Our Story
About Zhaobaotaiji
After 15+ years of learning Zhao Bao Tai Chi, my body has become stronger from weaker, and I am free from the pain of diseases and various medicines, I decided to try to let more people know about it and be benefited by it.
Zhaobao Tai Chi is one of the oldest and most primitive forms of Tai Chi in China. It is said to have been founded by Wudang Taoist Zhang Sanfeng and inherited and developed by descendants in Zhaobao Town. Its characteristics are smooth and rounded movements, delicate movements, concise routines, and emphasis on the unity of body and mind, and the combination of inside and outside. Zhaobao Tai Chi is not only a fitness art, but also an exquisite martial art, and is known as the “living fossil of Tai Chi.”
The Story Of Taiji Starts in early 1368.
The story of Wudang Zhao Bao Taijiquan in China began in 1368.Taijiquan is a treasure of China’s ancient health culture. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Lao Tzu has used words and language to expound on the harmony between man and nature, between man and man, and between man and health, and the harmony between cultivating the mind and cultivating the nature, cultivating the mind and cultivating the health, and the philosophy and wisdom of health, morality, and being a human being, which are integrated into the theoretical article “Tao Te Ching,” and have been passed down to the world. However, it is difficult for the world to understand and comprehend it, so it combines its own knowledge of health care with the rules of survival in the natural world, and teaches people to learn to use body language to express and explain the philosophy of health care, cultivation of the mind, and harmony with nature, and that is Taijiquan, which is now popular all over the world.
In the past, it was not called Taijiquan, it was called “danjutsu and jutsu”. It has been handed down to the present day, and was renamed Taijiquan only after it was inherited and developed by the ancestor Zhang Sanfeng in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Fashi, a native of Zhao Bao, returned from learning the art from Wang Zongyue of Shanxi Province, and only then did he pass on the Northern School of Zhao Bao Taijiquan to the world, and it has been developed by successive generations of masters through continuous research and inheritance to the present day. It has been passed on to the 10th generation of “Mr. Zheng Wuqing, the Master of the Generation”, “Mr. Zheng Boying, the Master of the Generation”, “Mr. Hou Chunxiu, the Master of the Generation” and other famous masters in the town of Zhaobao with a history of more than 400 years. It has made Zhaobao Taijiquan blossom all over the world.
Our Features and Core Values
I. Way of Cultivation: Cultivation of Taijiquan follows nature, conforms to nature, conforms to the shape of gas, and conforms to the shape of gas; Taijiquan is based on the natural laws of heaven and earth and human beings, and the essence of the cultivation of the masters of the past dynasties, and combines the cultivation methods of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism into a whole, and it conforms to the laws of nature everywhere, and conforms to the human body’s physiology, and the meridian and collateral theory of traditional Chinese medicine. Boxing to make the meridians and qi and blood unimpeded, the first is to shape the gas. To the internal qi enhancement. The smoothness of their own sense of qi to more positive action, so that the gas better run.
2, Practice of boxing: avoid using stagnant force, especially avoid using the intention; practice taijiquan, to achieve natural relaxation (relaxation is not collapsing soft), is not easy under the control of the idea, using the intention is difficult to achieve the natural relaxation. Laozi” said: “the heart so that the gas is said to be stiff, the heart hides God, God’s intention”; “Nei Jing” cloud: “the heart has to save, God has to return to the right gas to stay and not the gas knot”; unintentionally easy that is called playing boxing, to the void and clean, like a baby playing.
3, Characteristics: this fist is formed in a unique style, the frame is fully embodied in: in, small, close, spiritual, fast, skillful characteristics. From the beginning to the end, it is neutral and round, gentle and flexible, big is stagnant, small is spiritual, close is progressive, and it implements the skillful power of Taijiquan with its own aura, inspiration and sensitivity.
4. Value: It is beneficial to the physical and mental health of human beings, prolongs life, calms the mind and relieves anxiety;
Origin of Wudang Zhaobao Tai Chi
Wudang Zhaobao Tai Chi was created by Zhang Sanfeng, the founder of Wudang Tai Chi. It was passed on to the world by Liu Guquan, a wandering Taoist in Wudang Mountain, and then passed on to Wang Zongyue in Taigu, Shanxi, and then to Jiang Fa in Zhaobao Town, Wen County, Henan. From then on, it took root in Zhaobao Town and was secretly passed down to the tenth generation.
Wudang Taoist Master Zhang Sanfeng
Zhaobao Tai Chi has followed the rules of father-son succession and master-disciple teaching since ancient times, and has the strict training of “boxing does not leave the village”. Until Japan invaded its hometown and the country was in crisis, the tenth generation masters Zheng Wuqing, Zheng Boying, Hou Chunxiu and others moved to Shaanxi and began to select disciples in the army and the people to teach art, breaking the teacher’s training that was not passed on to others. Since then, it has gradually spread to all parts of the country and abroad.
Zhaobao Tai Chi has completely and systematically retained the theory and method created by the founder Zhang Sanfeng, integrating the three aspects of boxing, pushing hands and free-hand into one furnace, and integrating health preservation and martial arts. Its boxing posture is light and flexible, and its movements are stretched and generous. When practicing, the steps are flexible and circular, interlocking, without obvious force movements, and the routine is continuous, with both softness and hardness. After mastering the routine, the circle is gradually transformed into a circle, and the difficulty of the skills is improved from simple to complex. During the practice, after practicing several times, once it is started, others can see it moving in circles, but they can’t find the beginning and the end, just like the endless flow of the Yangtze River and the sea. It is unique in martial arts and has distinct characteristics. It requires static to control dynamic, soft to overcome hard, avoid the real and attack the virtual, and use force to exert force. It advocates that everything should be based on objectivity, and it will be active if it follows others, and it will be stagnant if it follows oneself.
Zhaobao Tai Chi practice always takes nature and comfort as its main purpose. It moves like flowing water, light as floating clouds, and like a three-foot silk dress hanging on a shadowless tree, floating in the wind, soft and natural. The rotation of yin and yang is like the alternation of day and night, with the external form driving the internal rotation, and then the internal movement drives the external movement, like the operation of the four seasons, naturally. It is like a dragon playing in the water, rising and falling, turning left and right, showing postures in all directions, turning in all directions, twisting and twisting, one ring after another, endless circulation, one circle after another, and everywhere is round.
Wudang Zhaobao Tai Chi emphasizes smoothness and naturalness, lightness and flexibility, following up and down, and unity of inside and outside. Practice boxing with a relaxed and playful mentality, combining relaxation and tranquility, and cultivating both sex and life. Long-term practice can make the qi and blood flow smoothly and the mood happy, and has very obvious health and fitness effects.
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