What is Yijinjing?

Medical guidance is the earliest medical gymnastics in China, which originated in ancient China. Wuqinxi is a medical gymnastics created by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the late Han Dynasty. Yijinjing and Baduanjin are some simple and easy-to-use health gymnastics developed after guidance and Wuqinxi. Because Yijinjing and Baduanjin have obvious exercise effects and are deeply loved by the people, people regard these activities as classics and brocade.

The name Yijinjing first appeared in the manuscripts of the Ming Dynasty in the year of the Apocalypse (1624), but it was not widely circulated until after Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty.

What is Yijin? In the Book of Changes, it is said that "those who are prone to tendons refer to the influence of human body's tendons (muscles) by pregnancy", but "with the method of reconciliation, the tendons are easy to loosen, the weak are easy to strengthen, the loose ones are easy to reconcile, the weak ones are easy to grow, and the weak ones are easy to strengthen" means that after physical exercise, a person's body, whether it is a cliff, can be made into stones. People with abnormal physical development, very weak constitution and even muscle atrophy and weakness can promote their normal development, stretch their bones and muscles and increase their strength through physical exercise. Even people who are weak can make their bodies look like stones as long as they keep exercising.

In the ancient Yijinjing, many methods such as beating, rubbing, taking medicine, fumigation with liquid medicine and breathing were introduced. What is popular in modern times is mainly the limb movement part of Yijinjing. In modern times, the writings about the Book of Changes spread from light years to Zhang's Book of Changes.