This essay is drawn from published discussion. It cites classical Chinese books, the words of others, or academic argument, and is meant as cultural reading on the traditional cultivation of life. What it says about the body, and about what practice may do, belongs to the sources quoted or to the original speaker. It is not a medical promise or clinical advice from the people who operate this website.
Written by Hu Xiaofei on the eve of the New Year of 2020. That year he passed his sixtieth birthday.
2019
He was engaged by the Office for Veteran Cadres of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee to lecture on Daoyin and cultivating life. He was invited to the Central Party School’s program for young and middle-aged cadres to teach Health Qigong · Ba Duan Jin (Eight Pieces of Brocade) and Warm-Up Before Practice for sport and cultivating life.
When visiting China’s Mission to the EU, accompanied by Pierre, vice president of the International Health Qigong Federation and president of the Belgian Health Qigong Association, he spoke with the cultural counsellor on the spread of traditional fitness arts in Europe.
In cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he lectured for scientists and staff on Warm-Up Before Practice and Ba Duan Jin. His student Yuan Dian also led more than ten academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at Tongrentang through Yangsheng Zhuji Gong (Foundation Practice).
Engaged by the China Sport Science Society and the Jiangsu Health Commission, he trained more than one hundred medical staff in Ba Duan Jin.
Invited by the International Health Qigong Federation, he served as chief referee of the Eighth World Health Qigong Competition, and was the main instructor for Daoyin Yangsheng Gong Twelve Methods at the first International Class B Referee Training Course and an international training course.
He chaired the paper reports of the ethnic traditional sport subcommittee at the Fifteenth National Congress of Sport Science, and himself reported “Optimized Research on Abdominal Breathing.” During the first National Daoyin Yangsheng Gong Twelve Methods Competition he taught a training class of two hundred twenty people, and took part in the first Health Qigong Knowledge Contest for Cultivating Life, with a live audience of nearly three hundred thousand.
He was elected vice president of the Beijing Health Qigong Association. He supervised postdoctoral fellow Wang Nan; seven master’s students graduated. Daoyin fall-prevention health prescriptions entered the PLA General Hospital. He visited Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, and Australia, teaching for the Longfei Taijiquan Association, the British Chen Zhenglei Taijiquan Association, and others.
In the Beijing Sport University faculty fitness test he took first place in the fifty-to-fifty-nine age group.
Plans for the Next Year Written at the Time
Deeply refine Daoyin health prescriptions, and train master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral students. Continue teaching courses in this system, and plan visits to eight countries including the United States, Britain, Germany, and Belgium. Organize the Fifteenth Beijing Sport University International Daoyin Yangsheng Gong Competition, an international training course, and the first Summit Forum on the Development of Daoyin Yangsheng Gong. Geyaoxiushen Hua Jianqi, in cooperation with Zhang Guangde, was being prepared for publication; produce a national-level online course in traditional sport and cultivating life; reprint the booklet Warm-Up Before Practice for Sport and Cultivating Life and the booklet on The Qianlong Emperor’s Methods of Cultivating Life; and film teaching videos for Children’s Ba Duan Jin.
He wrote that thereafter he would attend fewer events, use time to think and to summarize, and seek cooperation with institutions at home and abroad. The invitation at the end for people to join is not taken in here.