Jogging may be slowly spreading in the Middle Kingdom, but the phenomenon of walking backwards is already firmly established. It's so popular I've seen it across China, from Hohhot to Beijing to Guangzhou, thousands of kilometers south.
"Over time I've come to learn that Chinese medicine often asks you to work backwards like this. It's when we're dying for escape from the heat of Beijing's infernal summers that we need to drink warm water, one traditional Chinese doctor told me for an article I was researching. It's when we're sick and our bodies are craving comfort that we should inflict more pain through acupuncture's needle pricks or cupping's flaming bruises. "
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2010-01/19/content_9341576.htm
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