Daoyin, guiding and pulling, is the older name for the sequences of slow movement, stretching and breath control that survive today as qigong and, in martial form, as taijiquan. Illustrated charts of daoyin postures were excavated at Mawangdui in a tomb sealed in 168 BCE, so the practice is at least that old. The breath is directed to the lower dantian below the navel, the movements are unhurried and linked, and the instruction is uniformly against strain. What is worth noting is that the tradition has never separated the health, martial and religious functions: the same practice extends life, trains a fighter and refines qi for internal alchemy, and a practitioner does not have to choose. Parks across China fill before dawn with practitioners, overwhelmingly retired, and the state has promoted standardised forms as public health measures while remaining wary of qigong organisations, for reasons the Falun Gong episode made clear.