Dance and music are concepts without concrete definitions to describe them. Have you heard “Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds?” I wouldn’t consider it music exactly, but other people seem to think so. Paintings (and qigong) are described by their processes. If I carve something out of clay, it would not be considered a painting. If I take a picture of something, frame it, and sell it as a painting, it would indeed be a “fake painting,” even if the picture is of a collection of pigments on a flat surface. Just waving my arms around in a ritualized and athletic manner certainly wouldn’t make my actions qigong, would it?

The talisman of qigong is the actions and performance as witnessed by the subject, along with any information you provided them describing what qigong is, or information they had prior to the experiment.

Anyway, with neither a needle nor a pill to serve as a talisman, I would expect “fake” qigong to underperform.