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In religious Daoism and Traditional Chinese medicine, yangsheng (養生, "nourishing life"), refers to various self-cultivaton practices aimed at enhancing health and longevity. Yangsheng techniques include calisthenics, self-massage, breath exercises, meditation, internal and external Daoist alchemy, sexual activities, and dietetics.

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  • In religious Daoism and Traditional Chinese medicine, yangsheng (養生, "nourishing life"), refers to various self-cultivaton practices aimed at enhancing health and longevity. Yangsheng techniques include calisthenics, self-massage, breath exercises, meditation, internal and external Daoist alchemy, sexual activities, and dietetics. Most yangsheng methods are intended to increase longevity, a few to achieve "immortality"— in the specialized Daoist sense of transforming into a xian ("transcendent", who typically dies after a few centuries, loosely translated as "immortal"). While common longevity practices (such as eating a healthy diet or exercising) can increase one's lifespan and well-being, some esoteric transcendence practices (such as "grain avoidance" diets where an adept eats only qi/breath instead of foodstuffs, or drinking frequently poisonous Daoist alchemical elixirs of life) can ironically be deadly. (en)
  • 道教養生分為外丹與內丹，內丹又分為靜功和動功，靜功主要是注重體內氣的運行；動功則重視武術練功。 (zh)
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  • 양생 (en)
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  • 養生 (en)
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  • ようじょう (en)
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  • Joeng5sang1 (en)
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  • 養生 (en)
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  • nourish/nurture life (en)
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  • YangXsræng (en)
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  • Yangsaeng (en)
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  • *[G]aŋʔsreŋ (en)
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  • Yǎngshēng (en)
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  • Daoyin tu - chart for leading and guiding people in exercise Wellcome L0036007.jpg (en)
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  • Reconstructed drawings from the 168 BCE Daoyin tu in the Mawangdui Silk Texts (en)
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  • Yōjō (en)
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  • 养生 (en)
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  • 養生 (en)
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  • Yangsheng (en)
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  • Yang-sheng (en)
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  • 道教養生分為外丹與內丹，內丹又分為靜功和動功，靜功主要是注重體內氣的運行；動功則重視武術練功。 (zh)
  • In religious Daoism and Traditional Chinese medicine, yangsheng (養生, "nourishing life"), refers to various self-cultivaton practices aimed at enhancing health and longevity. Yangsheng techniques include calisthenics, self-massage, breath exercises, meditation, internal and external Daoist alchemy, sexual activities, and dietetics. (en)
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  • Yangsheng (Daoism) (en)
  • 養生 (道教) (zh)
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