{"id":1615,"date":"2024-03-04T19:37:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/faq-items\/what-is-the-difference-between-qigong-tai-chi-and-kung-fu\/"},"modified":"2024-03-04T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:37:10","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-qigong-tai-chi-and-kung-fu","status":"publish","type":"avada_faq","link":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/faq-items\/what-is-the-difference-between-qigong-tai-chi-and-kung-fu\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between Qigong, Tai Chi and Kung Fu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tai Chi (also referred to as Taiji, Taijiquan and Tai Chi Chuan) and Kung Fu (also called Gong Fu and WuShu) are forms of martial arts that derive from Qigong.<br \/>\nTai Chi is a light or internal martial art, while Kung Fu is considered a hard or external martial art form of Qigong.<br \/>\nQigong provides the basic power, strength, focus, discipline, etc. for all these martial arts practices (regardless of whether they are &#8220;hard&#8221; or &#8220;soft&#8221;) through the manipulation and balancing of the body&#8217;s energy.<br \/>\nTai Chi began as a health practice that was so effective in developing internal strength that it was adapted by some into the martial art of Tai Chi Chuan.<br \/>\nNow, Tai Chi and Qigong are once again becoming a way for people to take responsibility for their own health care.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3480,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"faq_category":[],"class_list":["post-1615","avada_faq","type-avada_faq","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq_category?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}