Xu Huaiqing's Notes on Taiji Research
Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism are the three most influential traditional cultures in China, but their roots are the unity of the three religions and the same origin. Therefore, the root of China culture is neither Taoism nor Confucianism, and Buddhism is obviously introduced and grafted from abroad. On the basis of Taoism and Confucianism, there are Yi studies. At the beginning of Yi-ology, it was Fuxi Taiji Gua, whose original intention and core was Taiji culture. Therefore, it is obvious and not difficult to understand that several emperors, schools of thought contend, three religions and nine streams, and cultures in various fields after Fuxi all have the genes, veins and marks of Taiji culture. Therefore, the root, source and vein of China culture is Tai Chi culture, which should be well documented and based on historical facts, which is beyond doubt and well known.
Taiji culture can be said to be a household name for modern people, and it is well known to women and children. This is due to the cultural opening-up in the past 30 years and the sudden emergence of Tai Ji Chuan. However, boxers must take martial arts as their way and aim, which belongs to the category of martial arts. It is easy to use the banner of culture, but it must be beyond their power. From this, the cognition of Taiji culture is neither fish nor fowl, which can be described as varied and full of flowers, which is really a bit different.
Here, based on the sense of responsibility for traditional culture and the original intention of the healthy development of Taiji culture, we explore and clarify the root causes of the four images of Taiji culture.
One? Taiji culture is not like boxing.
Taiji culture has a long history and deep roots in the cultural history of China. Fu's Eight Diagrams illustrates a complete and systematic view of Taiji. Later generations enriched and perfected the revelation of Tai Chi from Yi-ology, Tai Chi Daoism, Tai Chi Neo-Confucianism and modern science. The development of Taiji culture can be said to be in the same strain for 8,000 years. As the ancients said: everything is Artest's gas, and all ages are Artest's gas.
It stands to reason that Tai Ji Chuan is the product of Taiji culture, or it should be an exaggeration to say that it is a wonderful flower in the hundred gardens of Taiji culture, which is why Tai Ji Chuan used Taiji at the beginning of his creation. But now the boxers call Tai Ji Chuan Tai Chi, and interpret Tai Ji Chuan's drill and application as Tai Chi culture, which is a bit like putting green onions in your nose, or fishing for fame, which is neither fish nor fowl. In fact, boxers know very well that Tai Ji Chuan, as a kind of boxing or event in Wushu, has only been established for hundreds of years, which is incomparable with the long history of Taiji culture, let alone in the same breath. At the beginning of the creation of boxing and later in the growth of Tai Ji Chuan, the ancients respected Tai Chi culture as their ancestors, without any mistakes or disrespect. However, modern people seem to have no scruples. They openly declare that Tai Ji Chuan is Tai Chi, knowingly and too close to each other. They pieced together the martial arts connotation of Tai Ji Chuan into the original intention of Tai Chi culture, giving people the impression that Tai Chi culture belongs to Tai Ji Chuan, and Tai Ji Chuan ostentatiously replaced the central position and core value of Tai Chi culture. Putting the cart before the horse is a bit childish and ridiculous. A fist, a small martial arts, have such a big bearing capacity? Obviously, there is an ulterior motive, and the intention is obvious. It is to raise the banner of Taiji culture and strengthen its own momentum to confuse people. What to do later is unknown.
The flag of Taijiquan's transmission of Taiji culture has some origins and is tangible. Therefore, it is enough to make clear the characteristics, functions and principles of Tai Ji Chuan. Why drag the knowledge of boxing into the ancient Yi-ology in order to decorate the facade, increase the connotation and make it more real? Tai Ji Chuan has a close relationship with the Book of Changes. From this, we have to say: Taiji culture is not like Yi-ology.
? Two? Taiji culture is not like easy learning.
It seems that it should be the patent of the ancients to analyze the boxing theory with Yijing, because the thinking, semantics and life of the ancients actually created the meaning of Yijing, and it is barely justified to compare the theory of Yijing with its boxing theory. Only Taiji culture and Yi-ology culture have made great progress in the historical process. We can't always cling to the yin-yang culture of the ancients, and openly claim that Tai Ji Chuan developed on the basis of the yin-yang principle of the ancients, which is a bit uneducated. As everyone knows, in the course of thousands of years' development, Yi-ology has long been the enemy of Tai Chi Yi-ology and Yin Yang Yi-ology, and Yi-ology is no longer dominated by pure Tai Chi culture. If we don't understand the relationship with Yin, Taiji culture will obviously be in an awkward position. Regarding the relationship between Taiji culture and Yi-ology, we must first understand that it is not the same as Yin-Yang Yi. In the Book of Changes, the formation and prevalence of the Tao of Yin and Yang (one yin and one yang praised, one yin and one yang called God) is clearly understood and expressed. From the very beginning, Yin-Yang culture tried its best to tamper with, elevate or even replace Taiji culture. The corresponding Taiji culture (see one containing three) and Taiji Daoism (there are two ways in the world) are essentially different from Yin and Yang. In fact, before hundred schools of thought formed the home of Yin and Yang, the way of Yin and Yang was opposed to Taiji culture. This point should be clearly understood in the development of Yi-ology. It is necessary to understand that only Taiyi is the core and essence of Taiji, and only Taiyi is the inheritance and development of Taiji culture. Although Yin and Yang teachers are also suitable for society and life, their level is poor, their culture is naive and even obscene and vulgar, which can't be compared with the way of Tai Chi, the integrity of Tai Chi culture and the sublimity of spirit. It clearly tells us that Taiji culture has long been different from Yi-ology because of the prevalence and interference of Yin-Yang Yi-ology.
