The history of Chen-style Tai Ji Chuan I. The origin of Chenjiagou history
In the fifth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1372), Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to emigrate from Hongdong County, Shanxi Province to Huaiqing Prefecture. Among the immigrants, there is a young man named Chen Bu, whose ancestral home is Dongtuhe Village, Zezhou County, Shanxi Province. After years of disasters in his hometown, he fled to Hongdong, was wrapped in the immigration team with his wife and children, and was taken into Huaiqing House. He settled in the northeast of Wenxian County 10 km, and named the village Chenbuzhuang. Because Chenbuzhuang is low-lying, it is often flooded. In the seventh year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, Chen Bu's banker led him to Changyang Village. This village is located in the southeast of Chenbuzhuang, west Qingfeng Ridge, with the Yellow River in the south and the ridge in the north, which ensures the drought and flood. Changyang Village has persimmon ditch in the west, north ditch in the east, and ditch surrounded on three sides. With the growth of the Chen family, Changyang Village was renamed Chenjiagou. Until the founding of New China, the wedding utensils used by Chenjiagou were all written. Gu Changyang? The font size of. Chenjiagou is about 5 kilometers east of Wenxian County, and it is still dominated by Chen's surname, with more than 2,600 residents in the village.
Second, the origin of Chen Taiji's biography
Chen Bu, the ancestor of the Chen family, settled in Changyang Village, Qingfeng Ridge, worked hard and established a family. Chen Bu, who is proficient in boxing, set up a martial arts club in the village to teach his descendants to practice boxing and martial arts in order to protect mulberries from local bandits.
Chen Bu and his descendants lived under one roof for six generations, including Chen Gang II, Chen Lin III, Chen Jingyuan IV, Chen Tang V and Chen VI. Seven brothers, Chen Siqi, Chen and Chen, started their own careers. Chen Siqi passed on Chen Shoushen in the eighth, then Chen I read, Chen I speak, Chen I recite and Chen I desert in the ninth, and then Chen I told Chen Ruxin in the tenth. Another branch of the Chen family, the fourth and seventh generations of Chen, spread to the eighth generation of Chen Fumin, and Chen Fumin spread to the ninth generation of Chen Zhuogan and Chen Zhuoting.
Chen (about 1509), also known as Chen, was born in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He is both a civilian and a soldier. He went to Yudai Mountain alone, trying to stop the rebellion of Li Ji, a martial artist in Dengfeng. He made great achievements for the Qing court to pacify Shandong bandits. He is very famous in Henan and Shandong, but he has not been reused by the Qing court. Unable to serve the country, Chen retired. In addition to farming, he invented and created a set of new boxing methods combining Yin and Yang, combining with the ancestral 100 single-eight-style long boxing, drawing on the strengths of many families, combining the theory of Yin and Yang and the five elements in Yi ology, and referring to the meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine and the technique of guiding breathing, including Tai Ji Chuan five-way, artillery one-way, two-push, knife and gun. From the existing "Long and Short Sentences" by Chen, we can learn some things at that time:? Sigh that year, I persevered and swept the atmosphere, and I was not afraid of danger several times! Blessed in vain, I am still breathing when I am old. In the end, there was only a roll of Huang Ting as a companion, who used to punch in his spare time, plow in his busy time, and teach some disciples' children and grandchildren in his spare time to make Jackie Chan a tiger. If you owe official grain early, you should pay off your private debt, but don't flatter with arrogance and flattery, be patient first. People treat me like a fool, they treat me like an asshole, and they often wash their ears without playing the crown. Laughing and killing thousands of generals, being conscientious, is not as good as Shu Tai in my heart. Fame and fortune are always not greedy for understanding institutions, know Handan, like fishing, wander around mountains and rivers, and waste nothing for prosperity. If you get a healthy and peaceful world, you don't regret it. It doesn't matter if he is indifferent to the world, and it doesn't matter if he succeeds or fails. If not immortal, who is immortal? . Chen's ability to practice boxing in his later years is also inseparable from a martial arts master named. When Wang Tinggong broke into Yudai Mountain in his early years, Li met one of Li's men, who was also very skilled in martial arts. It is said that his feet are as fast as flying and he can chase rabbits with a hundred paces. After being exiled by the Qing government, he defected to Chen. He regards Chen as his friend and teacher, and is willing to be a servant and disciple. The close relationship gives Chen an opponent to learn from, and the new Tai Ji Chuan can also be tested and revised in practice.
Third, the theoretical source of Chen Tai Ji Chuan.
