Medical, Martial, Daoist, Buddhist, Confucian and Ethnic Qigong and where the six roots come from Evidence label: Tradition only This is a history article about ways of sorting Qigong. The classifications themselves are 📜 Documented history: we can show where they are used. The traditions’ own ideas and claims, which they sort, are 🔵 Tradition…
Evidence label: Tradition only This article describes how traditional texts and modern psychiatry have written about inner practice going wrong. It reports what these sources say, with their limits. It does not diagnose anything, it is not a measure of risk, and it makes no health claims. If something feels wrong during or after practice,…
Evidence label: Documented history Evidence label: Tradition only This is a history and practice article. How the form was made, who made it and what its movements are called are documented in the web pages of China’s Health Qigong Management Center and in its official verse summary of the form. The official textbook exists in…
Evidence label: Tradition only This article describes how the word “neigong” and related practices reached English-language teaching, and what three well-known modern teachers say about their own systems. It describes their teaching from their own books and websites and from scholarly studies; it does not rank teachers or judge their practice, and it makes no…
Evidence label: Documented history Evidence label: Tradition only This is a biography and history article. The main facts of Zhang Guangde’s career are documented by Beijing Sport University and China’s Health Qigong Management Center. The story of how his method began, and the ideas behind it, come mostly from Zhang himself, his students and the…
Evidence label: Tradition only This is a history article. It rests mainly on official Chinese sources: the sport administration, its Health Qigong Management Center, the Chinese Health Qigong Association and the compilers themselves. They tell the story from the inside. Where a statement is an official account or a compiler’s own account, we say so….
How modern qigong was made in 1950s China: Liu Guizhen, neiyanggong, the Tangshan and Beidaihe sanatoriums, and what was kept, reworked and lost.
What qigong means: the modern word 气功, its roots in daoyin, the 1950s clinics, the qigong boom, China’s Health Qigong forms, and where Liu Zi Jue fits.
Daoyin, “guiding and pulling”: the Zhuangzi passage, the Mawangdui chart, the Zhangjiashan Yinshu, later manuals, and how it led to modern qigong.
What neigong means: the word 内功, its roots in daoyin and breath practice, martial “internal” arts, Daoist inner alchemy, and how it relates to qigong.