? Three? Taiji culture is not like yin and yang.
Here, we focus on Tai Chi culture, not Yin and Yang culture.
Tai Ji Chuan, as a martial arts boxing, must have been in actual combat in the past, and kept out the enemy. In other words, the practical application of the paradox of Yin and Yang in Tai Ji Chuan is inevitable and understandable. The problem is that Taiji Chuan is not named after Yin and Yang, which is well known and should have its profound meaning. Its meaning is clear: Tai Chi culture is not a culture of Yin and Yang, the way of Tai Chi is not a way of Yin and Yang, the study of Tai Chi is not a study of Yin and Yang, and the principle of Tai Chi is not a principle of Yin and Yang; So Tai Ji Chuan can't be called Yin-Yang Boxing. However, for a long time, our so-called masters just dragged Tai Chi culture to Yin and Yang and threw a good Tai Chi biography into the poor basket of Yin and Yang culture. I really don't know whether their intention is to promote Taiji culture or revive Yin and Yang culture. There may be many intentions in this, but it is mainly in several aspects.
First, I really don't know what Tai Chi culture is, but in order to pretend, I used the tricks of Yin and Yang teachers to deceive people. This is called self-deception.
The second is that I am originally a stream of yin and yang, and I take yin and yang as my responsibility. I have long been used to the routines and ways of Yin and Yang, not only Tai Chi culture, but also everything. This is also called habit becomes nature.
The third is to know a little about Tai Chi culture, that is, it is difficult to give up Yin and Yang, just turn a blind eye and follow the trend. This is called muddling along. Of course, there is also a common phenomenon, that is, it seems, it may be that the predecessors used Yin and Yang as Tai Chi, so they simply clung to the Yin and Yang of the ancients.
Let me briefly talk about the difference between Tai Chi and Yin and Yang. Generally speaking, Tai Chi is inseparable from the upward movement of Yin and Yang, because "99" is unified, and Tai Chi culture pays attention to the holistic view, noumenon, origin, uniqueness and the integration of all things. Obviously, Yin and Yang are also included in Taiji Vientiane, and they are still well-behaved, true and orderly. Until the position of Yin and Yang culture in Yi-ology was established, Tai-chi Yi-ology, which was originally centered on Tai-chi culture, was turned upside down by Yin-yang Yi-ology with Yin and Yang as the key link. Specific to the practical application, from the analogy, metaphor, symbol and association of Yin and Yang, Yin and Yang are really no longer the original intention of Yin and Yang, but have become the general representative of two opposites and different attributes of everything. Yin and Yang are the root of each other, interacting and influencing each other, with opposition, confrontation and struggle as the main purpose, completely deviating from the unified concept of Tai Chi as a whole, system and system, and becoming a veritable way and culture of Yin and Yang.
Hermaphrodite, gender opposition, gender differentiation and gender inversion are always entangled around the two sexes. They are not positive and don't talk about the middle way. They have long left the subject of Tai Chi outside the clouds. More importantly, both sexes of yin and harmony are above everything else, and they can be freed from things. They can pull anything, pull anything, set anything, mix anything ... The ancients didn't understand, so they regarded Yin and Yang as gods and mysterious ancestors, which is also the highest treatment for Yin and Yang culture. In fact, the duality of yin and yang, yin not yin, yang not yang, tossing and turning, capricious, is also very suitable for the political needs of class society, so it is also recognized and applied by the upper class, which opens the door for the implementation of yin and yang. For example, people nowadays are used to treating the official feelings as disobedience, prevarication and wrangling. They are completely irresponsible and unwilling to take responsibility. They call it Tai Chi, which is figuratively compared to Tai Ji Chuan. In fact, it is the concrete embodiment of yin and yang culture and concepts in the bones. Obviously, this has a lot to do with the Yin and Yang culture advocated by Tai Ji Chuan.
We have studied Yin and Yang culture, and Tai Chi culture should be very different. Taiji culture is about the whole, system, one, two, three, not three; If you know 10 thousand, you will be safe in three days. Tai Chi stands for one, is used for two, and becomes three. For example, stick to one thing, use two things, use two things to promote one thing, grab two ends in the middle, a fence, three stakes, a hero, three gangs ..... This is the essence of three-dimensional Taiji.
