On Tong and Huo in the Practice of Health Qigong

摘要

The Chinese term Tong and Huo are two important indivisible elements in Chinese Health Qigong. The term Tong is the body of Tao, which refers to the smoothness, fluency and coherence of the movements, breath, mind, spirit and the whole body and also the unity of heaven, mankind and nature, etc.. The term Huo is the application of Tao, which refers to the flexibility and agility of the movements, contents, forms, thought and adjustment of body according to different situations. Tong and Huo have made up the relations of dialectical unity, which is a significant way of regime and the cultural foundation of the inheritance, promotion and introduction of Health Qigong.