Blind massage推拿
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Have u heard of a movie called Blind Massage recently? This movie which is set in Nanjing is a 2014 Chinese-French film directed by Lou Ye and based on a novel by Bi Feiyu. The film was in competition for the Golden Bear at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
What is massage and what is blind massage?
Massage has developed continuously in China for over 5000 years. Westerners are considered within the traditional framework. It is widely practiced and taught in hospital and medical schools and is an essential part of health maintenance and primary healthcare.
Begin the massage: Often, they fold the top towel down, pour a little oil in the palm of hands and rub them together to warm it.
Then, they would massage in order.:back, neck, shoulder, legs and feet.
Place one hand on top of the other and circle around each of the body part. Staying nice and slow, use your fingers to massage , round the sides of body part and up to the base of the skull.
Keep the same rhythm going, as you pick up the muscles around the body parts with your fingers and thumbs, squeezing to loosen them up. Once the customer feel relaxed, they would gently increase pressure each time you go keeping the pressure on the palms of your hands, make small circles with your thumbs all the way
Sweep back down, then repeat as often as you both like.
Medical research has shown that the benefits of massage include pain relief, reduced anxiety and depression, and temporarily reduced blood pressure, heart rate.
So does blind massage.
But what is blind massage?
It is considered to be massaged by blindman .
Blind massage has been developing since the 1st hospital for massaging by blind massgers was built in Nanchang in 1960s. The blind working here are educated well and gain professional massage skills from a massage training school.
Since the open and reform policy, this industry has been seen to have more opportunities for the blind person. According to a research, there are 300,000 blindman working as a masseur in 2013 and the number is increasing. Compared with normal people, blindmen are believed to focus more on massaging because they are blind. Many blindmen have less choices to make a living. They work as a masseur or a foutune-teller. And obviously, masseur is a noble job because they can help people and have a lot of medical knowledge just like a doctor. Therefore, many blind people have a tendency to be a masseur. Those are the reason why many massage stores have been a great expansion. Mr. Yang, a blind masseur, told the jounrnalist that he had to do this job because of his disability. If he could see, he would have probably not made a living by massaging. It is regretable that he could not achieve his dreams.。