What are the different types of Taijiquan? Which is the oldest?

There are basically these three types of Tai Chi, but there are many schools. According to statistics, there are as many as 26 existing sects. The most powerful and widely circulated Taiji martial art has to be the boxing. There are five major schools of Taijiquan: Chen, Yang, Wu, Wu and Sun. After the founding of New China, there are twenty-four, forty-eight, eighty-eight and forty-two styles of Taijiquan and thirty-two and forty-two styles of Taijiquan sword. The five schools of Taijiquan are introduced as follows:

I. Chen's Taijiquan:

It is mainly taught by Chen Changxing of Chenjiagou in Henan Province, among which Chen Fake is the most famous. It is characterized by the combination of rigidity and flexibility, speed and slowness, and there are new frames, old frames, big frames and small frames.

II. Yang's Taijiquan:

Yang Lu Chan learned boxing from Yang Chang Xing, then went to Beijing to teach boxing and passed it on to his son, Yang Jian Hou, who passed it on to Yang Cheng Fu, who later popularized it. It is characterized by its smoothness and softness, and its generosity.

Three. Wu's Taijiquan:

Wu's Taijiquan:

Wu Yucang first learned from Yang Lu Chan, first learned from Chen Qingping of Zhao Bao of Henan Province, and his brother Wu clarified that he had obtained Wang Zongyue's "Taijiquan谱" (Taijiquan Records) from the Yandian of Maoyang, Henan Province, and Wu Yucang studied it y and improved it, which is characterized by its flexible movements and light and quick footwork.

Four. Sun's Taijiquan:

Planner Sun Lutang, his fist from Hao for real, to improve and become. It is characterized by opening and closing and drumming, small and compact, step live body spirit.

V. Wu's Taijiquan:

Wu Jianquan learned from his father, Wu Quanyou (Yang Lu Chan's disciple), and later developed his own system. It is characterized by flexibility, compactness and moderate size.

Additionally, Taijiquan can be categorized into the following three types according to the size of the frame:

I. Big frame style:

Chen's, Yang's, eighty-eight, twenty-four and forty-two styles usually adopt big frame style. The big frame style is characterized by the fist stretching generous, light and calm at the same time.

Two. Medium frame style:

Wu's Taijiquan is the representative of the medium-sized frame, which is good at softening.

Three. Small Frame Style:

Sun's Taijiquan is the representative of the small and compact frame style, and the step is alive.

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