Tai Chi Chuan

Tai Chi Chuan is a kind of high-level human culture which combines Han nationality’s dialectical theoretical thinking, martial arts, art, traditional Chinese medical science and so on. Its fist positions couple hardness with softness, are full of eastern philosophy. Tai Chi is an important concept of the history of Chinese culture in order to explain the origin of the world. And Tai Chi Chuan is based on the idea of Tai Chi, requires the practicers to pay concentration on their breath and mind.

At the turning of Yuan and Ming dynasty, a Taoist monk of Wudang named Zhang Sanfeng set a precedent of internal school boxing and the boxing was evolved into the ‘Tai Chi thirteen postures’, which is the prototype of Wudang Tai Chi Chuan Tai chi t-shirts. In the middle of the 17th century, Chen Wangting (1580–1660), a stuntman from Chenjiagou of Henan province, combined Wudang Tai Chi with the boxing inherited from his forebears. The combination of two kinds of fist positions couple hardness with softness, with the idea of external and internal cultivation. Chen named it Chen-style Tai Chi Chuan.

In the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, Yang Luchan (1799–1872), an ordinary wage earner of a traditional Chinese medicine store, Zhonghetang, got a rare opportunity to work in Chenjiagou——the birthplace of Chen-style Tai Chi Chuan. Yang caught the sight that Chen Changxing, one of the inheritors of Chen-style Tai Chi Chuan, was teaching Tai Chi Chuan to his students Tai chi t-shirts. With great admiration, Yang watched the Tai Chi Chuan taught by Chen and learnt it by heart secretly. He had actually made some accomplishment in the course of time. But it finally came to light by Chen. To Yang’s surprise, Chen allowed him to study Tai Chi Chuan and even taught him instead of punish him. After Yang’s study in Tai Chi Chuan, he went to Beijing and simplified the fist position. His son and grandson modified it and named it Yang-style Tai Chi Chuan. Its postures have slow, steady, expansive and soft movements suitable for general practitioners, so that it is widely practiced nowadays. In addition, the schools of Tai Chi Chuan also included Wu-style, Zhao-style, Sun-style, and so on.

By now, Tai Chi Chuan has been reported that it is useful in treating a number of human ailments, and is supported by a number of associations, including the National Parkinson Foundation and Diabetes Australia Feiyue Shoes Australia. Especially the restorative Tai Chi Chuan, it combines three elements: Qi, essence and spirit. It can cure disease. Fitness, self-cultivation, enlightenment wisdom, inspire potentiality, maintain health, improve quality and improve the quality of life.
The founding of new China pushed the development of Tai Chi Chuan. It has developed since seven hundred years ago, becoming a symbol of eastern culture. It is one of the important bridge of Eastern culture and Western culture. It is also the most popular martial arts and fitness activities, which has three hundred million practicers. It is of great significance to inherit and protect our Tai Chi Chuan.

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