First, stand up straight and comfortable. All factions in Tai Ji Chuan attach great importance to posture. As early as 1930s, Mr. Yang Chengfu proposed that "Ten Essentials of Tai Ji Chuan" mainly required body posture. The characteristics of "standing upright and comfortable" are especially beneficial to Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan. It includes two aspects. 6? 1 First, the posture should be correct when practicing, and the upper, middle and lower acupoints (i.e. Baihui, Yin Hui and Yongquan) should be kept vertical, upright and impartial in most movements, forming a gravity vertical line, so that the body cannot lean forward or backward. Second, the tailgate should be upright, the spine should be relaxed and vertical from Dazhui point to tailgate (Changqiang point), forming a long up-down pair, and the tailgate should guide the course like a rudder. In the case of physical and mental relaxation, the above two aspects can reflect the characteristics of integrity and comfort. This feature of Yang's style is well known to many famous artists. Mr. Wang Yongquan, a tall man in Yang Chengfu, vividly compared the human body to an ancient clock, with a shoulder ring, a waist ring and a hip ring at the neck and top, a bell rope at the central vertical line, and a hammer tied to the lower end of the central vertical line, which is called the five points of a bronze bell, with great emphasis on uprightness. There is a couplet in the living room of Mr. Li, a famous Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan. The first couplet is "upright posture", which also emphasizes the righteousness and comfort of posture.
Second, the boxing frame is generous. Yang Tai Ji Chuan's unique style in boxing frame is to be generous. He believes that only generosity can help the limbs stretch up and down, left and right. Generosity requires relaxation inside and outside the body, and gestures must be in place. The typical boxing situation of the upper and lower double strokes is "White Crane with Bright Wings", and the left and right double strokes are long and generous. It is an important criterion to measure whether boxing moves are in place and generous.
Third, the movement is soft and slow. This is the most prominent feature of Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan and the main reason why Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan is famous at home and abroad. Yang Luchan went to Chenjiagou, Henan Province to learn boxing from Chen Changxing for several years, and then became a school of his own. Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan boxing frame has no obvious rigid movements such as bouncing, jumping and shaking feet of Chen-style Tai Ji Chuan, and has formed its own unique big and soft style. This is a unique training method from loose to soft, and it is also a fitness method suitable for all ages in Xian Yi. It is said that Yang Chengfu teaches boxing and disciples, and the most emphasized word is Songzi. He often said, "loose, loose, loose, I won't tell you, and I won't learn it in three lives." He can watch his apprentice practice boxing for a long time without saying a word, but sometimes he has to say the word "loose" dozens of times. This kind of fist method, which is loose and soft, hides needles in the cotton, also conforms to the philosophical thought of Laozi, the originator of Taoism in China, and the weak wins the strong and governs by doing nothing.
Fourth, the working speed is unified. Some Tai Ji Chuan sects emphasize the alternation of speed and strength, while Yang Tai Ji Chuan emphasizes slowness and softness, especially the uniformity of speed. It is forbidden to be fast and slow, and the shelf is high and low. Speed uniformity includes not only the whole routine from the beginning to the end, but also the running speed and coordination of hands and feet of a single action, as well as the natural coordination of the transition between the previous action and the next action. It takes about 22 minutes to play a set of 85-style traditional routines, and it may take 40 minutes to an hour to play the next set of kung fu. Moreover, the speed of the whole boxing routine is determined by the starting speed, and the speed of all routines is the same. "Walking like a cat and running like a reel" requires that the center of gravity should be reversed slowly when the action changes, the starting point should be light and the speed should be consistent, and it should not be "slow down". Although individual movements can be done a little faster, on the whole, it is like flowing water with even speed. Even if you turn around and throw the lotus, turn around and kick the left, you still emphasize the even speed.
Fifth, the moves are clear. In the article Ten Essentials of Tai Ji Chuan, Yang Chengfu clearly pointed out at the beginning that Tai Ji Chuan's art takes the distinction between reality and falsehood as the first essence, which shows the importance of the distinction between reality and falsehood in practicing Tai Ji Chuan in Yang Tai. Yang's 85-style Tai Ji Chuan, from beginning to end, every movement requires a clear distinction between reality and reality, and most of the movements are carried by one leg. When the whole body is sitting on the right leg, the right leg is solid and the left leg is empty. When the whole body is sitting on the left leg, the left leg is real and the right leg is empty, and it is extremely rare for the two legs to bear the weight equally. Except for a short stand in the transition action of starting, cloud hand, right tiger, turning and right kick, the rest are almost empty and real. In addition, Yang Tai Ji Chuan's transformation from virtual reality to virtual reality is a gradual process. For example, down to earth, from virtual to real. When moving forward, the heel touches the ground first, the sole and toes touch the ground in turn, and finally they are practical; When retreating, the toes touch the ground first, the soles of the feet and the heels touch the ground in turn, and finally the whole feet touch the ground, just like the situation in which yin and yang fish rise and fall with each other in Tai Chi. This kind of boxing frame with clear distinction between reality and reality is very prominent in the whole routine of Biography of Yang Tai.