What is meant by "Promoting qi" (行气)?

Promoting qi circulation, also known as "taking the breath", "eating the breath" and "refining the breath", is a method of health maintenance and internal repair, which focuses on breathing and breathing, supplemented by guidance and massage.

Taoist practice attaches importance to the effect of qi on human body, and holds that everything from heaven and earth needs qi to live. "Recording Life and Regulating Qi" says: "When people are in qi, qi gathers and they are born, and when they die, they die." "Taiping Jing" said: "People who want to live a long life should love qi, respect God and attach importance to essence ... Therefore, when a staff sergeant practices Buddhism, he should eat qi first." Ge Hong, a Taoist scholar and famous alchemist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, also thinks: "Although taking medicine is the foundation of longevity, if you can also promote qi, your benefits will be very fast. If you can't get medicine, but do your best, you will be hundreds of years old. "