Of course Tai Chi is great!
Tai Chi is a type of Chinese martial arts, classified as internal martial arts. After 1949, it was uniformly adapted by the National Sports Commission for use in gymnastics, performances, and sports competitions for physical fitness. After China's reform and opening up, it was partially restored to its original appearance; thus it was further divided into Tai Chi for martial arts competitions, Tai Chi for gymnastics, and Tai Chi Push Hands. There are many traditional Tai Chi schools. Common Tai Chi schools include Chen, Yang, Wu, Wu,
Sun, Zhaobao, Wudang and other schools. Each school has inheritance relationship, learns from each other, and also has its own The characteristics are like a hundred flowers blooming. Because Tai Chi is a type of boxing formed in modern times, with many schools and a broad mass base, it is a very vital type of Chinese martial arts.
Tai Chi is a perfect combination of the dialectical theoretical thinking of the Chinese nation with martial arts, art, guidance, traditional Chinese medicine, etc. It takes the Tai Chi and Yin-Yang dialectical concepts in traditional Chinese Confucian and Taoist philosophy as its core ideas and integrates It integrates multiple functions such as maintaining one's temperament, strengthening one's body, fighting and fighting, etc. It is a high-level human body culture. As a form of exercise full of Eastern inclusive concepts, its practitioners focus on the exercise of mind, energy, form and spirit, which is very in line with the physiological and psychological requirements of the human body. It is of great benefit to the physical and mental health of individual human beings and the harmony of human groups. It plays an extremely important role in promoting.
In the mid-17th century, Chen Wangting of Chenjiagou, Wen County, Henan Province, based on the boxing skills passed down from his family, absorbed the strengths of other martial arts schools, integrated the ideas of Yi Xue, traditional Chinese medicine and other ideas, and created a set of yin and yang opening and closing, strong and soft movements. , a new boxing method that combines internal and external training, named Chen Style Tai Chi.
Tai Chi has been passed down from generation to generation in Chenjiagou. Since the 14th generation Chen Changxing, it began to spread to the outside world. Later, it gradually derived from Yang style, Wu style, Wu style, Sun style, He style and other schools. .
Tai Chi is one of the most distinctive and representative philosophical thoughts in ancient China. Tai Chi is based on the concept of yin and yang in Tai Chi. It uses the mind to control the whole body, relaxes in silence, uses the mind to guide the qi, and uses the qi to promote the form. Repeated practice can lead to a state of masterful movement of Tai Chi, and the movement of Tai Chi into nothingness, to achieve the purpose of cultivating one's moral character, cultivating one's sentiments, strengthening one's body, and prolonging one's life.
Taijiquan’s implicit, restrained, continuous, soft, slow, and flowing boxing style gradually brings the practitioner’s mind, energy, form, and spirit to the highest state of integration, and its influence on The requirements of martial arts cultivation also enable practitioners to improve their own quality while strengthening their physical fitness, and enhance the harmony and harmony between man and nature, man and society. At the same time, Tai Chi does not exclude the training of physical fitness. It emphasizes the combination of hardness and softness, rather than performances and aerobics that are only soft but without hardness.
The basic content of Tai Chi includes Tai Chi Yin and Yang health theory, Tai Chi boxing routines, Tai Chi equipment routines, Tai Chi push hands and Tai Chi auxiliary training methods. Its boxing routines include Dajia Yilu, Erluo, Xiaojia Yiyi, and Erluo. The weapon routines include single sword, double sword, single sword, double sword, single mace, double mace, spear, big pole and Qinglong Yan (yan) moon sword, etc.
Tai Chi, a wonderful Chinese martial art, has been widely praised by people all over the world. Since the 1980s, governments at all levels and the general public have become increasingly aware of the protection of Tai Chi, an ancient cultural system. Governments at all levels have successively formulated protective measures. The birthplace of Tai Chi has held 11 international Tai Chi exchange conferences. Inheritors and folk heritage organizations have also stepped up their efforts in in-depth promotion. In May 2006, Tai Chi was announced by the Chinese government as one of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
As Tai Chi has gradually become a cultural link connecting different races, nationalities, languages, and countries, and has become an important carrier of Chinese cultural exchanges and dissemination with the outside world, in order to further inherit and promote Tai Chi culture, Wen The county people's government hired a domestic first-class design unit to comprehensively plan the Chenjiagou Cultural Tourism Area. According to the design of the five functional areas of inheritance, promotion, health preservation, kung fu, and industry, the construction includes a Tai Chi exhibition base, an education and training base, a leisure vacation base, The Chenjiagou World Tai Chi Cultural Center, which includes a cultural product base and a research and communication base, carries out all-round and multi-level excavation, organization and promotion of Tai Chi, and paints a beautiful blueprint for Chenjiagou World Tai Chi Cultural Holy Land. Henan Cultural Investment Group and other units have already settled in and started building beautiful Chenjiagou.
Tai Chi is unique in martial arts and has distinctive characteristics.
It requires calmness to stop, softness to overcome hardness, avoidance of reality and use of strength to exert force, and advocates that everything should be based on the objective, live according to others, and stagnate according to oneself. "The enemy has not moved before you move first", "the last attack comes first", introduce the opponent to make him lose weight, or disperse the opponent's strength, take advantage of the weakness, and fight back with all his strength. This martial art principle of Tai Chi is reflected in push hands training and routine movement essentials. It can not only train people's physical qualities such as reaction ability, strength and speed, but also has very important significance in offensive and defensive combat training.
Taijiquan martial arts all follow the principle of yin and yang, with "inducing transformation and combining hair" as the main martial arts process. When performing a skill, Ting Jin senses the size and direction of the opponent's force, "follows the trend and changes its path", diverts the force from the future, and then uses the force to exert force.
The eight types of force in Tai Chi: push (used to dissolve or combine force to send people away), stroke (used to use force to attract people backwards), squeeze (external force to the lower body), press (to apply force to the lower body) The external pressing force of the upper plate, or a reverse joint holding method), Cai (smooth force to combine the opponent's force, or a holding method), Su (using the side pressing force to destroy the opponent's balance), elbow (hitting the person with the tip of the elbow) ), rely on (hitting people hard from front to back with your shoulders). Tai Chi is a kind of fighting technique. Its characteristics: "use softness to overcome hardness, use stillness to wait for movement, use roundness to straighten, use small to defeat big, use weak to defeat strong".
Tai Chi is a comprehensive systematic project and a comprehensive discipline with traditional cultural characteristics of the Han nationality. It involves issues related to people and society, people and nature, and the human body itself, including classical literature Physics, health science, medicine, martial arts, physiology, psychology, sports biomechanics, etc., embody the cosmology, life outlook, moral outlook, life outlook and competitive outlook of Eastern literature.
Tai Chi has gentle movements and slow speed, and the boxing styles are not difficult to learn. Moreover, the high or low posture and the amount of exercise can be different according to the individual's physique, and can be adapted to different ages and physiques. The needs of the elderly are not exclusive to the old and the weak. Whether it is theoretical research or personal practice, whether it is improving skills and kung fu, or prolonging life and maintaining health, whether individuals are seeking to improve themselves in life, they can participate in Tai Chi and obtain their respective needs.
Tai Chi’s movement characteristics of looseness, smoothness, smoothness, and effortlessness can not only eliminate the original clumsiness and stiffness of the practitioners, but also avoid damage to muscles, joints, ligaments and other organs. sex. It can not only change people's exertion habits and instincts, but also avoid the possibility of chest tightness, tension, and obstruction of Qi and blood caused by improper exertion and improper breathing.