Massage is a private major medical and health care methods. Like with other traditional medical disciplines, has a long historical ties.
Origins in ancient times, human beings due to cold or impact, twist-down or loss caused by physical trauma such as numbness, pain, will be out of instinct, or their own or to partner rub mo, Anrou site in order to resist the cold does not alleviate the pain. After a long period of practice and constant sum, this spontaneous instinctive behavior evolved into a self-conscious medical practices, which form the oldest massage therapy.
Documents contained in the pre-Qin era, such as the original Wu Li Shang often used, including massage therapy, including efficacy of some folk to prove that their god. Spring and Autumn Period famous doctor Bian Que patients treated with massage Zhu Guo Jue Prince's dead and so violent illness. Tomb excavated in Anyang Yin Tao twist, jade head comb teeth and so on, is not only sanitary, but also non-governmental self-massage tool.

During the Qin and Han Jin Massage Therapy to become a discipline with national characteristics of Chinese medicine, which contains a number of private massage massage techniques and methods.
Mawangdui Han Dynasty as a "guide map" in the Chuibei, Fu Xiong, twist waist, rubbing the knee such practices; "52 sick side" in the right vertebral wood, building, coins, feathers, medicine use of towels, etc. ; "Han. Su Wu Chuan, "recorded with the full tread back Tests showed he needed a coma Su Wu and other technical;" Zhou Hou Bei Ji Fang, "pinch recorded by people, according to Weiwanxiashu thumb, grasp the umbilical 3-inch, copied to cite law, Chiropractic, back France, intraoral reduction for treatment by such means as syncope, drowning, soldier heartache, such as acute temporomandibular joint dislocation.
Massage Sui and Tang period was the development of peace and prosperity, Sui and Tang dynasties massage therapy in the medical field have a higher status and a wide range of clinical applications, people have also been rapid development. Such as "Qian Jin Yao Fang," recorded in massage treatment "disobedient children off strong ąýÚ items," "stuffy unreasonable tears out of there", "Yeti," "bloating full", "can not be breast-feeding," and so on, and "pediatric disease , get up early and often on top of head and hand, foot cream Moroccan heart, very provision of cold ", and paste Moldova pediatric heart, umbilical and other private pediatric massage to be defined. "Continuation of fairy Biography" describes MA Xiang Tang, Hangzhou, Xian Li as "Zhu Zhang fight the" treatment of lumbar and foot diseases such as music,
Is the earliest recorded instrument tapping practices. Song and Yuan Dynasties private massage prevalent during this period, and there are a lot of innovation and development. A number of medical institutions place more emphasis on the role of massage and applied research in a number of medical books are also records a number of private massage massage therapy. Such as "San Franciscans overall record," the pig iron entry rule motor wind-heat red heads and Cream Mount treatment of head top of illness, nasal congestion Ji Zhu epilepsy; "History of the Song," recorded when the massage oxytocin Pangan; "Su Shen prescription" contains pinch Treatment of Neonatal tetanus; "Doctor said," contains rubbing bamboo rolling sequelae of treatment of fractures; "Hui prescription" of "foot Law," "rolling surface in the extrusion of bone on the vertebrae," the treatment of spinal fractures.

The development of the Ming Dynasty was another flourishing massage, massage school to be a more comprehensive summary, innovation and development, in addition to Government attaches importance to set up specialist, the pediatric massage professionals, and child massage with the advent of the formation of a unique system of massage during this period of development an important symbol, and this system of production, maturity and development of further diagnosis and treatment of shock due to non-governmental manipulation authentication techniques. In the civil society, massage spread in bathing, hairdressing industry and health groups, to make massage a more professional, standardized and individualized.

Although not too hospital-based massage Qing Branch, but the massage school in children, bone, internal medicine, facial massage and cream (drug) applications as well as schools of the formation of Moldova has made great achievements, like a finger, internal strength, orthopedic, abdominal patient, organs and meridians, pinch bars beat and other private massage schools, coupled with the Ming Dynasty inherited pediatric pinpoint massage schools, are dispersed in the form of existence and development of civil society, has been extended to the Republic of China and the emergence of regional characteristics. If Ludong Xiangxi pediatric massage, orthopedic massage north, Jiangsu and Zhejiang's a finger massage, martial arts massage Shandong, Sichuan Rong's acupoints massage, massage in Shanghai and other pro-law. To sum up,
Massage therapy originated in the private sector, from the Shang court becoming an important part of medicine, to the Qin and Han Chinese medicine developed into a discipline. Since then, the development of ancient constantly learn new techniques from the private and health care experience, experience on behalf of the medical home, constantly sum up, innovation and improved, forming a multi-disciplinary clinical expertise in Chinese medicine. Massage and the development of science, but also promoted civil massage therapy, continuous innovation and growth, and become a private massage therapy solid theoretical foundation. Thus, Chinese medicine massage massage massage massage therapy disciplines and the development of civil society, complementarity and the used.