News March 2008

The term Qi Gong came into being in 1950 at the height of Maoist thinking. Chinese therapeutic exercise had along with martial arts, literature, art, grass, yes grass?  the green stuff that grows all over the place, was banned as it was considered bourgeois, and schoolchildren spent their days ripping it up wherever it was spotted in their towns upon the orders of progressive communist thinkers.

So the term Qi Gong became an accepted umbrella term for Chinese therapeutic exercise sanctioned and monitored by the ever wise Chinese ruling authority.