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What are the benefits of children practicing Tai Chi?
Tai Ji Chuan is a unique sport in China. Because of the slow movement, the fitness effect is very good, which is not only suitable for the elderly, but also suitable for children. The following are the benefits I share with my children in practicing Tai Chi. Let's have a look.

Benefits of children practicing Tai Chi

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Some children are particularly naughty and always make a lot of inappropriate behaviors. Parents and friends want them to adjust, but they don't know where to start. Tai Ji Chuan is a sports event with a long history and profound connotation. It pays attention not only to martial arts, but also to martial arts! In the process of practicing Tai Ji Chuan, children can learn a lot about being human and know how to be peaceful and modest.

Exercise willpower

Tai Ji Chuan needs long-term practice. If a child can practice every day for a long time, it will improve his self-control and willpower. In the later life, when encountering bumps and setbacks, he can face them more calmly and will not be easily knocked down by realistic difficulties.

Can strengthen the body

Long-term practice of Tai Ji Chuan can achieve the effect of keeping fit, and make your children healthier and stronger than others, especially their physical coordination ability will be much better than their peers. In addition, Tai Ji Chuan is also a kind of martial arts, which can also achieve the function of practicing martial arts and self-defense.

Enhance physical fitness, promote development and improve immunity.

Teenagers are in the golden stage of development, the structure and function of musculoskeletal ligaments are not perfect, and all aspects of physical fitness need exercise. By practicing Tai Ji Chuan, you can promote the growth of bones, not only exercise the toughness of children's muscles and ligaments, but also improve children's reaction ability, so that all aspects of the body can be well improved, and the body is healthier and less prone to illness.

Enhance physical fitness, promote development and improve immunity.

Teenagers are in the golden stage of development, the structure and function of musculoskeletal ligaments are not perfect, and all aspects of physical fitness need exercise. By practicing Tai Ji Chuan, you can promote the growth of bones, not only exercise the toughness of children's muscles and ligaments, but also improve children's reaction ability, so that all aspects of the body can be well improved, and the body is healthier and less prone to illness.

Cultivate sentiment and stabilize mood

Children are the key period of character formation, and correct guidance at this time is very helpful to cultivate children's character. Tai Ji Chuan is artistic, ornamental and interesting. When practicing Tai Ji Chuan, he pays attention to meditation, composure and introspection. Children themselves are full of curiosity and thirst for knowledge about external things. Therefore, learning from Tai Ji Chuan can not only cultivate children's artistic sentiment, but also stabilize children's temperament, which is very beneficial to improve children's bad habits such as willfulness and impatience.

Relieve learning pressure and stimulate learning interest.

At present, primary and secondary school students are generally under great pressure to study and study. Practicing Tai Ji Chuan can help children to relieve their study pressure in their spare time, cultivate their good qualities of diligence, modesty, research, carefulness, self-confidence and independence, and make them consciously love learning. Children are in a period of intellectual and physical development, which is also the best time for learning. Therefore, learning from Tai Ji Chuan can not only promote children's health, but also help to cultivate their self-disciplined living habits and good ideological quality.

Cultivate traditional culture and learn and practice by yourself.

Tai Ji Chuan is a traditional martial art with a history of 5,000 years, which combines the theory of Yin and Yang of Taoism, the theory of meridians of traditional Chinese medicine and guiding breathing. In the process of practicing Tai Ji Chuan, children can experience the essence of traditional culture, especially the golden mean, the transformation of Yin and Yang, and the goodness of nature as water. These are hard to get only from books. Through practice, we can better understand the contents of the book.

Correct bad posture and improve overall quality level.

Tai Ji Chuan's body posture requires integrity and impartiality. This is helpful for the growth of children's spine. The basic practice of Wushu plays a vital role in developing children's coordination, balance and flexibility.

Help children to establish a good psychological environment from an early age.

