Qi | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-10

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi


00:00:46 1 Linguistic aspects
00:01:11 1.1 Pronunciation and etymology
00:02:38 1.2 Characters
00:06:07 1.3 Meanings
00:07:01 1.4 English borrowing
00:07:52 2 Concept
00:09:56 3 Philosophical roots
00:15:28 4 Role in traditional Chinese medicine
00:17:27 5 Comparable concepts
00:17:41 5.1 Religious beliefs
00:18:17 5.2 Popular culture
00:18:47 6 Scientific view
00:20:07 7 Practices involving qi
00:20:17 7.1 Feng shui
00:21:08 7.2 Qigong
00:21:44 7.3 Martial arts
00:22:35 7.4 Acupuncture and moxibustion
00:23:04 7.5 Taoist sexual practices
00:23:13 8 See also



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SUMMARY
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In traditional Chinese culture, qi or ch'i (Chinese: 气; pinyin: qì qì) is believed to be a vital force forming part of any living entity. Qi translates as "air" and figuratively as "material energy", "life force", or "energy flow".  Qi is the central underlying principle in Chinese traditional medicine and in Chinese martial arts. The practice of cultivating and balancing qi is called qigong.
Believers of qi describe it as a vital energy, the flow of which must be balanced for health. Qi is a pseudoscientific, unverified concept, which has never been directly observed, and is unrelated to the concept of energy used in science (vital energy is itself an abandoned scientific notion).