In the culture Chinese, in particular the medical, no distinction is made between an individual's body and her spirit. So, live long and in full possession of their physical and mental faculties, is the purpose of Art Long Life ... in other words the art of living between Heaven and Earth, is in agreement with one or the other. The "long life" has nothing in common with the life expectancy or age of biological Western medical thinking. The "Long Life" is an image of Heaven and Earth, as they appear in a timeless world that is part of the "noumenal", where it expresses only the "original nature". A world in which phenomena are subject to bias and to change, a world of permanence, you get infinite moment to moment, putting in the right space between Heaven and Earth. A man or a woman, with her feet firmly planted on the ground and his head hanging from the sky is the image of an individual who has reached the "Long Life".
This image, attributed to Mencius (Mengzi, IV century BC), describes the concept of long life: a man placed vertically, upright, with the upper limbs and rounded face up (the Sky ), the lower limbs, more square, facing down (the Earth). Ideally oriented in space, arms and legs are in harmony with respect to the central axis of the body, the top opens up (Sky), the lower level down (the Earth). On the median, represented by a horizontal line intersecting the vertical axis, the Man, the intermediate is related to the Heaven and Earth. These two sections, horizontal and vertical, taken together, form the cross, a symbol of change, transition state, in essence. The graphic symbol, figure (2) represents the image of "Man in Space", "Man Structured" or "man-oriented." Returning the idea of \u200b\u200bstability, of righteousness, this symbol describes the search for an optimal balance between time (the circle, the cycles) and space (square, defined) in relation to the situation (here and now.) In other words, a living thing that shares the sky with creativity, through the perception of ideas and then thought, and with the Earth, the stability, the ability to occupy different positions in space where he works, so a "between Heaven and Man Earth. "
Figure (3) overlaps the symbol of Man Structured a circle, a triangle and a square make even more intuitive reports: Sky - Circle - Intellect; Men - Triangle - Emotions, Earth - Square - structure. Figure (4), more detailed earlier, symbolizes the "Longevity (Shou) and identifies the practice of" Long Life ". The figure of Mencius you add some graphic details. On the top floor, head or "Palace of Light" (MING GONG), is associated with open arms to Heaven (Tian) welcoming the spiritual breath or Thin Breaths (SHEN QI). In the median, the Centre (ZHONG), always on a horizontal axis, we find a confined space, the MING TANG, or "Pavilion of Clarity." An intermediate place in the middle of the chest, point of collection and exchange between Heaven and Earth. In the lower floor, the legs placed in the center of the pelvic or "Palace of the Yellow Court and Destiny "(HUANG TING GONG MING MEN), are subject to the effect of gravity passing through the central axis. This is what is beyond the point of the coccyx and penetrates the Earth (DI). The central axis indicates the direction of energy flow and shows the way where you collect "Heavy Blows", rough and coarse elements that undergo the natural effect of gravity. These puffs are concentrated gradually from top to bottom, from outside to inside, from the periphery to the depth, in order to nourish the body shape. The energy moves toward the inside of the body, collects and concentrates the forces thin (blue) to those thick (land), with function of a filter that drains the essence (jing) in order to entrench the puffs (IQ) in the body (XING).
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