? My name is Hu Changlin, and I'm 62 years old. I am a retired teacher who has been engaged in education for more than 40 years. After retiring two years ago, I went back to my hometown Pingli County from Xi 'an for a long time because my elderly and sick parents needed to take care of me. In March this year, I just started to participate in Tai Ji Chuan Association of Changli Outdoor Association in Pingli County to study Tai Ji Chuan. After more than two months' study, I have mastered the basic routines of Tai Ji Chuan's Twenty-four Styles, gained a lot, and tasted the sweetness of learning from Tai Ji Chuan. As luck would have it, I had the honor to learn Wu-style Tai Ji Chuan Sixteen Styles from Teacher Liu Chongyang these days.
? Through this period of study, I have a preliminary understanding of Tai Ji Chuan, and feel that practicing Tai Ji Chuan is too beneficial to the physical and mental health of our elderly people. Tai Ji Chuan is the quintessence of China culture, the most unique way of sports, the only inheritance movement in China, and the long history and culture of China. Tai Ji Chuan is a kind of boxing with both internal and external training and dynamic and static combination, and it is one of the unique fitness martial arts in China. Tai Ji Chuan is a gentle whole-body exercise, which is good for all aspects of the body. By practicing Tai Ji Chuan, we can achieve the effects of strengthening the heart, nourishing the liver, strengthening the spleen, tonifying the lung, strengthening the kidney and benefiting the brain. Suitable for healthy people to practice, keep fit, prevent diseases and prolong life. It is also suitable for elderly, frail, mild coronary heart disease, tuberculosis, hepatitis and even cancer patients. Strong practicality, suitable for all ages.
I have been engaged in education all my life. Although I like sports when I was young, after all, teachers are mainly engaged in indoor mental work, lack of exercise, and their physical fitness is correspondingly poor. After more than two years of retirement, except for occasional travel, I spent all my time reading, studying, watching TV, surfing the Internet and watching mobile phones. The body is in a sub-health state. After studying and practicing in Tai Ji Chuan for more than two months, I feel a little tired after learning Tai Ji Chuan every morning. Many joints and other parts feel pain and sweating, but I feel extremely relaxed and happy psychologically and physically. Whenever I punch well, it's fun, my body becomes flexible, I walk easily, I do things slowly, I don't feel tired, I speak softly, and I am in good spirits. I think it is a right choice to learn the sport of Tai Ji Chuan!
Theoretically speaking, Tai Ji Chuan belongs to the category of martial arts in China, and it is also an integral part of medical health preservation in China. By practicing Tai Ji Chuan, we can achieve the purpose of getting rid of diseases and strengthening the body, strengthening the body and prolonging life. Tai Ji Chuan has excellent health preserving wisdom. As the essence of China Wushu, his offensive and defensive functions are also very powerful. It is precisely because Tai Ji Chuan has quite complete offensive and defensive functions that it can use softness to overcome strength.
Technically, the biggest difference between Tai Ji Chuan and other kinds of boxing is that she is an effortless, gravity-oriented sport, and her mind dominates her body.
Tai Ji Chuan pays attention to action, concentrates on guiding spirit with meaning, and all changes in form and spirit, one stroke and one style, all emphasize meaning first, meaning obedience and meaning quietness.
? I'm just getting in touch with Tai Ji Chuan, just getting started. I have read some knowledge and theories about Tai Ji Chuan before. Now I have the opportunity to formally study and practice Tai Ji Chuan, and I only learned simple Tai Ji Chuan-style routines. The connection and details of many moves are still not in place.
