Glossary
Daoyin 導引
"Guiding and pulling". The classical movement-and-stretching tradition ancestral to modern qigong, depicted on a chart of forty-four exercises recovered from the Mawangdui tombs, sealed 168 BCE.
Where this term appears
- ArticleQi Gong, and What It Shares with Mo Pai
- ArticleThe Ground
- GlossaryQigong
- BookChinese Healing Exercises: The Tradition of Daoyin
- BookDaoist Body Cultivation: Traditional Models and Contemporary Practices
- BookEarly Chinese Medical Literature: The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts
- BackgroundThe Mawangdui Daoyin Chart
- BackgroundThe Eight Brocades
- Timeline168 BCE — The Mawangdui daoyin chart
- Timeline1117 CE — The Eight Brocades are named