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.
This piece was written on the eve of the New Year of 2022; the date is 31 December 2021. The title was once “New Year Greetings for 2022”; what it records is this year after retirement.
Academy and Lecture Hall
In February the team founded “Hu Xiaofei International Daoyin Health Academy,” and successively opened four branches: the European English-speaking zone, the Russian-speaking zone, the French zone, and the Japanese zone. Nearly four hundred people from more than ten countries—Russia, Britain, Japan, France, Germany, Spain, Singapore, Canada, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and others—enrolled. The original writes eighteen courses for the year, more than two thousand person-times of class. The overseas duan and teacher system finished its first term: two hundred four received fourth duan, three received seventh duan, and an estimated one hundred two received intern-teacher credentials. The first cohort of more than two hundred trainees graduated.
Domestically, “Yao Yi Lecture Hall” opened five paid advanced courses: soothing the liver in spring, aligning the spine and shaping the form, extending the years, fortifying the spleen through the four seasons, firming the kidneys in winter. There were also eight public lectures, one hour and one topic each. Invited by the Chinese Health Qigong Association and the International Health Qigong Federation, he gave three talks on “Health Qigong and the Wisdom of Cultivating Life”: integrating practice and cultivation, the wisdom of cultivating life, and seeking the Way through practice. The original writes total views of about five hundred thousand person-times.
Formula for Reducing Blood Pressure and Children’s Ba Duan Jin
He completed the project “Health Qigong Formula for Reducing Blood Pressure” for the Health Qigong Center of the General Administration of Sport of China. The original says it mainly applies Health Qigong intervention to primary mild and moderate hypertension in middle-aged and older people. A performance video was posted on the website and WeChat account of the Chinese Health Qigong Association. Xuexi Qiangguo, People’s Daily Online, China News Service, Xinhua, and others carried it; readership on the Xinhua client approached 1.6 million.
Tianjin: fifty-seven primary and secondary physical-education teachers and fifteen children took part in Children’s Ba Duan Jin training. Liucun Township, Changping: a public lecture on Yangsheng Zhuji Gong (Foundation Practice). Haidian Taijiquan Association: a public lecture on Strengthening the Body and Assisting the Lungs Fitness Method. Xinhua Taijiquan Association: a lecture on Strengthening Body and Health Ba Duan Jin.
Dispatched by the Youth Sport Department of the General Administration of Sport of China, Children’s Ba Duan Jin entered primary schools in Qianxinan Prefecture. CCTV, China Sports Daily, and Guizhou Television reported on it. It also became training content for interns of the China Wushu Academy of Beijing Sport University; more than one hundred twenty third-year students learned technique and theory. That year a traditional-character edition and an English edition came out, and a publishing agreement for a Russian edition was signed.
Invited by the German Daoyin Yangsheng Association, he gave a public lecture on Strengthening the Body and Assisting the Lungs Fitness Method. The original says all proceeds from teaching went to support primary schools in Qianxinan in carrying out Children’s Ba Duan Jin.
Other Matters
He took his first personal disciple, Wang Yi, a doctor of exercise physiology from Beijing Sport University and a postdoctoral fellow in aerospace medicine. He signed a joint-training agreement with the School of Continuing Education of Beijing Sport University for Children’s Ba Duan Jin and Strengthening the Body and Assisting the Lungs Fitness Method. He attended the EU Cloud Qigong Fitness Seminar, held by the EU Traditional Chinese Medicine Alliance, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine’s Hospital in Kötzting, Germany, and the China–Germany Centre for Traditional Chinese Medicine. The creation of Strengthening the Body and Assisting the Lungs Fitness Method was listed among Beijing Sport University’s top ten campus news items of 2020.
He lectured on traditional sport exercise prescriptions for more than two hundred Jiangsu doctors, and was the main instructor for a national university-teacher exercise-prescription training class; more than two hundred teachers from sport institutes took part. At the Cardiac Rehabilitation Forum of the 2021 China Heart Congress he spoke on “The Fusion of Traditional Breath Regulation and Modern Respiratory Practice,” and demonstrated Yangsheng Zhuji Gong. He served as adviser to the first International Online Forum on Taiji Science. He was invited as a concluding review panelist for the Tianguan Fitness Project of the China Astronaut Research and Training Center. He lectured at Joyson Electronics, bringing Daoyin workplace exercises into this auto-parts company.
New posts included: member of the Expert Committee on Teachers’ Ethics Construction at Beijing Sport University; deputy director of the Taiji Health Special Committee of the China Association of Geriatric Health Care; member of the Sport–Medicine Integration Special Committee of the Beijing Wushu Association; senior professional-title reviewer for sport in the former General Political Department system; master’s supervisor and visiting professor in sport at Jingdezhen Ceramic University. That year he published more than ten articles in various journals.
Plans for the Next Year Written at the Time
Run the international academy well; refine the practices, publish more symptom-directed exercises, promote the Formula for Reducing Blood Pressure and Children’s Ba Duan Jin; promote Health Qigong and Daoyin Yangsheng Gong; design practices and workplace exercises with local character for localities and enterprises. The invitation at the end for people to get in touch is not taken in here.