Chandy IX Sun Chenchuang compiled Chen Shi Tai Ji Chuan from four theoretical sources:
1. Combine boxing with the changes of Yin-Yang and Five Elements in Yi-ology.
The human body is an organic whole that keeps moving. Yi-ology holds that the movement of all things in nature is the unity of opposites of Yin and Yang. The movement of human life itself is a process in which the opposition of Yin and Yang reaches unity in the constant contradictory movement.
Yi-ology holds that all things or phenomena that are warm, ascending, bright, exciting, frivolous and active belong to the category of Yang. All cold, healthy, depressed, restrained and quiet things or phenomena belong to the category of yin. Tai Ji Chuan followed the theory of Yin-Yang change, and in the operation of one move and one potential, Yin carries Yang, Yang carries Yin, and Yin and Yang change and complement each other.
2. Combine boxing with the theories of guidance and breathing of TCM, and apply Qigong to boxing.
Traditional Chinese medicine guidance is a health preserving method invented by ancient doctors in China. Mainly through breathing, bending and stretching of hands and feet, the qi, blood and essence of all parts of the human body circulate unimpeded, thus promoting the health of the body.
The application of guidance in Tai Ji Chuan is the combination of meaning and form, which makes the heart physiology normal, thus guiding the free flow of blood gas in the body. According to the ancient doctors in China, the heart is the residence of the gods, which controls the circulation of blood vessels and plays an important role in regulating various organs of the human body. It is the master of human life activities, and the most important organ in everyone is located at the head of the five senses. In the theory that five zang-organs control essence and qi, the spirit is hidden in the heart, the soul is hidden in the lungs, the soul is hidden in the liver, the will is hidden in the kidney, and the meaning is hidden in the spleen. The whole body's blood can only be transported to all parts of the body by the push of the heart. Therefore, when Chen created Tai Ji Chuan, he combined the techniques of "Hundred Single and Eight Potential Long Boxing" taught by his ancestor Chen Bu with the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine, so as to make the movement of the body conform to and promote blood circulation under the condition of relaxing the whole body. Practicing Tai Ji Chuan can make the heart vigorous, the qi and blood full, the meridians unobstructed, the functions of the heart governing the blood vessels play a normal role, and the blood runs normally in the blood vessels, thus playing the role of practicing boxing and keeping in good health. Otherwise, the lack of qi and blood of exercisers will weaken the power of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, block meridians and produce pathological changes, which is not conducive to the health of exercisers. Inhalation is also a health preserving method invented by ancient Chinese physicians. Spit, that is, spit out from the mouth, which means exhaling and inhaling; Na, that is, income, refers to inhaling through the nostrils. Breathing and breathing are the art of breathing. By spitting turbid qi through the mouth, clearing qi through the nose, spitting out the old and absorbing the new, strengthening the body with food, making the form and spirit fit together, benefiting both the exterior and the interior.
The lung is responsible for breathing qi, and the respiratory function is one of the important physiological functions of the human body. Throughout life, the human body needs to constantly carry out metabolism. In the process of metabolism, a lot of fresh gas (i.e. oxygen) is consumed, and a lot of polluted gas (i.e. carbon dioxide) is produced. Inhaling oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide depend on the breathing and exhaling functions of the lungs.
Tai Ji Chuan combined boxing body movements with new ideas. First of all, he ensures that body movements can't interfere with the respiratory movement of human lungs in Hohhot, so as to ensure the normal function of lungs and the natural progress of metabolism. Secondly, boxing can promote the formation of clan spirit in human body. The so-called clan spirit, harmonious atmosphere, is the acquired spirit relative to innate vitality and the foundation of human life. The function of clan qi is to promote the breathing of lungs and the movement of heart blood in blood vessels. Ancestral qi is mainly composed of pure natural qi inhaled by lung and subtle qi produced by Shui Gu's spleen and stomach, which gathers in the chest and is called Shangqihai, which is the beginning of the popularization of whole body qi movement. Third, through the physical movement of boxing, promote the distribution of ancestral qi in the human body. With the cooperation of the heart and lungs, the ancestral qi in the upper air sea is sent to all organs and viscera of the whole body through blood vessels, so as to reach the whole body, skin and viscera, and play its nourishing and nourishing role. Tai Ji Chuan combined the body movement of boxing with the guidance and breathing theory of TCM, which made the body movement more beneficial to health and the function of fighting and attacking.
