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Art: Calligraphy and Tai Chi
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Calligraphy, like Tai Ji Chuan, as an externalized form of China traditional culture, is very representative. Calligraphy is laid out in the aesthetic standard of the unity of opposites between black and white, and Tai Ji Chuan conveys the spirit of China's philosophy with the power of thirteen potentials in the cutting of Yin-Yang and Five Elements.

The difference between calligraphy and writing is that writing is a practical expression, calligraphy is a lyrical means of freehand brushwork, and writing requires fairness and accuracy, while calligraphy pays attention to temperament. "People who have no backbone can't learn books, and angry people can't learn books, which is extremely impetuous, but deep kung fu can change temperament and cultivate spirit"; The difference between Tai Ji Chuan and Waijia Boxing is that Waijia Boxing pays attention to accuracy, fierceness, quickness and strength, while Tai Ji Chuan pays attention to the realm, the spirit of Taiji, and keeps his limbs soft. "There is no trace of yin and yang when it is quiet, and its movement is soft, but it is soft; It seems that Zhi Gang is actually very soft, combining rigidity with softness, which means: Yin and Yang combine virtue ... "

Calligraphy and Taiji both push rigidity to rigidity and turn softness to softness, and rigidity and softness are only the truth between heaven and earth. There is empty, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the bright future is the spring breeze; The plain is like a mountain, like a wall, like a sonorous stone, like the muddy reality of the wilderness. Both calligraphy and Tai Chi pay attention to cultivation and moral temperament. People without ability and moral integrity are unlikely to get a deep, wide and wide series in the business of calligraphy and Tai Chi Chuan.

Calligraphy pays attention to charm and rhythm, and pays attention to the unity of palm and hand. To achieve an accidental beauty requires long-term unremitting tempering, and the calligrapher's emotion and knowledge reach a perfect state at the moment when paper and pen meet; Tai Chi is more about practicing Qi with your heart, "using Qi without exertion". It is also a slow-moving experience process, and this long-term practice and understanding is the wonderful way to understand China's cultural spirit.

Both calligraphy and Tai Chi pay attention to inheritance and creation.

In the history of calligraphy, from Zhong, Wang to Kang Youwei, Wu Changshuo, Yu Youren, all worked hard on the basis of extensive inheritance and absorption, combining the technical means of calligraphy with the cultivation of personality, the enlightenment of knowledge and the enlightenment of world outlook. They learned from ancient times and achieved their own characteristics.

Tai Ji Chuan has schools such as Chen, Yang, Wu and Sun. They all continue the philosophical foundation of the Book of Changes, and at the same time have their own merits in form. Tai Chi training is slow, one stroke and one style, and it is unhurried. And this slowness is rapid accumulation. It takes a day of hard work and skill to get what you want, and this "what you want in your heart" tells the secret of creation.