The 8 Brocades of Qigong
Display titles and publisher names are translated or transliterated by TCM Compass where needed. Original information is retained separately below.
- Publisher / author
- The University of Manchester
- Source language
- English
- Actually accessed
- 2026-11-04
- Published date
- Not confirmed
- Material type
- Institutional educational resource
- Access status
- Actually accessed
- What this source cannot establish
- Institutional article read, including four tutorial groups. Embedded/external videos not watched. Broad claims that exercise suits everyone or heals are not adopted; this is not individualized instruction or clinical evidence.
Supports: external learning resource · Manchester Confucius Institute series attribution · instructor Dr Amily Wang Guenier · English names and paired tutorial navigation
Original source information
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- Original title
- The 8 Brocades of Qigong
- Original publisher / author
- The University of Manchester
- Original source language code
- en
- Original material type
- institutional educational resource
- Original supported topics
- external learning resource · Manchester Confucius Institute series attribution · instructor Dr Amily Wang Guenier · English names and paired tutorial navigation
- Original access status
- accessible
- Recorded access date
- 2026-11-04
- Recorded publication date
- —
- Original review notes
- Institutional article read, including four tutorial groups. Embedded/external videos not watched. Broad claims that exercise suits everyone or heals are not adopted; this is not individualized instruction or clinical evidence.
How this reference is used here
These are our published explanations that cite this source. Each link opens the relevant section; this does not mean the publisher endorses the article.
Getting Started With Baduanjin · Two institutional routes, with different navigation
For a Chinese-language reference, HKU’s e-learning page names Dr Chan Suet-mui in its full demonstration link and provides text and separate embedded clips for preparation, each of the eight movements, and closing. Read the whole page once to understand that structure, then use the numbered headings to locate the lesson you need. The written explanations also contain traditional health claims; their presence on a university page does not turn them into established clinical outcomes.
Getting Started With Baduanjin · A realistic first visit: observe and locate
First watch or inspect the chosen resource without trying to memorize the whole sequence. Find the preparation, first movement and closing material; check that you can understand the language and see the teacher. Use the companion names guide to match the Chinese heading to the English label rather than guessing from a pose.
Getting Started With Baduanjin · Choose help according to the question
A video can show a sequence; it cannot observe your balance, pain or response. If learning causes pain, dizziness or feeling unwell, stop and seek appropriate advice rather than using a traditional movement name to interpret the symptom. If an existing condition, injury or recovery makes exercise suitability uncertain, discuss that decision with a qualified healthcare professional and tell the instructor what guidance you received.
The Eight Brocades: Names and Learning Resources · A map for one documented sequence
This companion follows the numbered Chinese headings on HKU’s health-qigong e-learning page. The short English phrases after each Chinese name are this site’s navigation aids, not standardized translations or movement instructions. Manchester’s English labels are included separately so you can find its corresponding tutorial.
The Eight Brocades: Names and Learning Resources · The eight names, in source order
1. Two hands support the sky. Manchester label: Two Hands Hold up the Heavens. Tutorial 1.
Original Chinese wording
- 雙手托天理三焦
The Eight Brocades: Names and Learning Resources · How to find the lesson you need
On HKU’s e-learning page, locate the Chinese numbered heading and the clip beside it. There is a full-demonstration link at the top, followed by preparation, the individual movements and closing. Use that structure when you need context before or after a movement. The page’s written action notes are teaching material; this name index does not reproduce them as a substitute.
The Eight Brocades: Names and Learning Resources · Read historical health language as historical language
The full Chinese titles preserve traditional ideas. San jiao, spleen-and-stomach wording, and kidney wording refer to traditional Chinese medicine concepts and organ systems. These words are part of the names, not a measurement of digestive or kidney function. “Five strains and seven injuries” is traditional language of strain and injury; it is not a list of modern diagnoses that this page has verified. “Removing heart fire” should not be read as an instruction to treat heart disease.
Original Chinese wording
- 三焦
- 脾胃
- 腎
- 五勞七傷
- 去心火
The Eight Brocades: Names and Learning Resources · Names vary; do not make a new routine from them
HKU and Manchester use different Chinese characters for “clench the fists” in the seventh heading. Both original spellings are retained separately below. Short English names may omit traditional organ language entirely, as with “Separate Heaven and Earth,” so search using both the Chinese title and the teaching institution when an English name produces ambiguous results.
Original Chinese wording
- 攢拳
- 攥拳