The five major schools in Tai Ji Chuan are briefly introduced as follows according to their origins:
1. Biography of Chen Taiji: Mainly influenced by Professor Chen Changxing of Chenjiagou, Henan Province, among which Chen Fake is the most famous. It is characterized by combining rigidity with softness and combining speed, which can be divided into new racks, old racks, large racks and small racks. 2. Biography of Yang Tai: Yang Luchan learned boxing from Yang Changxing, then went to Beijing to give boxing, and passed it on to his sons Yang Jianhou and Yang Jianhou to Yang Chengfu, and then it was widely popularized in Yang Chengfu. It is characterized by uniform, gentle and generous stretching.
3. Wu Tai Ji Chuan: Bao first studied under Yang Luchan and Chen Qingping of Zhaobao, Henan Province, and his brother Wu sorted out Wang Zongyue's Tai Ji Chuan score in Yandian, Wuyang, Henan Province, and studied and improved it deeply, characterized by flexible movements and quick footwork.
Sun Shi Tai Ji Chuan: Sun Lutang's plane boxing was improved by Hao Weizhen. It is characterized by opening and closing, ups and downs, compactness and walking.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) Wu's "Taiji Zhuan": Wu Shi learned from his father Wu Quanyou (a disciple of Yang Luchan) and became a family of his own. It is characterized by compactness, flexibility and moderate size.
In addition, Tai Ji Chuan can be divided into the following three types according to the size of the rack:
First, the big rack: Chen, Yang, eighty-eight, twenty-four, forty-two generally use big racks. The big rack is characterized by generous fists and light spirit.
Second, the middle frame: represented by Wu Tai Ji Chuan, its boxing frame is moderate in size and good at softening.
3. Small posture: represented by Sun Shi Tai Ji Chuan, the posture is compact and vivid.
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Tai Ji Chuan's benefits to people:
Tai Ji Chuan combined the traditional guidance and breathing methods, and paid attention to the close cooperation between fitness, nourishing qi and nourishing heart. On the one hand, it can exercise muscles and relax muscles; On the other hand, through the coordination of breathing and exercise, the internal organs can be massaged and exercised, thus achieving the function of strengthening the body.
Benefits 1: Increase the sensitivity of the nervous system-Tai Ji Chuan requires "quietness and stillness", and the cerebral cortex must rest (quietness) when practicing boxing, and entrusts the task of coordinating the functions of internal and external organs of the whole body to the central nervous system (stillness), which strengthens the sensitivity of the nervous system.
Benefit 2: Smooth the channels and collaterals, blood vessels, lymph and circulatory system-because the time for practicing Tai Ji Chuan is not too short, it can make blood gas run smoothly like ordinary aerobic exercise. After practicing for a certain period of time, you will feel numbness in your fingertips, slight joint murmur, acupuncture, abdominal sound and so on. According to China's medical theory, it is considered that this is a reaction to the patency of meridians. By bending knees and twisting, squeezing and relaxing arterial blood vessels can accelerate blood circulation, increase oxygen supply, promote the metabolism of lymphatic system and enhance personal resistance.
Benefit 3: Improve flexibility, muscle strength and muscle endurance-Tai Ji Chuan mostly walks slowly in circles and arcs, and his legs bend and squat, and his center of gravity changes alternately, so that the muscle strength and muscle endurance of each muscle are improved; Combining multi-directional and large-scale activities such as heel posture and kicking can improve the flexibility of each joint.
Benefit 4: Improve heart and lung function-practice Tai Ji Chuan, and keep breathing naturally and smoothly. Through deep, long, thin, slow and even abdominal breathing, the chest volume is increased, the times of oxygen inhalation and carbon respiration are increased, the gas is fully exchanged, and the oxygen utilization rate of various organs is relatively improved. Because it takes a long time to practice Tai Ji Chuan (it takes more than 20 minutes to play Tai Ji Chuan 24 times in a row), these aerobic activities can train and improve the cardiopulmonary function.
Benefit 5: Treating chronic digestive tract diseases-because all joints, muscles and bones will pull, entangle, squeeze and relax each other when practicing boxing, and the internal organs will also have the effect of self-massage due to abdominal breathing (abdomen is solid and chest is solid); In addition, the increase of diaphragm fluctuation has a positive stimulating effect on intestinal peristalsis; However, when practicing boxing, the tip of the tongue is lightly closed with the upper jaw and lips and teeth, which can increase saliva secretion and improve digestive function.
What kind of Tai Ji Chuan is good for healthy exercise?
