三 · 禽 · Body · 1:04
Five animals
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Almost three centuries before the temple, a physician lived in Qiao: Hua Tuo.
History Wikipedia: Hua Tuo
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He told his student Wu Pu: the body wants work and movement, but never to exhaustion.
Quotation Wikisource: 卷82下
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Then the blood flows and illness cannot arise, just as a door hinge never rots.
Quotation Wikisource: 卷82下Wikisource: 卷29
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“I have a method: the frolics of the five animals. Tiger. Deer. Bear. Ape. Bird.”
Quotation Wikisource: 卷82下
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Wu Pu practised it. Past ninety, his eyes and ears were clear and his teeth firm.
History Wikisource: 卷29
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Later the south trained five others: dragon, snake, tiger, leopard and crane.
History shaolin.org: five-animal-setWikipedia: Animal styles in Chinese martial arts
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Five animals to heal. Five to fight.