Tai Chi is an important representative school of Chinese martial arts. It takes the Tai Chi and Yin-Yang dialectics in traditional Chinese Confucian and Taoist philosophy as its core ideas, and integrates multiple functions such as nourishing temperament, strengthening the body, and fighting. It combines the changes of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements in Yixue, the meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the dual cultivation of sex and life in Taoism, and the ancient Daoyin and breathing techniques to form an excellent traditional Chinese boxing that cultivates both inside and outside, is gentle, slow, light, and combines hardness and softness. In the long process of development, various styles have been formed, mainly Zhaobao style, Yang style, Chen style, Wu style, Sun style, Wu style.
Zhang Chuchen succeeded Xing Xihuai and became the third generation master of Zhaobao Dajiquan. He was loyal and simple, and he followed the rules. There was no record of his outstanding deeds after he achieved…
Xing Xihuai was born in the 23rd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (approximately from 1595 to 1671) and lived in the South Street of Zhaobao Town. After Xing Gong’s apprenticeship, he studied the…
In the world of conventional medical science, the health-related benefits of Tai Chi and Qigong may have once been overlooked. However, now some of the leading experts in medicine are fully recognizing these practices as…
This gentle form of exercise can help maintain strength, flexibility, and balance, and could be the perfect activity for the rest of your life. Tai chi is often described as “meditation in motion,” but it…
