Tai Chi Chuan's shelves, large and small, have different charms and styles. Charm and style are an unchangeable part of Tai Ji Chuan and his personality. Regardless of the size of the frame, Tai Ji Chuan pays attention to "empty collar, strong spirit and heavy abdomen" in breathing and essentials, and takes Zhonggong as the key to internal repair, which is the * * * nature of all Tai Ji Chuan. * * * is the reason why Tai Ji Chuan became a boxer, and * * also makes the big frame or small frame have the characteristics of "solid spirit inside and easy outside". Tai Ji Chuan's charm and style are two aspects: inner spirit and external ease. Tai Ji Chuan's practice should be breath-holding, psychologically, first in the mind, then in the body, always pay attention to, in the momentum, converge on the spine. These three are internal repairs, and the result naturally shows the spirit of internal repair. This is also the requirement of inner space for spirit. The relaxation spirit is the display of the inner spirit in the external space. This is the constant element of Tai Ji Chuan.
Is it better to fight big or small? It depends on the temperament and conditions of the practitioner. There is also a trend of people's aesthetic interest value, which is not a good question of big and small shelves. Traditional Tai Ji Chuan advocates singleness. Choosing one of them and practicing it carefully in the right way will surely achieve good results. Beginners should not be greedy, even if they have a certain foundation, they should pay attention to the relative closeness of the nature of the varieties when adjusting their interest in practice and choosing exercise items. Otherwise, it is bound to be "wasting people's money and sighing." For example, you can practice Chen-style big rack, Chen-style small rack and Yang-style big rack, or practice Yang-style big rack first and then Chen-style big rack, because Yang-style is Chen-style. If you practice Chen's small rack, don't practice Yang's big rack at the same time, because the contradiction between the size of the two racks is more prominent. So wait, it is better to be single-minded. "If you drink Chen Gou's water, you can kick your legs." Actually, people who go to Chen Gou to drink water may have to drink for a while before kicking their legs. Wushu is a kind of agricultural social culture. Until today, the main social foundation of Wushu is still the community related to agricultural society and culture. Family inheritance is a typical feature of Chen's Tai Ji Chuan, and the stability of agricultural society is the constant environmental condition of Chen's Tai Ji Chuan for many years. Since the 17th Chen Fake 1928 left a corner of the Central Plains and went to Beijing Public School to study with his master, the style of Chen Taiji's biography has changed rapidly. Not to mention the changes of people with other surnames, Chen Fake himself has enriched a lot of contents for Chen's old boxing. In the eighteenth generation of Chen Zhaokui, the one-way big frame and the two-way gun hammer can be said to be colorful. This is the changing process of Chen Tai Ji Chuan from quality to writing. These changes of Chen and Tai Ji Chuan are formal, not rational. Whether it's tying clothes or tying clothes, covering hands or covering hands, the movements are inseparable from softness and flexibility, which are the unchangeable ingredients of Chen Tai Ji Chuan.
Prior to this, Chen Taiji's biography changed slowly within the family. From the innovation of 14th Chen Youben and Chen Youheng in the first half of last century to the final design of Chen Fake in his later years, these two changes were separated by more than one hundred years. The new rack was originally a change of style or a big rack. When the new frame is further tightened to the middle palace in action, it becomes a small frame. The change time of boxing style is first and then, which is called new and old. What should I say if the new framework changes further? Can't you call it a new framework? The change of style in space can be called size. If it is not a change between sizes, what should it be called? Chen Fake's big frame in his later years and Chen Zhaokui's big frame are all changes based on the old frame and big frame. This change is new. We can say that this is a new framework. If it is a new box, it can't be said to be an old box. Because they are all big racks, it is still correct to call them big racks. If they are evolving in the direction of small shelves, how to locate their names? It's true that Chen Lao's Taijiquan biography is called Lao Jia. It is said that it has been circulating for hundreds of years. Can you be old? You can modify this name. It is problematic to call the changed shelf new. Yang's Tai Ji Chuan originated from Chen, Wu's Tai Ji Chuan from Yang, Yang and Chen influenced Wu's Tai Ji Chuan, and his Tai Ji Chuan was influenced by Wu. Are they new or old?
Tai Ji Chuan's concept of "old and new" is changeable in time and space. As the positioning of Tai Ji Chuan's name, it is not easy to accurately grasp and there is no stability. In an agricultural society with a slow pace and a single mode of production in a certain period of time, it is feasible to position the new and old shelves as names, but it is not feasible in a modern society with active thoughts and rapid scientific and cultural changes. In social life, people's mastery and learning of all practical knowledge and skills are limited by talent and fate. Tai Ji Chuan's cultivation is also limited by talent and fate.
Eight diagrams palm is divided into three kinds of practice methods, namely, upper, middle and lower, commonly known as three-disc practice method. The practice method of the upper plate is that the body is upright, the practice method of the middle plate is that the legs are slightly squatting, and the practice method of the lower plate is suitable for the slower speed, even the slower the better. The middle and upper plate exercise is a technical skill exercise, and the lower plate exercise is a strength skill exercise. Tai Ji Chuan doesn't have three sets of posture exercises, but whether it's a big rack or a small rack, or Chen, Wu and various Tai Ji Chuan, you can practice with three sets of high school and low school. In fact, many people are unconsciously practicing with these three methods. The upper plate is a high shelf, the middle plate is a middle shelf and the lower plate is a low shelf. The height of the frame is not unique to the Eight Diagrams Palm, nor is it unique to Taiji Chuan. Cannot be defined as a Tai Ji Chuan name positioning.