Tai Ji Chuan pays attention to meditation, calmness and introspection. Let children be more calm, impatient and careless in their studies and exams. Constant practice can also hone a child's mind. Overcome timidity and laziness, and cultivate perseverance, positivity and never complacency.

Matters needing attention in children's tai chi practice

environmental requirement

It is best to take children to a natural environment with flowers and trees when playing Tai Ji Chuan. This kind of environment has fresh air and low noise, which is conducive to children's concentration.

Body posture requirements

Tai Ji Chuan's posture requires a lot, but as far as children are concerned, we should pay attention to five points.

1, the head needs to be natural and straight, not skewed, and it needs to be relaxed and flexible, so it is refreshing. Don't open your eyes angrily, don't frown and look straight ahead. Shut your mouth and don't open it. Don't grind your teeth hard. Put your tongue on the palate and breathe naturally through your nose.

2. Hands should not be stiff and tight, fingers should be stretched naturally, and you should not use force when making a fist. You need to be soft, as long as the little finger, ring finger, middle finger and index finger are curled in turn so that the fingertips touch the palm, and the tip of the thumb is pressed against the middle of the index finger and middle finger. The so-called Tai Ji Chuan's boxing is hollow boxing, which is what it means.

3, including chest pull. The chest contains a little, just like a cat must try to curl its body when it catches a mouse. Before we jump, the three joints of hip, knee and foot must be bent. If not, we can't save and jump. The correct posture of pulling back is to consciously relieve the tension of shoulder and back muscles. Mentally, there is a palm-sized panel around the big cone, which can be attached to the close-fitting clothes. Children may not know this place, and adults should point it out to him.

4, when practicing boxing, you should top your waist. There is a saying in the song, "How can you have a waistcoat?" . For example, the cloud hand, knee jump, oblique flying potential, submarine needle and Gautama equation should all be straight, just like a compass, the needle moves but the needle shaft does not leave its original position. Can't cat's waist, cat's waist is to bow your head and shrug your hips, and your waist is not straight and you lose your center of gravity. This is easy to cause poor breathing.

5. Tai Ji Chuan's requirements for legs must first distinguish between reality and reality; Secondly, the movements should be light and flexible; Third, we must achieve balance and stability. For children, as long as the action is not awkward, it will naturally flow like water after a long time.

Respiratory demand

Breathing is an important part of Tai Ji Chuan. Generally speaking, there are two ways to breathe when playing Tai Ji Chuan, one is natural breathing, and the other is boxing breathing. Natural breathing means not paying too much attention to the coordination between breathing and boxing and movements. On the basis of good boxing, it is advisable to breathe naturally and comfortably, and children should also breathe in this way.

Tai Ji Chuan's way of keeping fit.

Tai Ji Chuan is a kind of boxing in the treasure house of China Wushu, and it has a unique exercise method, which can be summarized as "brain training, gas training and physical training". The three are closely combined, starting with what the brain does, then moving in and then moving out. In fact, it is an exercise method of both internal and external training. Generally speaking, Tai Ji Chuan's fitness is to improve physical fitness, adapt to changes in the objective environment, and enhance the body's immune ability, so as to achieve the purpose of disease prevention, treatment, fitness and self-defense.

Practice your brain

Tai Ji Chuan has a positive effect on the regulation and training of brain function. Taijiquan requires single-mindedness, concentration and obedience to the will. Internal and external trinity refers to the combination of meaning, qi and force, that is, the combination of meaning and qi, qi and force; External triad refers to hands and feet, elbows and knees, shoulders and hips. Continuous, in one go. These subtle, complicated and unique exercise methods and requirements are integrated into Tai Ji Chuan's exercises, which is good exercise for the brain. Then adjust the functions of various systems of the body to make them normal and the organs strong, so as to achieve the purposes of preventing and treating diseases, strengthening the body and self-defense.

