Comprehensive and Sufficient Preparation

Comprehensive and sufficient preparation is the precondition of Health Qigong lesson. A lesson for learners teaches them not only techniques, but also relevant traditional Chinese culture, by which learners can learn and experience traditional Chinese culture deeply while exercising Health Qigong, thus helping arouse their interest in Health Qigong exercises. So it requires instructors to prepare relevant knowledge in store before lessons, especially to those foreigners who would like to ask why and something related to content of courses. Learners like knowledgeable teachers, the same with foreign learners. So comprehensive and sufficient preparation ensures teaching quality as well as helps to win prestige and trust from learners. For example, a student who loves violin asks whether the pronunciation of Health Qigong • Liu Zi Jue can be pronounced in another tone. As is known, I explain, exciting loud music makes people’s heartbeat speed up and blood pressure increase; while grievous low music makes people sorrowful, even burst into tears. The two cases will make a big difference to people’s mood, going against calm and tranquility, hence not meeting requirements of exercises. Level tone in pronouncing Liu Zi Jue responds to happy medium in traditional Chinese culture and rules of gently enduring required in good health keeping and life nurturing method. Calming down one’s mood and balancing Ying-yang viscera, the pronunciation of Liu Zi Jue as an effective way of keeping in good health, cannot adopt another tone. And the student is satisfied with my explanation and expresses thanks for me.

Explaining Main Points with Induction and Comparison

Summarizing from and comparing with exercises to conclude similarly essential exercises is an effective way to improve efficiency in teaching. For example, in reviewing Ba Duan Jin, I explain Holding the sky with Palms Up to Regulate the Internal Organs together with Raising the Heels and drop seven times to eliminate illness, concluding essential points of Baihui protruding, rump drooping, spine stretching and drawing abdomen and lifting anus. Again, in reviewing Liu Zi Jue, I summarize its breathing way. Its pronunciation refers to six states of people. People will breathe out “Xu” sounds slowly after finishing stressful work. So this exercise can help to remove depress and bring easiness and happiness to you. If you pronounce “Xu” in mandarin or pinyin, it’s hard to realize such result. Only in the certain state, and with specific pronunciation, mouth shape and breath, can we achieve that function. Each pronunciation of Liu Zi Jue should cooperate with breath, pronunciation as long as expiration. All are level tones, becoming vowels after delivering and lengthening. So pronunciation of Liu Zi Jue should follow specific mouth shape and breath in a certain state to keep in a good health, with mandarin or pinyin not far enough. The rest being done in the same manner, I induct and compare Si, Xi, Xu mouth shape, whose teaching method shortens time to learn and reinforces students’ memory, as result of which increases teaching efficiency and wins good reputation from students.

（By Cui Jian）