?

The guide map is not only early, but also very rich in content. It makes the graphic data of various guidance and fitness exercises that have not been completely lost in ancient literature become the earliest, and provides valuable clues for studying the development and change of guidance. From this, people can see several aspects of guidance: in addition to unarmed exercises, the guidance chart also finds the use of stick movements, bending movements and holding sticks with both hands. The written explanation is to connect yin and yang with text (paste). There is also the twisting action with the ball under your feet, which is also the form of instrument action. 4. Relationship between guidance and treatment: There are 12 treatment items directly mentioned in the text description of the guide map, such as annoyance, pain, deafness, fever, etc. It can be seen that guidance is not only closely related to the treatment of knee pain in limbs, abdomen of digestive system, eyes and ears of five senses, and even some infectious diseases. The four aspects of tour guides reflected in Mawangdui's tour guide map are enough to show that China is the first country to use tour guides in the world. European scholar Ma Tinglun admitted that the West had copied China's medical gymnastics from the Far East through Ai's introduction. Dr Joseph Needham, a British scientist, also believes that modern western medical gymnastics actually evolved from early gymnastics in China to Europe. Therefore, western scholars call China the motherland of medical gymnastics.