In the 1970s and 1980s, a qigong craze swept across the country. Numerous so-called qigong masters emerged, all claiming to possess supernatural abilities. They set up altars to lecture, recruited disciples on a massive scale, and published books about their exploits, successfully hoodwinking a vast number of ordinary people.
Back then, under the spell of a certain master, many people walked around with stainless steel pots on their heads, believing they could receive cosmic signals that would make them immune to all diseases and elevate them to immortal status—a series of utterly ridiculous farces.
It wasn't until the government cracked down that these masters finally vanished from the public eye. With the advent of the information age, public intelligence gradually improved; while similar scams and swindles were not completely eradicated, they could no longer make any major waves.
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