In Taiji culture, the three talents of heaven, earth and man (one inch and three spirits) are the essence of Taiji Dao. Tai Chi Tao, seeing one contains three, three gives birth to everything, everything is Tai Chi, and everything belongs to Tai Chi. Tao is nothingness, the energy of primitive innate truth is the essence of Taiji Tao, and Taiji energy is conservative and eternal. Taoism is natural, and nature is the ontology of Taiji Taoism, which is integrated and unique. Tai Chi Dao has the function of splitting into two, which can generate two instruments, four images, eight diagrams and everything. Divided into two, one is always there, one is one, and the other is not. This is the most basic law of Tai Chi Dao's operation, balance and circulation. Here, Yin and Yang are at best the attributes defined in Taiji, and under the control of Taiji energy, they should be obedient and obedient. But it is people's yin and yang culture that causes confusion between right and wrong in social life.
There is righteousness in the world, which is said to be the spirit of Taiji Haoran, not the evil of Yin and Yang; The way of Tai Chi is true ancestral spirit, and the way of Yin and Yang is strange spirit. Tai Chi is fundamentally different from Yin and Yang.
The so-called positive energy should be the authentic ancestor of Tai Chi's boundless heroism, and should not be tossed and turned, confused, unable to find the north, unable to keep the middle, unable to hold the next one. Yin and only when an idiot, who can jump out of Yin and Yang is the real husband. This is also the core purpose of Taiji culture.
There may be a master of Yin and Yang, who cunningly declared that as long as Yin and Yang are combined into one, Yin and Yang will become Tai Chi. What a fool. Yin and Yang can only become Yin and Yang, because they are different in duality, interdependence and opposition, and they are fundamentally different. Obviously, if Yin and Yang become one, Yin and Yang will cease to exist. What a simple truth, what a clear feeling. How can you not know the flow of yin and yang? How could you not know? You just deliberately confuse the audience to achieve some deliberate sophistry. However, the heroic spirit of Tai Chi will last forever, and an upright man is open and poised and Avenue are inevitable. This is the real norm and norm of people's behavior. Who can control yin and yang, only I am the only real one.
At this point, it goes without saying that Taiji culture is not like Yin and Yang.
Four? Taiji culture is not like infinity.
People in Tai Ji Chuan like to apply infinite theories to boxing. It seems that infinity is more tai chi than Tai Chi, which makes boxing more chaotic.
According to the principle of relativity of things, infinity has poles, that is to say, nothingness and existence are relative, and they are two aspects, two forms and two functions in one thing.
The Tao Te Ching is defined as: doing nothing and being useful. Aspect and use are the same, they are the differences in the name and function of the same thing, they are two parts of a system, and there is no essential difference. In order to find out the root and origin of things, Taiji should be the only ultimate noumenon. Therefore, there can be no more primitive infinity than Tai Chi, so as to confuse the theme positioning of Tai Chi. In the Neo-Confucianism of the Song Dynasty, it was meaningless for the ancients to transcend the infinite Tai Chi and call it "putting their heads on their heads". However, we think that "infinity is Tai Chi, and Tai Chi is also infinity", which is about the infinity of Tai Chi, and infinity is an integral part of Tai Chi. Because, the basic shape of Tai Chi is: infinite existence, extreme return to nothing, cycle, endless life. Therefore, we should define infinity as the infinity of Taiji, which is a manifestation of Taiji, and it is impossible to engage in infinity culture outside Taiji culture, which is not redundant and is not conducive to the integrity and unity of Taiji culture.
Simply put, Taiji culture is not like infinite culture. Taiji culture can only be Taiji culture.
? Five: Make some remarks.
What I'm talking about here are four differences of Taiji culture, mainly about Taiji biography, but not much about boxing. In fact, it is obvious that boxing is not important, it is important to be a man. It should be clear at a glance how useful it is for a person to turn a Tai Chi culture into a four-unlike Tai Chi biography. Of course, we still have to affirm the real Tai Ji Chuan and Taiji culture and upgrade it to the mainstream culture. Otherwise, there is no need to waste your mind and ink and delay the discussion time.
If you are alive, you must be responsible for yourself, and you must figure out what is going on with you. You must never play with Martin and the tide for a while; In fact, wind and tide are well-founded and purposeful. If you can't stand still, you are bound to trip.
Besides, culture is the most basic symbol of being a man. Everyone is reshaping culture, and no one can escape from the scope of society and their own culture. But culture must be elegant, advanced and excellent; There are also vulgar, backward and despicable. What kind of culture you pursue, what kind of person you are; Therefore, we must understand the connotation of culture and then use it for me.
Boxing is no longer a theory. As long as the heart is right, the fist is not evil. It must be understood here that the characteristics of Tai Chi tell us that the real kung fu is not inside the fist, but outside it. What's the use of practicing boxing if the culture of being a man is not correct? This is also the real significance of our repeated demonstration of Taiji culture.