The story of Tai Chi is thought to start with San - feng, who was often regarded as a mythical monk in my thought and Taoism tradition, which was living around 1368. He is believed to blend his own observations and strategic thinking, including existing health exercises, styles and natural animal movements, into a composition that we later call Tai Chi. Whether the long San-feng achieved it is obvious that many of these complementary precursor elements have flowed into Chinese culture for a long time, almost waiting for them to come together - all works There is a lot of candidates for systematization to pull, no one is responsible - rather sometimes many people may interact with the work of the premises and add it - This includes Jang Seong-ji, Wang Tung Yue,
But the historical record, in the 1600's, a retired Chinese military officer named Chen Wangting (the 9th generation member of the Chen family) gathered the whole package under the label of Tai Chi Chuan umbrella important It is clear that it was a person. At that time, the family has already derived from the family legendary Chen Zhen Tianyi who lived in the late 1300s, bought that style from Shanxi to Henan when the family moved there, with a strong martial arts reputation and his successful style (Shanxi province is also the traditional origin of both Bagua Zhang and Xingyi Chuan). The village in this village is quite close to the Shaolin monastery, so maybe you have a relationship with Shaolin.
Chen Wangting has been evaluated as having created numerous Tai Chi Chuan forms, and is now being practiced by family / village members that are developed as Laojia forms. The style of the new Tai Chi he created, a section of Chuan Ching (Boxing Classics) of his military handbook and an idea from Ganghwa - master of martial arts from the 36 attitudes explained by generous Chejgwan explainers and existing Integrated by Chen Wangting from family style Chen Wangting martial artist / prisoner / friend - in addition to five routines of Tai Chi, it will be 108 long Long Fist and Cannon Fist format. He is also believed to not only emphasize slowly balancing mental / physical relaxation, motivation training, fast movements and many other aspects, but also to create push hand drills and silk reels .
The work of Chen Wangting and the work of other people who followed it focused primarily on martial arts, but thought and practice of traditional Chinese medicine such as I-Ching, Taoism thought and health practice from Daoyin and Qi, Of course with Chi's concept and chi flow ideas, along with a lot of knowledge about the anatomy and important points of the. In the same way, Tai Chi has already been revealed in martial arts around the world, but in Taijiquan it gives a new use, providing a unique opportunity to generate force during use and use, chin nut - It seems that Joint lock was integrated.
In this period, the defense of individuals and families is the top priority, and it is considered to be the era when cruelty was common. For example, members of Chen family are thought to be involved in the protection of customs, caravans and personnel. As a result, the practitioner at that time seems to have been interested in handling atrocities as efficiently as possible. And taking Chen Wangting as an example, it was a combatant capable of looking for a better way to handle the invasion. In addition, many experienced combatants are likely to be able to continue their abilities to the elderly and to be possible from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine experience. Therefore, cause Tai Chi and Tai Chi twin faces - application of health and martial arts. Likewise, Taoism 's lineage has brought intellectual approaches to observing and thinking the world in a practical and philosophical manner, enabling a thoughtful way to approach the development of martial arts.
This martial artistic / healthy dichotomy is exemplified in the Yang style story derived from Yang Lucian, who is said to have learned Chen's style secretly while living in the village in the early 1800's I have demonstrated his ability to various families.
When Lang Shan was taught by Chen Changxing, it was the first outsider to learn the original shape known as Laosia. After practicing for many years, he departed from the village of Chen, survived all over China and was undefeated. Historically, he went to Beijing as a leader of the Emperor 's security guards and taught Tai Chi to his family. His form seems to have branched his figure through his descendants, his grandson Yang Chen Fu - wanting to widely disseminate Tai Chi's interests to improve national health - today the most It is a commonly known style.
I trained with my granddaughter Mai Lee Yang of Yang Li Fu in Hong Kong but she was still watching Tai Chi practice as a martial art - surely that shape still has many aspects that the military worth yet Yang Chen Fu himself and perhaps some close students continued the more martial arts version of the form. It was indeed my own experience and contributed greatly to the effectiveness and application of karate I was practicing at the time. However, most of today's Yang style is practiced mainly for health, at least in the West, Tai Chi is clearly seen in mainstream culture as almost all health related. So, from Yang Luchan to the modern global Yang style (recent "The Global" Tai Chi style), we saw a complete conversion in about 200 years.
Many Yan style spin-offs took place over time. It was originally from Chen Man Ching who was trained under Yang Chen Fu and then went to the United States where his appearance was very soft and popular.
