Chinese woodcut: Circulation of Qi during Qigong practice

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Chinese woodcut: Circulation of Qi during Qigong practice. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Woodcut from Che sheng ba bian neijing (The Penetrating Mirror of the Interior in Eight Books), engraved in the Kangxi reign period of the Qing dynasty (1662-1722), illustrating the flow and circulation of Genuine Qi (zhen qi - the combination of innate and acquired Qi), here shown in counterflow, welling up like a fountain from the end of the coccyx to the top of the head. This is a representation of the movement of Genuine Qi in the body during the practice of Qigong.

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PICTURE TITLE: Heche niliu tu (Illustration of the Water Wheel against the current). OTHER LETTERING: Kunlun (Kunlun); shuangguan (Two Passes); qihai (Sea of Qi); weilü (Coccyx)

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