3. Combine boxing with meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine.
China's theory of meridians in ancient Chinese medicine mainly discusses the physiological functions and pathological changes of human meridian system, and the relationship between meridians and viscera, which is an important part of China's ancient theoretical bag system. Meridian is a channel that runs the whole body's qi and blood, connects the heart and limbs, communicates inside and outside, up and down, inside and outside, and regulates the functional activities of various parts in the body. They are the general name of meridians and their affiliated organizations, and they are the unique organizational structure and communication system of human body. Among them, the meridian is the longitudinal trunk Z line of the human meridian system; Collateral, which means network, is a large and small branch of human vein, criss-crossing, and the network is everywhere. The human meridian system mainly includes the twelve meridians, Eight Wonders, the twelve meridians, other collaterals, Sun collaterals, floating collaterals, the twelve meridians and twelve skin parts, which play an important role in life and death, coping with all kinds of diseases and regulating deficiency and excess, but they must not be blocked. The meridian system meets through regular circulation and complex connections. The organs, limbs, five senses, nine orifices, muscles and meridians of the human body are connected into a unified organic whole, thus ensuring the normal life activities of the human body.
First, combine boxing with the connection function of meridian system. The human body is a whole composed of five internal organs, four limbs, five senses and bones and muscles. It mainly maintains the coordination and unity of the body through the contact function of the meridian system. The twelve meridians and the twelve meridians crisscross, entering and leaving the table, reaching up and down, circulating between zang-fu organs and official orifices; The connection and regulation of odd meridians and eight veins are normal; Thirteen warp tendons are connected with twelve skins. Chen applied the connection function of human meridian theory to Tai Ji Chuan, forming one of Tai Ji Chuan's attack and defense theories? Nothing is quiet, everything moves with it. .
Second, combine boxing with the transportation function of meridian system. All tissues and organs of the human body need the nourishment of qi and blood to maintain normal physiological activities. The reason why qi and blood are unimpeded, reaching the whole body, nourishing viscera and tissues, resisting external evils and defending the body must rely on the conduction and injection of the meridian system. Chen applied the transport function of the meridian system to Tai Ji Chuan's operation, nourishing Yin and Yang by activating qi and blood through the meridians, thus nourishing the qi in the abdomen, softening the qi in the exterior, and overflowing into the body, which is helpful to the development of martial arts. Moisturize your bones and muscles, make yourself strong, have solid internal and external bones and muscles, and have sufficient internal qi, so as to withstand and resolve external blows; Convenient joints, so that all parts of the body can move lightly, so that they can move without moving, and then attack while taking advantage of the situation to defeat the enemy.
Third, combine boxing with the induction and conduction of the meridian system. The so-called inductive conduction is the feeling of the meridian system to external stimuli, which has the function of transmission and guidance, that is, the tactile system of the human body. Chen applied the induction and conduction of meridian system to Tai Ji Chuan, which ensured the smooth completion of static braking and back attack. As "On Boxing" said: He did not move, nor did he move; He moved slightly. He moved first? .
Fourth, combine boxing with the regulating function of the meridian system. The meridian system of human body not only has the functions of communication, transportation and induction, but also can keep the balance and coordination of functional activities of various parts of human body. Chen applied the regulating function of the meridian system to Tai Ji Chuan's operation, guiding the balance, coordination and flexibility of the meridians to regulate the body and parts, turning deficiency into reality, luring the enemy with deficiency, attracting deficiency with reality, avoiding reality and attacking deficiency, thus defeating the enemy.
The combination of boxing and meridian theory makes Tai Ji Chuan's art create silk-winding strength. This kind of silk-winding strength is bred by the winding spiral movement mode that conforms to the change of meridians, and it is difficult to improve and prevent the power of boxing strength.
4. Set hundreds of boxing in one, unique.
During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a famous military commander in China, whose surname was Qi Ming Jiguang (1528- 1587), whose name was Jing, and his later years was from Penglai, Shandong. Qi Jiguang made up a new army, and handed down the thirty-two potentials made up of the strengths of hundreds of boxing techniques, which were endless, subtle and unpredictable, as if they were divine.
When Chen Chuang compiled Tai Ji Chuan, he learned subtlety from the thirty-two potential boxing classics compiled by Qi Jiguang and adopted twenty-nine potentials, namely, the lazy man tied his clothes, the golden rooster was independent, the horse-picking fist, the seven-star fist, the sparrow earthworm, the foot-hanging deficiency, the crouching tiger potential, the beast head potential, the kick in the sky, the rising sun hand, the finger crotch potential, the leaping tiger potential, the head gun and so on.