Yang style This expansion and divergence of Tai Chi was done around the Beijing focus, but the original Chen style itself was changing. In particular, Chen Chang-Xing 14 and Yang Lu Shan teacher taught me. form. At the same time, it is said that Chen Youben of 14 generations also invented a new small frame format called Xiao-jia. Following this, although it was not published by 1932, Chen Xin, a member of the 16th generation who wrote the first book of Xiao Style's "Commentary on Chen Family Tai Chi," continued. From a personal point of view, looking at this book, Tai Chi is studied deeply and studied, I-Ching also explains how the world works, fundamental to develop Chi's theory An intellectual model that has promoted physical style about ideas.
Later in the 1800s and early 1900s, at the same time as Yang Chen Fu, Chen Fake 17th generation also moved to Beijing from Chen village as an instructor, gained an important reputation as a fighter plane and developed the current one It is known as Chen Xinjia form.
From this, there are many other family derivatives of Chen and Yang's mix, including Wu, Wu (Hao) style, day style - these are generally considered Big 5 and often know Taka, they were trained with a group of trainers trained or connected to each other.
Kure's style is derived from Quan You, a leading student of Yang Luchan and his son Yang Pan Hou, a Wu family style derived from Quan You You's son Wu Jianquan.
The style of (old) Wu comes from Wu Yiang (1812-1880), after studying with Yang Luuchan for many years, studied in Chen's village for 3 months under Chen Ching-ping. His family style was derived from this experience and is often referred to as Hao style after Hao Wei Zhen, the successor to the second generation. Li I-yu, the successor of the first generation, is still forming his own style differentiated as Li style.
Hao Wei Zhen met Tai Chi and went to Sun Lu-tang, Sun Lu-tang is an experienced practitioner of Xingyi and many other martial art forms. Sun Lu Tang was known as a skilled combatant who followed Tai Chi to create his own solar style.
I learned Sun style from Sun Jian Yun, the daughter of Sun Lu Tang of Beijing Renmin University. She tells her father strongly, and the form was mainly drawn with a martial artistic intention. I was impressed with Sun 's compactness and obvious short - range applications. In the discussion with one of Madam Sang's students, important points of acupuncture and moxibustion became clear in addition to Tai Chi.
The center of Tai Chi is brought up for 200 years by the practitioner of Chen village, and there is there in the past 200 years before Cong to Yang, Wu, Ha, and the days are linked to each other. More variants.
Professor Li Deyin from Beijing University has a lot of competitions both at home and abroad around the world and has much involvement in fields that have developed as Tai Chi sports side. This includes formats, conservation expressions, and push hands. The Tai Chi sports form is judged in visual techniques and competition based rules and expert judges give points for the observed skills. College training is often like gymnastics / music, but students first learn a lot of "hard" kung fu styles, then learn Xingi, Bagua, Tai Chi. I am convinced that understanding of the background military force is held in the university. Certainly, a teacher like Wang Yang Ji who came out of this system can raise the level of skill of martial arts.
Tai Chi in the park in China seems to be incorporated into social closely related health and leisure activities such as religious meetings, stretching, running, ballroom dance, rock 'n' roll and so on together with Qi Gong. Men and women often take up when they approach retirement age, or when there are health problems such as arthritis. Typically, these practitioners spend hours more in the morning exercise, and 60, 70, 80 are often taught to share skills.
The word of Tai Chi is likely to have traveled to the west from the early 1900s by travelers who bought understanding - it is highly likely that they went to the west - sadly, there are few, sometimes their understanding is limited and they stay It was generally possible to do. They made valuable fundamental work and created visibility, and when I started training in martial arts in 1970, Tai Chi was known in the West and several books became available. In London, not only the UK but also excellent teaching methods were not popular. Later I was introduced to Yang style by Mr. Hiroyasu Kanazawa, a karate teacher who studied 24-step Young style in Japan from a Chinese teacher in exchange for Karate Professor.
The worldwide popularization of Tai Chi was promoted by the emigration of teachers from China after the Communist revolution again after the Second World War and the Cultural Revolution. These teachers gain the insight of the rest of the world with the first taste of genuine homemade Chinese martial arts. Recently, it includes those who urged the Chinese government to head west to promote Chinese martial arts and culture in general.
Migration teachers include Chu King-hung who came to London from Hong Kong and was teaching Yang style in the tradition of Yang Chen Fu and Chen family seven of Chen world traveling all over the world as ambassador of Chen Style It includes the head of the world.
In recent years, organizations that focused on Tai Chi successfully promoted Tai Chi's sports side in both China and the world, securing the competitive form and many varieties became prominent , Counteracting health / meditation aspects that are widely seen in general media.
