Recently, a fitness team in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, has seen a hot search for the "crocodile climbing" video. As the title suggests, this form of fitness has "more harm than good." Mr. Zhu, the head of the group, said that he had consulted an orthopedic surgeon, and the other party believed that this action was good for the treatment of lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, and there were surgeons in the team, and if it was ineffective, he would not insist on it for three years.
In fact, this animal-mimicking way of fitness is not new. It's just that for a variety of reasons, such local techniques have always been lost repeatedly.
"Crocodile Climbing" on CCTV
Qigong originator channeling
The history of qigong is quite long, and it can be traced back to the pre-Qin period
As early as the pre-Qin period, the "Zhuangzi" recorded that the health lovers at that time continued to cultivate immortals through the "Xiong Jing Niao Shen", which was a general reference to imitating birds and animals.
The Book of the Later Han Dynasty also quoted Hua Tuo's own statement: I have a technique, the play of five birds, one is called a tiger, two is a deer, three is a bear, four is an ape, and five is a bird. This is the famous five-bird opera in later generations, and it can also be known that the five-bird opera may be related to a lost skill - guiding.
Guide silk painting in the Mawangdui Han Tomb
In 1973, the No. 3 Han Tomb of Mawangdui unearthed a scroll of silk paintings full of strange human movements. Experts have confirmed that this is a long-lost channeling technique. The ancients believed that guidance can reconcile the "qi" in the body, so as to prevent diseases, maintain health and even prolong life. This does not seem scientific today, but the physical activity it brings can still have a limited fitness effect.
Similar to the local method of aerobics, it is obviously not to serve the manual laborers who are busy every day, but to serve the children of the four bodies who are not diligent. In an era of low medical care and nutrition, there will not be too many obese patients, elderly people living to their 70s, and people with damaged joints who can survive their lives. Therefore, even if the action is not done properly, the side effects are not too obvious. The question is, why did the ancient times, which were keen on cultivating immortals and live a long life, such a local fitness technique be lost?
Although qigong has the "effect" of cultivating immortals and prolonging life, it is lost from time to time
The Taoist medical school that does not enter the stream
At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Huang Lao's technique was practiced, which naturally created conditions for the development of qigong
As early as the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court pursued the art of Huang Lao, and primitive Taoist elements such as cultivating immortals, ghosts and gods, and pills were also popular, providing rich construction materials for the official birth of Taoism later. This may have something to do with the forces behind Liu's uprising. Liu Bang used the Five Elements Theory to kill the White Snake Rebellion, and the "Plain Book" inherited from Huang Shigong by the military advisor Zhang Liang also contains a lot of Taoist thought......
But the good times were short-lived, and Dong Zhongshu, with the support of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, reformed Confucianism and made it the only legitimate official ideology. The Taoists who once ate fragrant and spicy drinks lost power, and they only deserved to talk and laugh with the lower riba people.
The shape of the feather man that swept the Han Dynasty is likely to come from the Baiyue culture
After that, Zhang Daoling, who was the same township as the ancestor of the Liu family, received the apocalypse in Longhu Mountain, the hometown of Baiyue, and went to Bashu, the land of Longxing, in the Han Dynasty. In this process, the Heavenly Master Dao absorbed a lot of local barbarian cultural elements that obviously originated from Baiyue and Bashu, such as the Yuren and ghost painting talismans. The other school, Zhang Jiao's Heavenly Master Dao, may also have drawn inspiration from Baiyue culture. The Taiping Sutra, on which it is based, is thought to have been written by Yu Ji, who was active in the hometown of Baiyue.
These two schools also have a common characteristic, that is, they provide medical care to attract believers, which is not fundamentally different from the Christianity that later relied on hospitals to open up the market. In fact, the traditional doctors and Taoists before the Song Dynasty were difficult to call brothers. Han Yu's so-called "witch doctor, musician, and man who works a hundred times, and the gentleman is not ashamed" is a portrayal of this situation.
In the process of creating the Heavenly Master Dao, there is a lot of content in earth forensic medicine
According to the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", Hua Tuo was recruited by Cao Cao and lied about being sick and refused, but was finally seen through and killed. Hua Tuo was reluctant to be a doctor for Cao Cao, probably because "he is a scholar, sees his profession as a doctor, and often regrets himself", let alone being a full-time doctor. In ancient times, scholars would only become doctors if they were disappointed, and Li Shizhen, who failed to do problems in later generations, was just like that.
Zhang Zhongjing, another physician at that time, is not recorded in the official history at all. It's also because being a doctor means having a low status, and it's even worse than someone who sells his groove to a higher position. Moreover, his "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" is based on the dialectic of the six classics of yin and yang, and is obviously also influenced by Taoist doctrine, and it is difficult to say that it has nothing to do with the two schools of Taoism.
Even famous doctors like Zhang Zhongjing still have a low social status
Qigong is invincible to suppression
Taoist leaders such as Zhang Jiao were undoubtedly one of the most feared objects of secular kings
Of course, Taoism, which is accustomed to gathering crowds, has always been a hidden danger to public security. The Yuji-Zhangjiao faction in the late Han Dynasty was exterminated, and the Heavenly Master Dao was also co-opted and suppressed in the late Han Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Even the three martial arts and one sect destroyed Buddhism, Taoism, as a local religion and even occasionally cameo promoters, was not always spared, but was tragically affected during the time of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty. The long-term practice of medicine and the confusion of monasticism inevitably became the target of repression.
After the Song Dynasty, with the continuous improvement of the imperial examination system, doing questions became the only way out for cultural people. Taoism was divided up again in the private market, and even doctors abandoned Taoism and turned to Confucianism, and liked to mention Confucian bureaucratic titles such as "doctor" and "Langzhong".
From the Song Dynasty onwards, the group of doctors gradually diverged from Taoism
In the Jin Yuan period, the emerging Quanzhen Dao gradually abandoned the physical alchemy and turned to the cultivation of the spiritual inner pill, which further disconnected the medical Tao. At the same time, the warmth faction arose under the stimulation of the Jin Yuan Si family. Their Jingfang school, which is based on Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", constitutes a great change of blood for traditional doctors.
In this way, the various local health care techniques inherited by Taoism were also forced to transform. Not only will they be isolated from the children of the anointed sorghum, but they will continue to be lost and mutated in the process of being beaten, and they can only rely on the vitality of the folk weeds to continue to "regenerate".
Qigong, represented by channeling, is integrated into traditional martial arts
For example, the current "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" is a castrated version obtained by reorganizing it after it was dispersed. The Five Fowl Opera is not the original version of Hua Tuo, but the same work of the Ming and Qing dynasties. As for the feng shui scripture of the late Qin and early Han dynasties, the "Green Capsule Sutra" was completely lost and there was no evidence.
To this day, the guide technique is reborn in Suzhou, the hometown of Baiyue, where crocodiles are worshipped, in the form of crocodile crawling. Combined with this tortuous history, it is inevitably mixed......
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