General Introduction
History
Benefits

General Introduction
Inspired from the actions of different animals, the ancient Chinese invented "remedy dancing" to help maintain good health.

Wu Qin Xi is a qigong practice imitating animal movements and manners with disease prevention, medical treatment and vitality promotion as the major functions. Qin means beast and generally referred to animals in ancient times. Xi referred to activities such as acrobatics in ancient times and refers hereby specifically to special movements. Wuqin Xi is also known as the Five-animal Exercise or Wuqin Qigong. The one who summed up and promoted Wuqin Xi was Hua Tuo.

History
The famous TCM physician, Hua Tuo (AD 141-208) claimed that: "the human body needs physical exercises but must not exert itself to the extreme. Motions promote digestion, absorption and blood circulate smoothly has to be well designed." He thus devised movements that mimicked the movements of five animals: the tiger, deer, bear, monkey and bird.

Benefits
Wuqin Xi is consisted of 5 groups of actions imitating the movement of the tiger, deer, bear, ape and bird. It is a bionic exercise. Regular exercising of Wuqin Xi can dredge the main and collateral channels, regulate Qi and blood, nourish the viscera and strengthen muscle and bones sooth joint activities, and thus achieves the purpose of disease prevention and life prolonging.