Tai Ji Chuan adopted the Yin-Yang theory of China's classical materialist philosophy, demanding that "quietness moves, quietness moves", "softness is rigidity, and friction swings", with the ultimate goal of opening and closing the virtual and the real, with light and heavy, slow and fast.
Tai Ji Chuan's movements are arc-shaped, spiral and turning, and consciousness finally guides the whole body's blood circulation; Internal strength originates from the abdomen, takes the spine as the axis, and transforms into kidney in the lumbar space. By rotating the waist and spine, the upward rotation is wrist to arm, and the downward rotation is ankle to leg, and the winding operation reaches "four tips" (hands and toes). The slight visceral self-massage exercise adopts the basic theory of "meridian theory" of traditional Chinese medicine and has the function of "communicating exterior and interior and running qi and blood"
When practicing Tai Ji Chuan, consciousness, movement and breathing are coordinated at the same time, and the integrity and internal and external unity of practice methods become the characteristics of Tai Ji Chuan.
When we say that Tai Ji Chuan is one of the precious cultural heritages of the nation, we mean that it is the synthesis and mastery of China's outstanding achievements in boxing, health preservation, breathing, meridian theory, classical materialism philosophy and so on.
Tracing back to the origin of Taiji Chuan, we can't help but start with Qi Jiguang (1528- 1587) who organized Ming workers and civilians.
China has a long history of martial arts. Due to the large population, in the Ming Dynasty, there were many kinds of boxing, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. In order to train the foot soldiers' skills, every general Qi Jiguang learned 32 postures from 16 well-known folk boxing methods, and knitted gloves, which are called the 32 potentials in the Boxing Classic, as the "source of martial arts" for soldiers to practice swords, guns, swords, sticks and other weapons. He studied boxing as far as Song Taizu (Zhao Kuangyin, 927-976). Long fists and short strokes, combining rigidity with softness, not sticking to one pattern, eliminating weeds and preserving essence. The ways of attack and defense are kicking, hitting, hugging and throwing. Its boxing method is "overwhelming, winning when facing the enemy, and changing endlessly", which greatly corrects the disadvantages of popular "flowery" and flashy routines for people to watch, and has become a martial arts school that meets the needs of the times from the masses.
As far as the existing Wushu historical materials are concerned, Qi Jiguang is an outstanding figure in studying and sorting out folk Wushu. His purpose was to serve the politics at that time, to train foot soldiers to master the martial arts of "adversity and pragmatism", to become a strong force, to seize the enemy of Nanping and to defend the country of the north. His idea that martial arts should serve the military and military should serve politics is different from that of two other famous anti-Japanese soldiers. -1580) and Tang Shunzhi (1507- 1560) have the same ambition. Qi Jiguang not only learned the martial arts of "being practical in the cold" with an open mind, but also arranged various boxing methods, and also learned the stick method and the marksmanship. His spirit of forging ahead, not sticking to the ancient ways and making bold innovations has played a great role in inheriting, studying and sorting out Wushu routines for future generations.
According to the analysis and research of a large number of historical materials, it was Chen who studied and sorted out various boxing methods at that time in the late Ming Dynasty and created a new school in Tai Ji Chuan. Chen was born in a small bureaucratic family in Chenjiagou, wen county. According to Chen's genealogy, Chen is human. He also played in the imperial court, Chen Jiagou Chen IX; Grandpa Sigui, a historian in Didao County, Shaanxi Province, was promoted to Shandong Deputy Ambassador in the first year of Wanli. Yi Ding's Wang Qian brothers. Before the king, he was also called the king. He was born with a monument.
Chen's martial arts, "Chen Family Tree" publicly records: "As a famous military commander in Shandong, ... the founder of Chen Yihe's sword and gun."
Jia nian (1644) lived in seclusion before and after the collapse of the Ming dynasty, entertaining himself with fists and worshiping his grandchildren. In the first half of his legacy, he said, "Alas, in those days, I was persevering and persevering, and ... I stumbled several times!" Blessed in vain! I'm dying of old age now, and there's only one roll of Huang Ting left. Make a fist when you are bored, plow when your heart comes, and teach a few disciples and grandchildren in your spare time to make Jackie Chan a tiger. ..... "According to" Chen Quan Machinery Spectrum ",the gloves made by Chen are Tai Ji Chuan (13 potential) No.5, Changquan No.180 potential No.1 (potential name is not detailed), cannon hammer No.1 and so on. Qi Jiguang (Boxing Classics) has only thirty-two potential, which was absorbed by twenty-nine potential.
Chen is an outstanding figure in sorting out folk martial arts after Qi Jiguang. He has more contacts with martial artists, which is conducive to getting to know the generals and inheriting innovation.
Qi Jiguang was transferred to the north after successfully fighting the Japanese invaders in the south. In the second year of the Ming Dynasty (1568), "Prime Minister Ji, Chang and Liao Bao trained and controlled four towns, all of which were governors" (see Chronicle of Qi Shaobao Deceiving Qi). It was not until 1583 that Guangdong Town was transferred. "History of Ming Dynasty" said: "After 16 years in the town, Guang Guang was preparing to repair and feasting on the thistle gate, and successors followed suit, which lasted for decades."
Chen was obviously influenced by the Qi family in the arrangement of martial arts routines. Qi's "Boxing Classic" is a collection of 16 kinds of boxing techniques from ancient times to modern times. It is the "source of martial arts" for soldiers to practice. Chen got as many as twenty-nine kinds of potential, and thirty-two kinds of potential were compiled into Tai Ji Chuan routine (note 1) and boxing classics, which began with "being lazy in tying clothes" (note 2). Chen's glove seven paths also started with "being lazy in tying clothes", and made a fist score (that is, another name for fist style) and a general song of fist classics, and also extracted words from Qi's fist classics. Therefore, it can be said that Tai Ji Chuan's fabrication is based on the thirty-two potential of boxing classics. As for absorbing some from other kinds of boxing, although there is no textual research, it can be inferred from the potential names of seven sets of boxing that there are many kinds of boxing. The methods of pushing hands with both hands and sticking guns with both hands are not recorded in martial arts works such as Yu, Qi Jiguang, Cheng Zhongdou, He and Mao. There is no such training method in the existing boxing. This is Chen's original competitive method, which solves the problem of practicing unarmed combat skills and improving shooting skills without protective gear. This is also a creative achievement in the history of China Wushu.
Chen's first two sentences in The General Song of Boxing Classics: "I don't know how to bend and stretch, but it depends on winding" ("leaning" means that two people lean against each other with their arms, using "squeezing and pressing" as the basic principle of technical training, and sticking it to lead it to white "), which roughly explains Wang Zongyue's" pushing hand "in179/kloc-0. The 16th Chen family of Chenjiagou (1849- 1929) expounded the boxing experience accumulated in the past dynasties, and in the 13th year, he wrote Illustrated Notes on Chen Tai Ji Chuan. In the illustration, he elaborated his reasoning method step by step, explained the boxing with Yi-ology, and combined with the meridian theory. Its boxing method is based on the principle of combining rigidity with softness, alternating speed, and mutual change of storage and development, which runs through the core function of silk winding strength and focuses on internal strength. These classic Tai Ji Chuan papers have become the guiding theory for practicing Tai Ji Chuan and pushing hands.