Kung Chi El Derives from skills more Antigua known as Dao Yin. Term the-Qigong is relatively recent, no it was used in his spent sense until current XXth century. In a beginning it designated his martial use (1915, 1929). No it is up 1936 that it uses paragraph to designate his therapeutic application in the Therapeutic specific work paragraph the tuberculosis: Chi Kung de Dong the-Hao, published in Hangzhou. In December, 1955, of Chinese department she health recognized officially interest the therapeutic one of Chi Kung and recommended his practice.
At present there is used the term Chi Kung (Qi Gong) to refer to multiple exercises destined to develop ends force (physical, energy, mental or spiritual) or to therapeutic, by means of the mobilization of the human energy (Qi).