History of Taijiquan

Since Chen Wangting created Taijiquan more than three hundred years ago, Taijiquan has become a fitness sport for all people and has long been out of the country, and its profound cultural and philosophical connotations have y won the favor of the world. However, to this day, Taijiquan does not have any clothing that can satisfy people's mind, or there is not yet a series of clothing for practicing and participating in performances of walking frame, pushing hand and dispersing hand. From the name of Taijiquan style, it can be seen that our forefathers also felt that their clothes were not convenient for practicing, such as "Rangzha Yi" is to indicate that it is inconvenient to put down the front of the long shirt and tie it at the waist before practicing boxing. We know that the clothing of the Qing Dynasty is still robes and coats and melon hats, after the Opium War, the western winds of the East to the Republic of China people cut the pigtails and also wore a short lapel pants, so the formation of taiji in recent decades of tight-sleeved fat shirts and lantern pants. Although it can not be said that it is a progress, it can not be said that people wear the white loose Tai Chi clothing line of clouds and water like walking frame line work is a beautiful scenery, but from the Chinese dress culture and Tai Chi culture to examine the level of Tai Chi clothing will feel the lack of modern awareness and aesthetic color from ancient times clothing is a status symbol, which represents a person's political status and social status. Clothing for human beings is the primary function of sheltering the body from the cold, when human clothing civilization out of the practical purpose of the era after its function is complex. The clothing system in feudal China was one of the important systems for the king's government, and its importance far exceeded the status of clothing in modern society. The most important factor to make the clothing play its function to achieve the purpose of "rule of the world" is the color of the clothing. Clothing color function is to distinguish the status of the second is to indicate the occasion, the ancient monarchs on the subjects have the provisions of the color of clothing, the son of heaven, the vassals, the hundred officials from the sacrificial service, court dress, public service and even the people's clothing is extremely detailed provisions of the common dress. The upper class wore such official uniforms to become the object of people's envy, and thus the uniform color strongly influenced the general popular clothing color. Times change foreign culture into the local culture to produce popular colors, popular colors and in turn affect the uniform color, the two color culture collide with each other as a result of the production of the Lord of a variety of Chinese clothing. Ancient clothing according to wear occasions, can be divided into four categories: dress, court dress, military uniforms, regular clothes. Ancient people practicing martial arts clothing between the uniforms, there is no strict rules of etiquette. After the founding of the country, the extreme left trend of thought, especially the so-called cultural revolution that destroyed the dignity of the struggle for human philosophy continues to heat up, the century since the results of cultural research almost completely negated, clothing culture is also inevitable. History in the reflux of rotating stagnation for more than thirty years, when the Chinese clothing culture research in the mainland is in a state of hiatus, oblivion, rupture, Taiwan's academic community is booming, Wang Yu-ching's "Outline of the History of Chinese Clothing" was published in Taiwan in 1967. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the implementation of reform and opening up created a more relaxed political environment. Foreign cultures, new lifestyles like a tidal wave into the country, quickly spread to urban and rural areas so that the closed Chinese people as a dream. The strong collision of western way of life drove people to wrestle with culture again, and in the complex feelings of resentment and confusion began a profound reflection on traditional culture, including Chinese clothing culture. 1981 Hong Kong's Commercial Press published the famous writer Mr. Shen Congwen's "Study of Ancient Chinese Clothing" to fill the gaps in the study of mainland China's clothing, and for the first time in China's history, it proposed a reexamination and reassessment of the entire Chinese culture. For the first time in China's history, the entire Chinese culture was re-examined and re-evaluated. Since the eighties, the new values of new theoretical doctrines, is a time in the traditional customs and culture and western customs and culture mingling of the whole nation's cultural identity, the process of cultural choice, the result of which the formation of the twenty-first century and the world of academic standards with the pluralistic clothing culture, and tai chi clothing will also be as a bright flower of Chinese clothing culture bloomed.