Difference between TAI CHI and QIGONG?

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Difference between TAI CHI and QIGONG?
Virtually the same, though styles can vary between teachers, countries and schools. Chi means the same as Qi, or Ki, and means breath, spirit or power, or a combination of those three depending on interpretation. Tai means The Way of, and Gong, Gung, or Kung means Working with. OK? Go your way peacefully, grasshopper
Reply:People who play the QIGONG can fly!I learn this from the movie and fiction.
Reply:Tai Chi or also known as T'ai Chi Ch'üan is considered a soft style martial art, an art applied with as complete a relaxation or "softness" in the musculature as possible





Qigong is an aspect of Chinese medicine involving the coordination of different breathing patterns with various physical postures and motions of the body.
Reply:Tai Chi is a Kung Fu from a famous Kung Fu Master long time ago. You can fight with Tai Chi and bounce back your opponents' attack. Tai Chi is an art of fighting using 'Yi Yang' to balance out attack.





Qi Gong is an exercise to cultivate the internal energy in your body. Qi means energy, Gong means exercise.
Reply:TAI CHI - is martial arts involving movement, exercise, and is considered a fighting style.





QIGONG - is focus and movement of your internal energy usually praticed with a form of meditition.





Qigong does not necessary involve movement or exercise it's 'Mental'. In chinese martial arts all martial arts involve Qigong while Qigong encampass a much broader area then just martial arts.
Reply:First, it is taijiquan, not tai chi. Taijiquan is a form of meditative excercise done by millions in China, characterized by slow deliberate movements. One form is called Yang, another Chen





Qigong is more a set of breathing exercise and meditation, sitting pretty still.





Qi is the Chinese word for inner energy source, or life energy. There is no equivalent in English
Reply:Not the same thing.
Reply:Qigong (气功), or "exercising the Qi" -- the vital life force in one's body -- is considered to be a part of traditional Chinese medicine in preventive and therapeutic health care.





As a result of this popularity, there has been some divergence between those who say they practice Taiji primarily for fighting, those who practice it for its aesthetic appeal (as in the shortened, modern, theatrical "Taijiquan(太极拳)" forms of wushu, see below), and those who are more interested in its benefits to physical and mental health.
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