I. Biography of Yang Tai
Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan was created by Yang Luchan (real name Fukui, 1799 ~ 1872) from Yongnian, Hebei. Yang Luchan, one of the famous disciples of Tai Ji Chuan famous Chen Changxing in Chenjiagou, is the seventh generation descendant of Tai Ji Chuan. When Yang Luchan gave boxing in Beijing, because most of his disciples were princes and nobles, he lived in luxury, was sick and could not bear hardships.
Considering these people's physical fitness and health care needs, Yang Luchan made some changes to some difficult movements in Tai Ji Chuan's old frame, such as jumping, dropping forks and shaking feet. , into the action of not jumping, not falling, not speeding, not shaking, not shrinking, making the posture simpler, the action soft and easy to practice. It is not only suitable for people wearing robes and braids to practice, but also beneficial to fitness. Later, it was known as "The Biography of Yang Tai". It should be noted that Yang's Tai Ji Chuan is divided into health-keeping frame and fighting frame, which should be paid attention to when practicing.
Second, martial arts Tai Ji Chuan
Wushu Tai Ji Chuan was created by Wu Yuxiang (named Heqing, 1825 ~ 1893), a native of Yongnian, Hebei. Wu Yuxiang, one of the famous disciples of Chen Qingping, a famous Tai Ji Chuan scholar in Zhaobao, is the eighth generation descendant of Tai Ji Chuan. In the 13th year of Daoguang reign of Qing Dynasty (1833), fellow countryman Yang Luchan returned to his hometown from Chenjiagou, Wenxian County, Henan Province. Wu Yuxiang enjoyed it and often compared it to know its outline.
About 1850, Wu Yuxiang studied under Zhao Baohe's biography of Taiji. 1852, Wu Yuxiang went to Henan in person and studied Zhao Bao's Tai Chi Chuan Xiao Jia from Chen Qingping for 40 days. He did his best and was presented with the biography of Tai Chi. After reading it, he realized. After returning to Li, on the basis of learning Zhao Bao's Tai Ji Chuan frame, combined with the essence of Tai Chi Pu Chuan, I learned through my own boxing practice.
After several years' research and development, he created a new type of boxing, which is "small and agile, compact and dexterous, simple and complex, with distinct techniques, simple and elegant, dignified and free and easy", and later called it "Wu's Taiji Biography".
Third, the biography of Wu Taiji.
Wu-style Tai Ji Chuan was created by Quanyou (word Gongfu, 1834 ~ 1902). All the disciples of Hou, a famous Tai Ji Chuan artist, practiced Tai Ji Chuan, and Tai Ji Chuan was famous for his softness. The shelf is inclined, upright, relaxed, natural and of moderate size. When pushing the hand, keep quiet and don't move. Be good at it. According to his own feeling of practicing boxing, he modified it on the basis of Yang Xiaojia's Tai Ji Chuan.
Quan Jian, the son of Quan You (1870 ~ 1942), also known as Ai Shen, was surnamed Wu in the Han Dynasty and studied at home since childhood. In the first year of the Republic of China (19 12), Wu taught Tai Ji Chuan in Beijing Sports Research Association. He enriched and modified the family-style Tai Ji Chuan, removed the repetitive and jumping movements, modified the stereotypes, and formed a new style of boxing, which is relaxed and natural, compact, slow and continuous, not vertical and jumping, longer than soft, and unique in style, and is called "Wu Tai Ji Chuan".
Fourth, the biography of Sun Tai.
Sun-style Tai Ji Chuan was created by Sun Lutang (named Fuquan, 1860~ 1933), a native of Wanxian County (now Shunping County, Hebei Province). Sun Lutang, a renowned martial artist at home and abroad in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, is known as the first-hand martial artist in modern Wulin. 19 12 years, Sun Lutang met Hao Weizhen, a famous martial artist in Tai Ji Chuan. Hao Weizhen spread what he learned from Tai Ji Chuan to Sun Lutang.
19 18, Sun Lutang combined Tai Ji Chuan, Xingyiquan and Bagua Palm into one, breaking new ground, and created a new routine of Tai Ji Chuan, which is small and light, flexible and slow, light in transformation, diverse in action direction, advancing and retreating in footwork, and connecting operation with opening and closing. It is called "Sun Style".
Five, Tai Chi Chuan.
The biography of Harmonious Taiji was created by Renhe Zhaoyuan (18 10~ 1890) in Zhaobao Town, Wenxian County. He Zhaoyuan, one of the famous disciples of Chen Qingping, the master of Zhaobao Tai Ji Chuan, is the eighth generation descendant of Tai Ji Chuan.
On the basis of the original boxing frame, Zhao Yuan modified the techniques, postures, footwork and posture in the boxing frame, which greatly increased the practical content of martial arts, made the boxing frame more natural and completely conformed to the physiological structure of the human body, and created a brand-new Tai Ji Chuan boxing method, which integrated boxing frame, pushing hands and Sanshou, and confirmed each other, and integrated martial arts, self-cultivation and fitness, which not only maintained the tradition and tradition of the original biography of Tai Ji Chuan in Zhaobao Town.
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