As a result, many variations of Tai Chi become very popular all over the world, each tradition continues to grow, "spin off" the new sprouts. In recent years sometimes the most important development is sometimes the dramatic growth of the oldest style of whole Chen style as a result of Chen Xiao Hua (Chen Fake 17th generation grandchild) efforts, the other three in the quarter are Chen Yun , "Attendees of the four Buddha warriors" from Chen Zhenglei, Wang Xian and Zhu Tiancai. These Chen village teachers who have cultivated the traditional martial arts of Tai Chi Chuan for a long time return to their roots and give them the opportunity to fully understand the value of the style that is true to the value of the core I will. Synthesis.
These travelers and immigrant teachers sown the establishment of "Tai Chi" culture in the west. It is currently being studied in the UK and other regional Chinese teachers and trained, and like China Karel (Karel) and Eva Koskuba (Eva Koskuba) who wish to further advance training in China, It is in.
At least in the UK, Tai Chi has gained a high reputation as a "brand" in the alternative health & leisure market, which is increasingly popular as "rapper" of stress relief / health / exercise habit classes. As a result, you can see the repetition of established martial arts / health / sports balance seen elsewhere in the martial arts around the world. Tai Chi's martial arts, which once contained all aspects of a field, now fragmented into various aspects with its own supporters, lines and history, reflecting the globalization process seen elsewhere Yes.
We can see the history of Tai Chi as a historical "road" or "way" of development in the context of ideas derived from philosophical thinking of early natural science and health / medical practice, Practical battle style - reinforced by the need of warriors who are hurt for repair, healthy ones strengthen the body and sometimes crosslink to strengthen the ability. These practical ideas, synthesized by relatively few people in a relatively short period of time, are more intricate and more sophisticated because many people were intelligent thinkers, directly external battle style Exceeded. Also, because you can see the historically common road from warrior to healer, practices such as battle style and contributing health / philosophy are closely intertwined, so it is actually difficult to distinguish them There are cases. This road has continuously developed a powerful battle art that spans 400 years and 19 generations. However, in the process of globalization of the 20th century, it turned out that the practitioner was pursuing Tai Chi for other purposes away from its original origin. In other words, after art purchases other disciplines together,.
So what is the future of Tai Chi? - Chen Xiang and Chen Xiaowang, a teacher of the direct student of the world, will be able to keep the true tradition of traditional art. Culture happens.
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The role of other internal art in understanding the history and development of Tai Chi - Collaborative research by Xingyi, Bagua, Yiquan
In understanding the history and development of Tai Chi, it is useful to see the parallel paths of other internal arts of Xingyi, Bagua, Yiquan. In the case of Xingyi, early reliable evidence is said to originate from Shanxi province Ji Long Feng (early 1600s), but the historical figure of General Yue Fei (1103-1142) and the roots of the early 100's Have. Chen Family) used spears and his expertise to develop "Heart Mind Six Harmony" boxing for the protection of the era of peace. This concept uses a connection between the mind and the body to develop a style that exceeds what is possible only by the body. This is similar to the intention training that Mr. Chen believes. In fact, Xing Yi Quan was translated as "mind - body boxing" alternately with "form - intent boxing", originally called "Heart Mind Six Harmonies Boxing". Like Chen Wangting, Ji Long Feng also lived in the early 1600s, his style shared several ideas such as the six harmony and the concept of Kai, clearly from the same social / philosophical environment Although it came out, the characteristics around expression of power and the idea of traditional martial arts. Since Xingyi has also spread geographically, I have been diversifying the style of the style, but strictly like the style itself it was more linear to keep the tradition of martial arts.
Meanwhile, Baguazhang also goes back to Dong Hai Chuan (Chen Changxing and Yang Luchan and contemporary ones) born in the mid 1800s. Ancestral strains can also be traced to Shanxi province - it was said that they learned their style from Taoist monks Dong Meng - Lin. Taoist input is most obvious in the circle where Taigo Quan Zhen sect denomination meditation practice and the use of 8 Trigram Bagua from I-Ching walk as an intellectual structural concept for style. Thus, the spiritual intention (mantra) of training is defined. Bagua also experienced a geographical spread, but I am watching that like the Xingyi, I am primarily momentuming.
Yiquan comes from Xing Yi Quan strain of Xing Yi Quan trained creator Wang Xiangzhai (1890-1963) and has been studying martial arts for many years. This led to simplify the training process by removing what he regarded as an unnecessary physical form and focusing more on spiritual training as well as simple qigong. He removed "xing" (form) from the name Xing Yi Quan and called Yi Quan where Yi returns to Mind or Intent. This phenomenon seems to be one of the elements defining the artistic development, and the definition of these arts. Use of mind in training to develop physical abilities and skills.
