What Is Neigong?

Internal Gong, martial arts term (more common in martial arts novels). In ancient times, it was also called Qi Gong, Dao Gong, Tuna, Guidance, Alchemy, Xuan Gong, Jing Gong, Ding Gong, Sexual Gong, Taoism, Meditation, Nei Dan Gong, Nei Yang Gong, Yang Gong, etc. The principle is to inhale the clear air from all the stars through the way of nourishing, nourishing and mixing the innate air, so that the body's true qi gradually becomes full. It is a method of exercising the internal organs of the body and strengthening the body. Duanmu Shuliang's "Broken Face": "He can't beat the old man, the old man has internal strength!". The highest state of internal power is called "body knowledge", which means "the body itself knows the operation of qi." Internal power comes from Chinese martial arts, and there are still many esoterics to be further studied and verified.

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True Qi is a term of Taoism and Chinese medicine. The ancients believed that the true Qi in the human body is divided into innate air and acquired air. Innate air is taken from the mother's womb. The acquired air is acquired by breathing and diet the day after tomorrow. . Internal work ^[1]

Scientifically, the so-called internal power is

There was a culture of "internal power" long ago in ancient times, but it was not called "internal power", but "guidance", "gas refining", "convincing", "building foundation", "inner power", "inner power" These terms such as "cultivation" are more common. The internal power culture has a long history. The "Five Bird Play" edited by Hua Han in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the "Ba Duan Jin" in the Southern Song Dynasty all belong to the internal power culture category. The earliest appearance of the word "Inner Gong" should be in the Qing Dynasty, such as "The Internal Gong Four Classics" admired by Mr. Song Shirong (1849-1927), a master of Xingyiquan in the late Qing Dynasty; In the published "Internal Gong Tu Shuo", the words "Internal Gong" are seen in the titles of these books.
According to rumors, the Nei Gong Four Classics was a lead stone lockbox by Taoist Nan Xizi in a certain stream at the end of the Song Dynasty. It was opened three years later, and received three copies of Nei Gong, Na Gua, Divine Fortune, and Di Long Qu. In the early Qing Dynasty, Wang Nanxi's ancestors purchased the Four Classics of Nei Gong. In 1816, Wang Nanxi and his friend Zong Jingfang met. The two commented and subscribed for the scripture respectively.
The content of "Internal Gongtu" mainly comes from Xu Mingfeng's "Shou Shi Fax" during the Qianlong period, and the Zhang family's "Yi Jin Jing" in the Daoguang period.
As for martial arts novels, the word "internal strength" should first appear in the martial arts novels of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. .
Original text of Qingcheng Nineteen Xia Fiction: Luo Lu pretended to take a step forward and turned her wrist slightly. The middle three fingers pinched You Xuan's veins and secretly transported [internal power], focusing her strength on her fingers. Fight. Man Yu thought that he never prepared himself to make a stunt, and even begging for mercy, it also made him half-hearted.

Hard work focuses on the flesh, light work focuses on the waist and legs. Their qi is naturally formed during long-term exercise, not specifically developed. Let me explain one by one:

The highest state of internal power is called "body knowledge", which means "the body itself knows the operation of qi". To be more "Martial Arts", it is called "Getting through"

The internal skill described in Chinese martial arts novels should have been born in 1932, and its "inventor" was called Li Shoumin. Li Shoumin also has a pen-named "Return Pearl Master". He, Zhang Henshui, and others were the leading figures in the Yuan Dynasty butterfly novels of the early Republic of China.

Li Shoumin's masterpiece is Shu Shan Jian Xia Bi, but he is the most famous

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Cheng created a literary genre of martial arts novels, combining ancient legends with myths, monsters, sword immortals, and martial arts. He created a prosperous martial arts novel and set a precedent for a generation.

Li Shoumin first mentioned "Inner Gong" in "The Nineteen Knights of Qingcheng", and then he further perfected the "Doctrine" and "Doctrine" in "The Seven Women in Wudang" and "Biography of Changmei". It also puts forward in the book the "doctrine" that Wudang school is "internal kung fu" and Shaolin school is "foreign kung fu". After liberation, Li Shoumin was renamed Li Hong. Beginning in 1956, he was instructed by his superiors in the newspaper to make a profound self-criticism of his "Feng Zi Xiu Poisonous Weed". Five years later, he was "critically" killed by the revolutionary teenager.

At the same time Li Shoumin accepted the criticism, Hong Kong and Taiwan writer Jin Yong and others began to take over Li Shoumin's banner, deepen his internal theory of "doctrine", and began to create various martial arts. As a result, the novel genre created by Li Shoumin developed and grew, Independence from the Pupa Butterfly School became a martial arts novel that later became popular in mainland China.

When Li Shoumin died, martial arts novels sprang up endlessly. Some good people based them on martial arts martial arts founded by famous martial arts writers, or the martial arts preferred by the main characters set in their books, and named them as heads of various martial arts. For example, Liang Yusheng, who founded a Tianshan school in his book, and likes to set the main character or positive character as a disciple of the Tianshan school, so he is called "the head of the Tianshan school". This is what the so-called martial arts writers of the Eight Major Schools, the Ten Major Schools, and the Eighteenth School leaders headed at.

It is said

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, There is a martial arts writer named Liu who always prefers to feed the protagonist some ancient vegetables in the book-such as ancient tomatoes (the book is often written as Cabernet Sauvignon or Zhu Guo), or ancient eggplant (Kunlun Zigua), etc. Therefore, after he was designated as the head of a certain faction, he was also dubbed "the head of the wild fruit faction" and also the "head of the ancient vegetable faction." Later, those writers who also preferred to feed ancient vegetables to the "pig's feet" in the book were also collectively referred to as "wild fruit disciples."

Before Li Shoumin was born, or "Qing Cheng Nine Knights" was born, China would never have "internal strength". Prior to this, ancient Chinese novels never mentioned the "internal power", so in the "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" born in the early Ming Dynasty, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei did not have internal power. Even the immortals in "Feng Shen Yan Yi" and "Journey to the West" will not do internal work, but this is the era when Wudang Zhang Sanfeng was alive!

Until the Qing Dynasty, the knights in Heroes of the New Sons and Daughters could not do their best.