? Fortunately, Pingli County Senior Sports Association invited Liu Chongyang, the sixth generation descendant of Wu-style Tai Ji Chuan, from the northeast to hold a training course for Wu-style Tai Ji Chuan coaches. I learned Wu Tai Ji Chuan 16 from teacher Liu Chongyang. So far, I have learned a few tricks, and I am still far from learning. To really learn to learn Tai Ji Chuan well requires long-term and patient study. When I first came into contact with Wu Tai Ji Chuan, I already felt the benefits of learning from Tai Ji Chuan. We are retired and have time to travel, see the great mountains and rivers of the great motherland and enjoy the beautiful scenery around us. But this requires good physical support to achieve. Good health will take us across Qian Shan, but bad health will drag us down. Doing Tai Ji Chuan early not only enriches life, but also keeps fit. If you can calm down, please think about it. Is there really no sport in the world that can regulate people's health like Tai Ji Chuan? Tai Ji Chuan has become the sport with the largest number of participants in the country.
? Although I have been studying Tai Ji Chuan for a short time, I have gained a lot of experience and insights: to practice Tai Ji Chuan, you need to stand up straight, tuck in your abdomen and hold your chest, and the moves show a peaceful and rounded effect, reflecting a natural state. Heavy shoulders and elbows are signs of full confidence and natural relaxation. Kneeling is a vivid expression of the style of combining rigidity with softness, and all the brushwork and styles reflect the profound connotation of China culture.
? Through practice, I realize that beginners in Tai Ji Chuan can't aim too high and be eager to achieve success. Tai Ji Chuan is like climbing a cliff, the initial stage is the hardest, but as long as you climb to the top of the cliff, there is almost a Ma Pingchuan behind you. Tai Ji Chuan needs a process from beginning training to basic mastery.
Wu-style Tai Ji Chuan is one of the most popular Tai Ji Chuan species. Wu-style Tai Ji Chuan pays more attention to "meditation, internal and external relaxation, moving qi with the heart, moving the body with qi, integrating form and spirit, and relying on emotion" when practicing Tai Ji Chuan. Wu-style Tai Ji Chuan is more suitable for the elderly than other kinds of boxing. We have been studying Wu-style Tai Ji Chuan 16 for nine days. * * We have learned nine tricks: preparing, starting, pulling the sparrow's tail, splitting the wild horse's mane, shuttling between the jade girl and the tiger, hitting the tiger from left to right, piercing the ears with two peaks, holding the knees and stepping, and driving the monkey upside down and flying obliquely. Compared with the simple Tai Ji Chuan 24 style, Wu Tai Ji Chuan is slower and lighter, and pays more attention to movement and breathing. I just learned a few tricks and fell in love with the biography of Wu Taiji.
Teacher Liu Chongyang repeatedly stressed that learning Wu-style Tai Ji Chuan should know how to adjust one's mind, qi and body. We should grasp nine essentials: quietness, cohesion, consistency, smoothness, sinking, smoothness, looseness, integrity and cleanness.
? Now, in the process of learning Wu-style Tai Ji Chuan 16 from Professor Liu Chongyang, the training efficiency is improved through the careful guidance of Teacher Liu, and the process of learning Wu-style Tai Ji Chuan is very fast. To really learn and practice Tai Ji Chuan well, we need to make great efforts, work hard for a long time, persevere, and make more efforts in the two links of "enlightenment" and "practice", and learn while practicing, and then practice when you understand.
? It is a bit difficult for me to learn everything from scratch because of my limited academic qualifications and lack of foundation. I want to write down a lot of Tai Ji Chuan's theories, tricks, principles and so on. Then tell me Tai Ji Chuan first, and then slowly understand and digest.
I'm glad to learn from Taiji Chuan this time. It's a good opportunity. Pingli County Senior Sports Association attaches great importance to the publicity and popularization of Tai Ji Chuan Sports, which is widely promoted throughout the county. The leaders of Tai Ji Chuan Association of Changli Outdoor Sports Association attach great importance to it, actively do a good job in organization and service, arrange to participate in various training courses, provide materials for learning Tai Ji Chuan, and invite Mr. Tai Ji Chuan to equip each student with clothes to practice Tai Ji Chuan, thus creating various conditions. These external environment and conditions ensure that other members and I can study Tai Ji Chuan with peace of mind.