These days, people surfing the Internet should not know who Liu Ruihong is, right?
Playing Jay Chou's "Compendium of Materia Medica" and following Liu Qihong's jumping shuttlecock exercises is probably the standard of life for all the "Liu Qihong Boys" and "Liu Qihong Girls" in recent days!
But in ancient times, there was no such thing as "cloud fitness", how did the ancients exercise?
archery
Archery is one of the ancient six arts (ritual, music, archery, imperial, book, and counting).
The archery skills of the sage Confucius himself were the crown of qilu at that time. The Book of Rites records that "Confucius shot in the garden of the face, and the viewer was like a wall", which means that the archery skills performed by Confucius at that time attracted countless fans.
Qing Anon. Part of "Qianlong Emperor's One Arrow and Two Deer Diagram"
It is now in the Palace Museum
The world only knows that Confucius read the sages, but they do not know that Confucius is also quite good at fitness sports.
According to the Chronicle of History, Confucius was "nine feet long and six inches long, and everyone is called 'long man' and different." Confucius was tall and fond of archery, and led his three thousand disciples to practice archery. Because of regular exercise, Confucius lived to the age of 73, which was definitely a high lifespan at that time.
Shouts
According to historical records, Lu You, a famous poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, lived to the age of 85. In his middle age, he worked as a staff officer in the military camp, and during his military service, he began to exercise and learn martial arts.
In his later years, Lu You still insisted on fitness, and the fitness method was long whistle.
Yuan Shengmao 《Autumn Ship Qingxiao Chart Axis》
It is now in the collection of the Shanghai Museum
The ancients had three steps to completely open the body: first, to completely open the body; second, to breathe deeply and gather breath; third, to blow out the sense of rhythm, it is best to blow according to the tone of a certain word card, one breath to blow half a word, two breaths to blow the whole word card.
When Lu You got up early in the morning, he sat in the courtyard and wrote a poem for this reason: "The moon and the stars are thin and the sky is clear, and it has not hindered Qing Xiao's bed." ”
Guidance
The working people of the mainland have long recognized the importance of sports health care and have created a set of medical sports methods that combine respiratory exercise and body movement, which is called "guidance".
"Zhuangzi" records: "Boasting of breathing, spitting out the old and the new, the bear through the bird stretch, just for the sake of life." This guide is also the good of the person who cultivates the form, and the person who examines Peng Zushou. ”
Western Han Dynasty Painting "Guide Map"
It is now in the hunan provincial museum
In the 1970s, the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, Hunan Province, unearthed a painting "Guide Map", which painted 44 figures as "guides". The Guide Map is also one of the earliest health care maps ever discovered on the mainland.
Five-fowl play
There are now shuttlecock exercises, and in ancient times there were five poultry plays.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms Hua Tuo records: "I have one technique, the play of the five birds, one tiger, two deer, three bears, four apes, and five birds." It is also used to remove diseases and benefit hoofs and feet, so as to be a guide. The body is unhappy, playing a bird's play, pleasant and sweating, because of the powder, the body is light and eager to eat. ”
In addition to treating patients, Hua Tuo, a divine physician of the Eastern Han Dynasty, based on the achievements of his predecessors, imitated the five animal forms of tigers, deer, bears, apes and birds to create a set of health care exercises, called five birds play. It can enliven all parts of the body, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening the body.
Move bricks
The ancients had thousands of ways of moving, and it was interesting to move bricks.
Tao Kan, the great-grandfather of the famous poet Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was a famous warrior in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, who was idle at home because of his unsuccessful career, and he was worried that he would waste his body because his life was too comfortable, so he created the "Brick Moving Fitness Method".
Tang Dynasty green dragon pattern bricks
It is now in the Palace Museum
Tao Kan put 100 bricks in his study, moved the bricks out of the yard every morning, and then moved them back in the evening, day after day.
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