A241: Study on the Health Value of Chinese Traditional Archery in the Traditional Daoyin Regimen

Abstract

Chinese archery, as a combination of sport, skill, and culture, is the historical crystallization of Chinese national culture. From the perspective of traditional guided health preservation, this paper systematically combs the theoretical basis and practical methods of Chinese traditional archery and reveals its health preservation thoughts of “Body and spirit co-cultivation”, “Dynamic and static combination”, and “Qi and blood harmony”, enriching the theoretical system of traditional sports regimen. Chinese traditional daoyin health care focuses on “Adjusting body”, “Adjusting breath”, and “Adjusting mind”, and analyzes the unique role of traditional archery in “Three tunes”. This paper demonstrates health health-preserving value of traditional archery as “Dynamic guidance” and provides a theoretical basis and practical guidance for its inheritance and development in modern society, it also provides a way to exercise with both cultural heritage and health benefits. Methods of documentation, expert interview, induction, and deduction were employed (1) “Body adjustment”. Traditional archery emphasizes “Upright body, steady bow and straight arrow”, which requires practitioners to maintain the center of the spine, shoulder and back extension, and limb coordination in the action of opening, aiming, and releasing the bow. This kind of specific posture training can correct posture, strengthen bones and tendons, and improve the circulation of Qi and blood. (2) “Breathe adjustment”. Archery pays attention to “Breath is the heart”, its breathing pattern, and the guidance of “Breathing” in the same strain. Long-term contact can be done to breathe naturally long, to rest the guiding force, harmonizing Yin and Yang. (3) “Psychological adjustment”. Since ancient times, archery has been regarded as the art of “Self-cultivation”, and its psychological regulation is particularly prominent, which can achieve concentration, emotion regulation, and unity of knowledge and action. Based on the theory of the traditional Daoyin regimen, this study systematically demonstrates the health value of the trinity of “Adjusting body, adjusting breath, and adjusting heart” in Chinese traditional archery. Traditional archery is a kind of “Dynamic guidance” with distinct characteristics, which has the dual effects of “Moving to nourish the body” and “Quiet to nourish the mind”. In the future, we should learn from the development model of Chinese guidance and carry out the research and practice of the combination of the two. To bring into play the unique advantages of traditional archery in improving Sub-optimal health, preventing chronic diseases, and promoting mental health