Yang Tai Tai Ji Chuan is a Han boxing with a long history and one of the important schools in Tai Ji Chuan. It was developed by Yang Luchan, a Yongnian native of Handan City, Hebei Province, and his sons Yang Banhou, Yang Jianhou, Sun Yangshaohou and Yang Chengfu. Yang Tai Jichuan is deeply loved by the masses because of its simple posture, fairness and simplicity, and simple practice methods. Yang Tai Ji Chuan is strict with his opponent's eyes and body movements. Only by practicing boxing and pushing hands correctly can he achieve good results.
Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan boxing stand stretches gracefully, with tall and straight posture, smooth movements, simple and honest, and combines rigidity and softness, just like boating in the lake, light and calm. The training method is concise and deeply loved by the general public, so it is the most widely spread.
Yang Tai Ji Chuan's action requirements are like the Yangtze River, which is endless. The completion of this action is the beginning of the next action, and the next action continues. Psychologically, it is also required to do it at one go.
Yang Tai Jichuan has a remarkable effect on neurasthenia, insomnia, dizziness, headache, fatigue and other diseases caused by sub-health of white-collar workers by improving our brain function and regulating the excitement and inhibition of cerebral cortex. Moreover, Tai Ji Chuan asked us to relax all over, so as to reduce the vascular resistance of the human body, accelerate our blood circulation, and reduce the burden on the heart. Tai Ji Chuan's breathing is abdominal deep breathing, which can calm the abdomen and has a good massage and health care effect on internal organs.
In a word, it has been proved by many scientific researches in China and the West that studying Tai Ji Chuan for many years has certain medical effects on various chronic diseases, such as neurasthenia, hypertension, heart disease, dyspepsia, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, etc. This is an inescapable fact!
Keeping Tai Ji Chuan healthy is a kind of boxing that exercises the body and mind. When practicing boxing, we should pay attention to emotional movement, activate qi with heart, dredge meridians, balance yin and yang, Yang Qi and blood, so as to improve the self-reconciliation ability of yin and yang-that is, the ability of disease resistance and rehabilitation and immunity as mentioned by western medicine.
Tai Ji Chuan has the functions of treating diseases, keeping fit, building body, improving intelligence, inspiring wisdom, stimulating potential, and having both offensive and defensive functions, so as to achieve the purpose of preserving health, improving temperament and improving quality of life.
A Brief History of Yang Tai's Biography
Yang Fukui (1799-1872), a native of Yongnian, Hebei Province, studied under Chen Changxing. Yang Luchan practiced martial arts since childhood. Because of his poor family and forced to make a living, he worked in Taihe Tang, a Chinese medicine shop in Xiguan Street, Guangping. This drugstore belongs to Chen Kai, a native of Chenjiagou, wen county, Jiaozuo, Henan. Chen Jianyang, diligent, trustworthy and capable, sent him to work in Chenjiagou, wen county, Jiaozuo, his hometown. It happened that Chen Changxing borrowed Chen's home as an apprentice. Yang is envious and wants to learn from the teacher, but one thing is very complicated. Both of them are afraid that Chen will not accept himself.
Although he knows all kinds of taboos in the Jianghu, he is eager to learn martial arts. When Chen and his disciples are practicing boxing, he observes and writes down some moves and practices them privately when no one is around. Over time, I actually got something. Later, I saw that he was a talented person. Instead of blaming him, I boldly abandoned my opinions and Jianghu taboos, and discussed with Chen to let him formally study Tai Ji Chuan in his spare time.
carry forward
Yang Luchan was about forty years old when he succeeded. In order to make a living, he first taught Tai Ji Chuan in Yongnian, his hometown, and was recommended to be a disciple in Beijing. Because of his high martial arts, he is known as "invincible Yang". When he gave boxing in Beijing, most of his disciples were princes and nobles, Baylor nobles, who lived in luxury and were sickly and could not bear hardships. Considering the physical quality and health care needs of these people, Yang Luchan simplified some difficult acrobatics in Tai Chi that He Chuan learned, making his posture simpler, his movements softer and easier to practice, which is not only suitable for people wearing robes and braids to practice, but also beneficial to fitness. Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan has been modified by his son and grandson, forming two routines: big and small. It is characterized by softness, generosity, smoothness, rigidity, concealment, lightness and heaviness. As soon as this fist came out, it had a great influence in Beijing and Tianjin, and there were more and more literati.
Boxing inheritance
Yang Banhou is the son of (1839-19 17). He inherited the skills of Sun Yangshaohou and Yang Chengfu (1883-1936). Yang Chengfu took the big rack as the prototype, and finally shaped it into a popular "Yangjia big rack". Yang Jia's Changquan is still taught, but Yang Chengfu's style is the main one. And these four postures are not four sets of boxing, but four ways of playing a set of boxing.