Is the medium-high shelf better or the low shelf better? This depends on the physical conditions and training purposes of the practitioners themselves. Tai Ji Chuan practitioners are different in age, talent and motivation, so the level of the boxing ring has different meanings. There are many elements of suitability and variability in the definition of boxing frame height, which cannot be generalized.
Traditional Wushu focuses on meaning rather than form, but on hitting meaning. The predecessors said that Tai Ji Chuan's cultivation "is not only the end of skills", which means not only the pursuit of fighting, but also the end of skills. When practicing Tai Ji Chuan, the repeated posturing, internal and external demands of body and mind are very similar to Taoist priests who have been practicing silently for many years, and they are also very similar to the alchemy of Wudang Taoism. It is well-founded to say that practicing Tai Ji Chuan is a kind of practice. It goes without saying that the traditional Tai Ji Chuan is a martial art that can be used as a fighting skill, a secret recipe that can make people live a long life, and a skill that can meet people's spiritual needs beyond reality. Traditional Tai Ji Chuan is an internal cultivation, just like a routine. The exercise amount of the middle elevated frame is less than that of the low frame, and it can be practiced repeatedly 100 minutes or more. The appearance is simple and simple, and many people can do it, which has universal significance. The bland taste of the middle elevated road is just like what Laozi said. Plain things are not thrilling and lack modern aesthetic taste. Tai Ji Chuan's traditional aesthetic taste is the inherent and vivid beauty of tradition, which is quite different from modern aesthetic taste, and most modern people don't regard it as beauty.
When practicing low frame, lower limbs need more support. Beginners tend to lean forward and bow their heads when they barely practice low-frame. Some people can't even change their minds all their lives, which violates the basic requirements of being upright and vain. Low-altitude exercise load makes the lower limbs stiff, and it is impossible to achieve continuous infiltration, which easily leads to difficulty in relaxing the upper body and often leads to unnatural upper body and face. The layman thinks that it is full of vitality, but in fact it violates the basic requirements of qi to the bone, justice and peace. Tension in the upper body is also easy to make breathing difficult. Reverse abdominal breathing is not physiological and natural breathing, and it is more difficult to follow the trend when the upper limbs are nervous. If you can't follow the trend of luck, you can't sink into your abdomen, not to mention "Qi is not a little stagnant in your whole body" and "Qi in your abdomen is relaxed." A low shelf with a large amount of exercise is often wheezing again and again, which is not suitable for long-term practice. "The wind is endless, the showers are endless", the low frame with a large amount of exercise and the physiological conditions needed for fast fighting make the low frame and the fast frame not long-lasting in sports form, so they also lack extensive adaptability.
Traditional Tai Ji Chuan exercises also include Sanshou attack, so it is not very important whether the stride is increased or whether the legs are controlled at a high position. "If it is urgent, it will be urgent, and if it is slow, it should be slow." In the ever-changing martial arts, both sides are not allowed to lift their legs slowly. "The leg is weak", if you lift your leg too high, it is easy for your opponent to get the upper hand. In traditional Tai Ji Chuan, scaffolding is only a part of training, and it can be practiced high or low. Low shelf is an auxiliary training to increase the strength of lower limbs. Mr. Feng Zhiqiang thinks that low shelf is easy to die, and does not advocate practicing too low. Low shelf should be slow, not fast, Sanda Wushu can't be won by slow practice. The middle elevated platform is not only suitable for fast training and slow training, but also suitable for health preservation and Sanda skills. There are not many low postures in western boxing training, and fighting is rarely carried out with low postures. Traditional Tai Ji Chuan's distribution of human physical fitness, like a pyramid, is a stable and upright triangle. Both the vertical pile and the low frame are to achieve the stability of the footwall.
Low-shelf performance space is large, and elevated performance space is small. Performance boxing frame is suitable for low frame, and cultivation boxing frame is suitable for middle elevated frame. Tai Ji Chuan didn't move much in a very low posture. He pulled the shelf down mainly by keeping his body center of gravity close to the ground, and footwork and fork dropping were the limits of low shelf. The opposite of the low frame is the high leg lift, and the low posture action and the high leg lift action match each other. The limit of high leg lift is "kicking in the air", which is a difficult action and has a high aesthetic interest in modeling. The frame of the competition routine is pulled very low and the legs are controlled very high. We should have high roots and low feet. Only by widening the ligaments of the body can we not deviate from the standard requirements of Tai Ji Chuan.
Tai Ji Chuan has a lot of low-key exercise, so he can't be quick and slow at will, otherwise it will be difficult to play freely. The practice of Tai Chi Chuan is to cultivate peace of mind, get through yourself and all beings. In the past, traditional Tai Ji Chuan was only a few exercises to guide health practitioners. Tai Ji Chuan is a fitness tool for most people.