Introduction to Five Features of Chen Style Tai Ji Chuan
Tai Ji Chuan is a treasure of China Wushu, which is divided into many schools, each with its own unique characteristics. Let's learn the characteristics of Chen Taiji's biography.
Features 1. Looks like a virgin, but looks like king kong inside.
There are many schools of martial arts in China, including hundreds of boxing methods. Each school has its own unique characteristics. To sum up, it is nothing more than two schools inside and outside. Waijiaquan is mainly about punching, kicking, jumping and prancing, with obvious offensive and defensive meaning, which makes people know it is martial arts at a glance.
Chen Tai Ji Chuan is unique, guiding qi with meaning and transporting the body with qi; Internal gas is motionless, deformation is silent, internal pneumatic, and shape follows pneumatic; Driven by internal qi, the shape follows up and down, continuously, with the waist as the axis, continuously, without losing the top, turning around, running slowly and stopping silently.
Its offensive and defensive meanings are mostly hidden inside, but generally not obvious, which often makes people mistake this boxing for fishing, not martial arts.
Especially the old frame, which is mainly soft, requires the whole body to relax and has no rigid strength. Mainly to exercise the next set of kung fu, so that the first step can take root, flexibly turn hips, dredge qi and blood, and practice internal qi, which means reaching qi, reaching strength, standing upright and supporting from all sides.
Make the internal and external parts of the body build a solid defense line and form a body with five bows and hidden hair. In this way, if you don't meet the enemy, you have strength inside, such as thunder and wind, so you look like a virgin outside and like a king kong inside. This is a major feature of Chen Taiji's biography.
Feature 2: Luck method of spiral winding
Everyone has seen broken bricks on his head and steel bars around his neck. This is a lucky method of hard qigong. Internal gas is transported to the top of the head, and the head can break bricks; When it is transported to the neck, it can wrap the steel bar. Chen Tai Ji Chuan combined mechanics and meridian theory, and adopted the luck method of spiral winding to make small strength better than strong strength, and weak strength better than strong strength.
This action is like lifting a freight car weighing several tons with a small jack.
The accumulation and development of the so-called Taiji Chuan, the failure of absorbing strength, hitting people hard and using four or two strokes of a thousand pounds, are all the roles played by spiral strength. So the boxing theory says:? Empty cage deceives and lures, just for a turn. ?
In terms of meridians, meridians refer to the channels of qi and blood in human body, which start from viscera and flow to limbs. When the qi and blood of zang-fu organs and meridians are out of balance, the mental machine is abnormal and diseases occur; Harmony leads to smooth blood flow, physical fitness and longevity.
According to Tai Ji Chuan's theory of warping, boxing and guiding qi are exterior and interior, and the boxing posture adopts spiral winding and telescopic rotation. What are the requirements? Guide qi with intention and transport the body with qi? ,? The gas should be pumped up and filled with the whole body? Internal qi starts in the abdomen, runs through the waist as the axis, and rotates slightly, so that the waist gap (two kidneys) is pumped around.
It is distributed throughout the body by rotating the waist and spine and winding; Tongren and Dumai, the upper method turns the wrist into an arm, and the lower method turns the ankle into a knee, reaching four o'clock and returning. The action arc is round and coherent, with one stroke and one potential, connecting the preceding with the following, and the blood circulation is completed in one go. This is luck.
It is different from exertion, and this systematic luck method conforms to the meridian theory, which is also rare in other boxing and sports.
Third, combine martial arts with guided breathing.
Breathing and exhaling is a long-standing way of keeping in good health in China, which was recorded in Laozi and Mencius hundreds of years before BC. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Liu An, the son of Huainan, compiled Six Birds Plays, and Hua Tuo, a famous doctor at the end of the Han Dynasty, changed Five Birds Plays. He imitates animal movements, such as moving, shaking, stretching, tilting, looking around and jumping, combined with breathing movements.
Used for health exercise, it is the predecessor of qigong and internal strength, and it is also the basis of Taoist health preservation. Chen-style Tai Ji Chuan organically combines guidance, breathing and coordinated movements of hands, eyes, posture and footwork, and becomes a kind of internal boxing.
This not only plays a good role in strengthening the body, but also is a creative development to improve boxing fighting skills.
Fourth, Chen Taiji preached both rigidity and softness.
Stiffness and softness are opposites. However, Chen Taijichuan did achieve the combination of rigidity and softness in the whole routine, and achieved the combination of rigidity and softness. The Boxing Manual stipulates: The kung fu of sports is to change strength into softness first, and then practice softness into rigidity. Even so, it is a combination of rigidity and softness.
You can only see yin and yang by combining rigidity with softness. Therefore, boxing can not be named just, nor can it be named soft, and it is directly named etheric. ? Why should Tai Ji Chuan's strength be based on combining rigidity with softness? Because of the strength of rigidity but not softness, it is not tough, easy to break and easy to get hurt, so it has no practical value of martial arts. It is useless to have only soft strength without rigidity, because it has lost its explosive power.
So the boxing theory points out:? But there is a difference between rigidity and softness, but there is a difference in hair quality and use. The limbs are vigorous, the shape of qi is outside, the interior is quiet and heavy, and the strength is strong; Qi is gentle and soft from the inside out. You can't be soft with rigidity, and you can't surround it quickly without softness; You can't use softness without rigidity, and you can't push without rigidity.
It is natural to combine rigidity and softness, stick, swim, connect, follow, soar, flash, fold, empty, collapse, hit, squeeze and press. You can't be too rigid and too soft, and you can't suddenly exert yourself! ? Combining rigidity with softness, as far as Qi and God are concerned, it is expressed through concealment and manifestation, with concealment being softness and manifestation being rigidity.
In terms of posture, it is expressed by opening and closing. The combination is soft and the opening is rigid (that is, the storage is soft and the hair is rigid).
Feature 5: Consciousness, breathing and movement are closely combined.
Chen and Tai Ji Chuan's internal and external skills are both internal and external, and the movements of internal boxing are all carried out under the guidance of consciousness. ? E2: That is, mind and consciousness. Chen Xin's boxing theory says: Priority boxing? ,? Wonderful machines are from the heart? ,? Is it true to use it in your heart? . ? The heart is dominant, and all five senses are obedient? .
? Q: Master of Operations? Yue: the Lord is in the heart, and if the heart wants to move left and right alternately, then the left and right hands and feet move alternately; If the heart wants to rotate in a smooth circle with the power of winding silk, the left and right hands should rotate in a smooth circle with the power of winding silk; The heart wants to sink the elbows and loosen the shoulders, and the elbows are heavy and the shoulders are loose; The heart wants to close the chest and abdomen forward, the waist collapses, the crotch is round, and the chest wants to close the abdomen forward, the waist brakes, and the crotch is round.
If the heart wants to bend its knees, both knees should bend their knees, the right foot runs with the right hand, the left foot runs with the left hand, and both knees and left and right feet should follow, otherwise it will be full of flaws and exhaustion, and this official has to obey the heart. So I said: the heart is the master of the body's operation. The above is the relationship between mind and action.
"On Boxing" goes: Boxing regulates qi and blood, naturally breathes, constantly adjusts breath, practices internal strength, and pays attention to the entrance. Run gently, stop silently, but run meaningfully. ? Therefore, there is a close relationship between consciousness, breathing and exercise.