Tai Ji Chuan is a kind of exercise method of "static braking, but still moving", which combines static and dynamic. This is beneficial to the regulation of excitation and inhibition of cerebral cortex. It has obvious curative effect on neurasthenia, insomnia and dizziness caused by excessive excitement of cerebral cortex. If we persist for a long time, we can gradually eliminate the pathological excitement caused by the disease in the cerebral cortex, thus achieving the therapeutic effect.

Tai Ji Chuan emphasized the exercise under the condition of whole body relaxation. Not only does the body need to relax, but also the brain needs to relax. Under the control of the brain, relaxing nerves and muscles can reflexively relax systemic arteriolar hypertension, which is mainly manifested in the aggregation of arterioles and at the same time alleviate the sclerosis of arteriolar walls. In this way, blood pressure drops and tends to be normal, which is more beneficial to patients with hypertension. Relaxation after mental and physical work can make excited nerves and tired muscles recover faster, which is why practicing boxing can eliminate fatigue better than staying still.

Do breathing exercises

Chinese medicine says: "Qi promotes blood circulation, while qi stagnation leads to blood stasis." The implementation of blood is mainly driven by qi, and qi and blood are interdependent and unified by opposites. Qi is the main aspect of contradiction, which is called "Qi Shuai is blood"; At the same time, qi can control the blood running in the meridians, so it is also called "qi can suck blood"; Qi can promote the metabolism of blood, which is called "qi can produce blood"; Massive bleeding will inevitably lead to deficiency of both qi and blood, which is the so-called "Qi escaping with blood".

Tai Ji Chuan's qi should include three aspects, namely, qi inhaled from the lungs, Shui Gu essence transported from the spleen and stomach and innate qi. This is connected with the spirit of Taoist cultivation.

Tai Ji Chuan's practice of Qi is under the control of the cerebral cortex nervous system, which makes the whole body in a relaxed state. With deep breathing, the viscera and external muscles are relaxed and contracted rhythmically, and the gas accumulated in abdomen of Dantian is transported to the whole body through the spiral winding of waist, spine and limbs. At this time, the peripheral nerves will feel acid, numbness, bloating and heat, which is also commonly known as "gas sensation". People with this sense of qi and blood execution have ruddy faces and their body temperature can rise by about 1 degree.

Through the execution of qi, about 200 capillaries are opened for use per square millimeter of muscle, and only about 5 capillaries have blood flow at ordinary times. Capillaries open and close according to a certain period. Therefore, their pulse seems to add millions of tiny "hearts" to the body. The large-scale development of these peripheral small hearts has reduced the burden on the heart and is extremely beneficial to the prevention and treatment of heart disease.

Through the forward and backward winding movement of limbs, not only the elasticity of muscles is exercised, but also the speed of blood circulation is improved, thus preventing and treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases caused by blocked blood circulation.

Tai Ji Chuan can gradually deepen breathing, so the diaphragm drops more. Through the diaphragm moving up and down, the chest and abdomen movements are strengthened, which plays a "* * *" role in internal organs. This is an effect that drugs can't achieve. In this way, the blood flow of organs in the chest and abdominal cavity is vigorous, and the absorption function is enhanced, and it will receive good curative effect on diseases caused by various organs, such as gastrointestinal dyspepsia, diabetes, incontinence, etc.

Tai Ji Chuan's deep breathing makes the heart expel a lot of polluted air and inhale more oxygen, which improves the ventilation efficiency of the lungs and enhances the elasticity of lung tissue. This can reduce the ossification rate of costal cartilage, enhance chest activity, and play a certain role in preventing and treating lung diseases and emphysema.

When inhaling, hanging the hip refers to gently contracting the muscles, just like hanging the perineum, the perineum is intentionally lifted slightly and relaxed when inhaling. In this way, the perineum is relaxed, and after practicing for a long time, it will feel ups and downs with breathing. This is the movement of sphincter, which can prevent and treat hemorrhoids, proctoptosis, uterine prolapse and some chronic reproductive system diseases.