{"id":69617,"date":"2026-07-18T05:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=69617"},"modified":"2026-07-18T05:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:46:19","slug":"everyones-health-has-improved-how-tai-chi-energises-these-chinese-retirees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=69617","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everyone\u2019s health has improved\u2019: how tai chi energises these Chinese retirees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/07\/16\/57328579-1519-4a3d-bfdb-1ebb2d63f1bb_68f1f36f.jpg?itok=It19B6p9&amp;v=1784174067\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With one of their arms raised and the other lowered, hundreds of people move every morning like birds spreading their wings at the heart of Beijing\u2019s Temple of Heaven.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They are performing a movement in tai chi, a physical and philosophical practice developed more than 300 years ago that continues to resonate in China today.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe environment is great and the air is good too,\u201d Ye Guirong, 64, says. \u201cYou can see we\u2019re surrounded by trees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Most practitioners are retirees in their 60s and beyond. Some exercise in groups while a speaker plays relaxing music in the background. Others move silently on their own.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ye first encountered tai chi in 2010. Recently retired, she took walks across the city and one day spotted the group she now leads.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI thought it looked good, so I started practising,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3360749\/everyones-health-has-improved-how-tai-chi-energises-these-chinese-retirees?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With one of their arms raised and the other lowered, hundreds of people move every morning like birds spreading their wings at the heart of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2932,107,26729,12852,1714,7470,15115,3459],"class_list":["post-69617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-chi","tag-chinese","tag-energises","tag-everyones","tag-health","tag-improved","tag-retirees","tag-tai","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}