Research On The Main Health Thoughts Of Tao Te Ching In Health Qigong

Health qigong is a treasure of Chinese traditional culture.Tao Te Ching—the book of Laozi that contains many health thoughts.Those thoughts have profound impact on Health Qigong.Studying the main ideas of Tao Te Ching and its embodiment in Health Qigong plays an important role in and promote the development of Health Qigong.This article uses the method of literature research,expert interview and logical analysis,takes the main health thoughts of Tao Te Ching and four old exercise methods of Health Qigong as the research objects,takes the Tao Te Ching as the main health literature,and combines the relevant Health Qigong literatures,summarizes the the main health thoughts in Tao Te Ching,and mainly study the main thoughts in Tao Te Ching embodied in Health Qigong.The conclusion are following:1.The book of Tao Te Ching contain a wealth of health thoughts,such as "To be virtual and quiet","To hold the energy and to be soft","To hold together the body and spirit","To be less selfishness and desire,"To follow the rules of nature" and other health thoughts reflected in the Health Qigong.These thoughts not only embody in the movement and technics of Health Qigong,but also embody in the cultral theories."To be virtual and quiet","To hold the energy and to be soft","To hold together the body and spirit" are important health methods of laozi;"To be less selfishness and desire" mainly reflects in the state of mind;"To follow the rules of nature" is the general programe.These health thoughts interrelate and influence each other.The first step of practicing Health Qigong should keep quiet,then follow the rule of softness and reach the state of softness,furthermore to keep the unity of body and spirit,the less selfishness and desire of mentality,and finally to achieve the Taoist nature.2.Health Qigong is a specific excersise method which developed under the influence of laozi's Tao Te Ching,which is from the Tao to the technic.It is one kind of technnic,to practise health qigong reverting to understand laozi's health thoughts,and the connotation of this method,which is from the technic to the Tao.Therefore,the development of Health Qigong followed the way of Tao,and then followed the way of technics;Returning to Tao to improve the technic,by the technic to explore the tao,and so on.