"Ch'i means breath," says Lu Sung- chi, the eighth grandmaster of the southern Shaolin school. "The object of training your ch'i is to make your breathing long and regular. Most people breathe about 18 times a minute sitting down, but someone who is good at kungfu can cut this down to three times, or even less."
「所謂『氣』，就是吐納，也就是呼吸」，南宗少林俗派第八代掌門呂松吉說：「練氣的目的，是使氣息變得長而均勻，一般人靜坐時每分鐘大概呼吸十八次，練到相當功力，每分鐘能降到三次，甚至更少。」