Health Qigong includes: Eight-paragraph Brocade of Health Qigong, Six-character Formula of Health Qigong, Yijinjing Classic of Health Qigong, Five-animal Play of Health Qigong, Twelve Methods of Health Qigong Guidance, Dance of Health Qigong, Twelve-paragraph Brocade of Health Qigong, etc.
Baduan Brocade is the most widely spread and has the greatest influence on guiding development. Yu Youren, a famous calligrapher in modern China, has been practicing Baduanjin at four o'clock every afternoon, and his fitness effect is very good.
Baduanjin can be divided into sitting Baduanjin and standing Baduanjin, North Baduanjin and South Baduanjin, Wen Baduanjin and Wu Baduanjin, Shaolin Baduanjin and Taiji Baduanjin, which are deeply loved by Chinese intellectuals and practitioners.
Characteristics of health qigong:
The operating range of qigong practice is also reduced accordingly. As mentioned earlier, the operation activities of qigong practice are three tones, namely, regulating body, regulating qi and regulating heart. Therefore, many qigong techniques can be divided into three categories: regulating body, regulating qi and regulating heart, such as martial arts qigong, Buddhist qigong and Taoist qigong.
Because the purpose of fitness qigong is fitness, the closest thing to fitness in the three-tone activity is body-adjusting. Therefore, qigong skills based on body adjustment will be favored in health qigong.
From the sports point of view, among all kinds of sports activities, including physical education courses, competitive sports, physical exercise and sports entertainment, physical exercise activities can best reflect the purpose of fitness, such as doing broadcast gymnastics and playing Tai Ji Chuan. Here, health qigong found the close overlap between qigong and sports, and became a combination of the two.