Mysterious and wondrous, Qigong is an outstanding legacy of Chinese culture as well as an important part of traditional Chinese medicine. As a form of traditional breathing exercise, Qigong has been practiced by the Chinese for thousand of years. Literally, qi means air or breath, in fact, it refers to the body's physiology functions. Qingong experts call it the internal qi or datian qi which generate life. In ancient Chinese cosmology, qi is closely tied in with spirit as distinguished from physical substance. The Taoist philosophy regards man's qi as part of the universal qi or man's, life force. Gong refers to Kungfu. Therefore, Qigong is a kind of self-training method by which the practitioner use the initiative to train the body and mind, providing a holistic training for self-reliance, self-adjustment, body building, prophylaxis, curing disease and strengthening the constitution, resisting premature aging and prolonging life.

History
The history of Qigong can be dated back to Zhou Dynasty about 3,000 years ago. Qigong exercise was already recorded in the Jinwen text, incriptions on ancient bronze sacrifical objects. The oldest book recording Qigong is Master Lu's Spring and Autumn A nnals written in 230 B.C.