Ba duan jin offers health benefits by coordinating body movements with breathing and a relaxed mind. "With your fingers crossed, inhale, then slowly lift your arms above your head." Long Jing, 66, is ...

Advocate and practitioner of ba duan jin, Zhang Yan, and her team won the 2020 Gansu Provincial Ba Duan Jin Contest in November. The contest, involving 33 teams, drew more than 1,400 participants.

This photo shows the cover of a Chinese book about the Shaolin-style ba duan jin, a version of the qigong exercise that probably comes from the Shaolin Temple, a Buddhist institution known as a kung ...