Since Yang Luchan brought Tai Ji Chuan to Beijing, after 200 years of metaplasia and popularity, Tai Ji Chuan has developed into a mass movement. Where there are people from China, there are people practicing Tai Ji Chuan. In order to popularize Tai Ji Chuan, it has become more and more simple, from difficult internal movements to paying attention to appearance, including Chinese opera and dance performances. The use of Wushu has been gradually abandoned. Tai Ji Chuan has become an ugly gymnastics. But this change has made a great contribution to the popularization of Tai Ji Chuan. There used to be a saying in Taiji Biography that "I won't go out for ten years". In today's era when the pace of life is so fast, how can we ask people who are hunched over for life to spend so much time practicing boxing? 6, 70-year-old retirees' learning ability and memory began to deteriorate, and it was difficult to practice to a high level. At present, few people aspire to pursue Tai Ji Chuan's true scriptures, mainly because it is difficult to find a master and lacks time and strength. Most of the popular boxing moves slowly, which affects the inner room from the outside, just like general gymnastics. In fact, Tai Ji Chuan demanded that the joints and muscles of the body should be activated and relaxed by thinking in sequence. The deeper you work, the more body parts your brain controls. Every movement involves a lot of internal skills, which urge hands and feet. That's why boxing is so slow You should know that Tai Ji Chuan is not slow but slow, and slow is to meet the requirements of internal work. Because of internal exercise, the fitness effect is more significant than external exercise.
Tai Ji Chuan is a family-run boxing method, which is also known as Xingyi Boxing and Bagua Palm. Someone once compared fish: Taiji Chuan is a fish head-extremely sensitive; Xingyiquan is a fish-full of explosive power; Baguazhang is the tail of a fish-the metaphor is flexible. These three kinds of boxing have their own methods of promotion and practice. However, only Taiji Zhuan advocates that the original intention is not hard, but to learn from others. The essence of borrowing power from people is to borrow gravity, that is, to learn to use the rebound force generated by the weight of the body pressing against the ground as the energy of activities. If you can master this skill, the energy is endless. We have been learning to turn over and walk against gravity since childhood. We are all fighting gravity with our own strength. With our growth, exertion has become a habit, and it is extremely difficult to change the habit of this activity. The way to borrow gravity is to relax every part of the body and give all the weight to gravity. Wang Zongyue's boxing theory is the essence of energy to stimulate Tai Ji Chuan's activities. The more parts of the body are relaxed, the greater the elasticity. Tai Chi Chuan requires relaxation, which is the reason.
The most powerful energy in the world is water, not wind. Tai Ji Chuan can generate great energy without exerting force, because his boxing theory is to imitate water and wind, and ultimately it is the way to realize nature. The score says, "Long-handed fighters are like rivers." Is to imitate the water of scholars. The characteristics of water are pervasive, extremely soft, but extremely firm. It can be as calm as a mirror, or it can be turned into stormy waves, everywhere, knocking down bridges and trees and destroying decay. Water can also seep in silently, unstoppable and impossible to prevent. The more the body is like water, the closer it is to the principle of heavy boxing. Water is continuous, and gravity combines it into a whole. The place where water stops is not only under the pressure near the contact point, but also under the pressure of the whole water weight. When a flood occurs, the amount of water often increases suddenly, accelerating the flow from high to low, and the weight of water increases several times. Energy and destructive power also increase exponentially. Generally speaking, the forces produced by gravity include sitting force, sitting force, centrifugal force and centripetal force. This recoil is produced by its own weight under the action of gravity. Recoil is the rebound of the original recoil. Pushing people out is the body's rebound to the thrust. If the body is not stressed, there will be no rebound and people will not be out of balance. Swirls and tornadoes in rapids are examples of centrifugal and centripetal forces in nature, with infinite power. When practicing boxing, keep the circle potential, the middle is just right and comfortable, and take opening and closing as the power source of each potential, that is, imitate the spiral and tornado. Imitating water and wind is a big goal, and we can't achieve it 100%. But with one more point, the energy will increase, and Tai Ji Chuan will increase by one point.
There are different sects in Tai Ji Chuan, with different boxing methods and different practice methods. But the goal of all parties to pursue Tai Ji Chuan is clear. The "convenient method" often mentioned in Buddhism is just a means or method to inspire the mind of practitioners and finally reach the other shore to achieve positive results. Boxing is a convenient exercise, just a means, not the ultimate goal of Tai Ji Chuan. So don't stay at the stage of convenient practice. Otherwise, you will only see the trees but not the forest, and you will never see the true face of Lushan Mountain in Taiji Chuan. It is not enough to spend a lifetime trying to build a boxing frame. For example, most of them are busy learning more boxing all day, and don't even enter Tai Ji Chuan's door, let alone build Tai Ji Chuan. The boxing rack is just a tool to practice and verify the authenticity of Tai Ji Chuan. After mastery, the value of the boxing stand will be greatly reduced or even abandoned when it is not necessary to bother to use it.
Learning boxing now is based on learning a boxing set, and the word graduation is really wrong. Learning a set of empty shelves without connotation has never entered the world of Tai Ji Chuan. What's the difference between practicing Tai Ji Chuan without connotation for 30 minutes and dancing healthily with music for 30 minutes? There is an old saying: "If you don't practice boxing, you will get nothing." . "People who are interested in this way of learning must know.