Footwork of Yang Style Taijiquan

Three, point start point fall, step like a cat

Clean and clear never dragged, the ground does not allow the slightest traces of dragging, God like a cat line soft and gentle and silent. Taijiquan step like a cat, Xingyiquan step like a plow, Bagua boxing step like a trip mud, this is the three major internal boxing step characteristics, although the reference to a different form of different, the essence is the same, are required to contain the meaning of the line, do not allow the air up and down.

We carefully observe it is not difficult to find that the cat's steps contain ?

When we look carefully, it's easy to see that the cat's gait contains a "sticky? There is absolutely no planing. or? Jumping pit? The suspicion that no matter how fast or slow, always maintain the characteristics of the point of the start and fall, the characteristics of the cat's footsteps can be personalized in two words: up as lotus roots are connected with the intention of a long time, down as a kiss to the baby feelings. Taijiquan draws on the connotation of the cat's footsteps to take the meaning of the elephant.

Stepping like a cat reflects the lightness of the Yang Style Taijiquan footwork, and also contributes to the flexibility of the footwork.

How to realize the step like a cat in Yang Style Taijiquan? We need to maintain a neutral posture, body relaxation, with sufficient leg strength, which is a prerequisite for the realization of the steps of light up and light down. Striding emphasizes the waist and hips to drive the operation of the legs, the two legs of the virtual reality must be clear, the virtual light with the idea of arbitrary, the real hidden savings in the loose and soft to release freely, up and down with the coordination. When you step up, pay full attention to:

1, waist open crotch round crotch, hip drop lengthen lumbar vertebrae to promote the spine upward to realize the virtual spirit of the top of the force, the knee of the supporting leg should be appropriate to spread out and make sure to maintain the same direction with the toes.

2, the foot to the outside of the mill turn crotch must be fully adductor, equivalent to open the gateway to the future, and at the same time the heel of the rear leg off the ground forefoot is still glued to the ground, can not be steeply drawn up, the center of gravity of the body gradually transitioned to the load-bearing leg.

3, the force of the back leg originates from the waist and hips of the carry, the foot retracted out of the running track is very clear into the sphere.

4, the front toes as a guide to explore the step out, a big ? Like walking on thin ice? The feeling of the heel gently stepped out to point to live on the ground, the toes naturally upward, potential non-stop back leg forward stirrups, the front foot by the heel, foot, toes in turn on the ground to form a bow step, must guide the section through the transportation of energy way.

The front calf is as vertical as possible, not leaning forward, the knee slightly backward force should not be forward arching force, this is the maintenance of the knee and the need for technical combat, to be elaborated separately. In the process of stepping, the body should maintain the same height as far as possible, and all the movements should run in a continuous and even speed, fully reflecting the realm of lightness.

The most common mistake in practicing Yang-style Taijiquan is? The most common faults in practicing Yang Style Taijiquan are? and? The most common faults in practicing Yang style Taijiquan are jumping pit leg and planing leg. The so-called jumping pit leg is to step forward with the weight of the forward leap landing, planing leg is to step on the heel from the ground higher hard fall, like with the head planing like. This is the sick leg. The reason why it is said to be pathological is that the moment of landing is out of control, contrary to the principle of standing upright to support the eight sides.

Characteristics of Yang-style Taijiquan

Boxing style

Yang-style Taijiquan is a beautifully spreading fist frame, a neutral body, a smooth movement, a flat and solid, a loose and flexible, rigid and soft, and it comes together in a single stroke, as if it were a boat in the middle of the lake, light and calm at the same time. The practice method is simple and popular among the general public, so it is the most widely spread.

Yang style Taijiquan movement requirements such as the Yangtze River, the river. The completion of this movement is the beginning of the next movement, which is continuous. The mental method also requires a single breath of air.

The body is upright and comfortable

As early as in the 1930s, Mr. Yang Chengfu put forward the idea that Taijiquan has ten essentials. Mr. Yang Chengfu put forward the "Ten Essentials of Taijiquan" as early as the 1930s.

The main requirement is the body style. The main requirement is the body method. In particular, Yang's Taijiquan is the most outstanding.

It includes two aspects: one is to practice the body method to be positive, most of the action should make the upper and lower three points [i.e., Hundred Points, the Yin point, the Yongquan point] basically to maintain the upper and lower vertical neutralization, the formation of a vertical line of gravity, the body can not be bent over backwards and forwards. Secondly, the coccyx should be maintained in the center, from the large vertebrae points to the coccyx area [Changqiang points] to maintain the relaxation of the spine vertically, the formation of the upper and lower pull long, and the coccyx should be like a rudder to guide the direction of the ship. In the case of physical and mental relaxation, to do the above two aspects, can reflect the characteristics of the body upright Anshu.

This characteristic of Yang-style Taijiquan, many famous masters have seen teachings. Mr. Wang Yongquan, Yang Chengfu's senior footman, imagined the human body as an ancient clock: the clock for the neck, the top of the clock for the shoulder circle, the clock body for the waist circle, the clock enclosure for the crotch circle, the central vertical line for the clock rope, the clock hammer is tied to the lower end of the central vertical line, which is the so-called five points of the bronze clock, which emphasizes that the upright body is very much in the right place.

Mr. Li Di, a famous Yang-style taijiquan master, hung a pair of couplets in his living room, the first line is? The top line is "The body is upright and the spine is erected". It also emphasizes that the body is upright and comfortable.

The unique style of Yang-style Taijiquan is to be generous in its stance

Only by being generous does it help the limbs. Only when it is carried out in a big way can it help to pull the limbs up and down, left and right, and to carry out the boxing frame in a big way requires that the body should be relaxed inside and outside, and that the hands and feet should be in place. Typical posture of up and down pulling and pulling is like? White Crane Shining Wings? Left and right on the pull long to carry out generous, measure the fist frame action is in place, whether to carry out generous, is an important criterion.

The action is slow and loose

This is one of the most prominent features of Yang Style Taijiquan, and it is also the main reason why Yang Style Taijiquan is famous at home and abroad. Yang Luchan went to Chenjiagou in Henan Province to learn boxing from Chen Changxing for many years and formed his own school. Yang Style Taijiquan does not have any obvious forceful movements like Chen's Taijiquan's bouncing, jumping, and foot shaking, and it has formed its own unique style of big pine and big softness. This is a unique way of practicing to increase the power from loose to soft, and to make the softness into hardness. It is also a method for young and old to strengthen their bodies. It is said that Yang Chengfu taught boxing, emphasized the most is also a loose word, he often said:? Pine! Pine! Pine! I do not tell you, three lifetimes can not learn. He watched his disciples practicing boxing for half a day without saying a word, but sometimes he had to say the word "pine" dozens of times. This kind of big pine, big soft, sheep in the needle style of boxing, also in line with the originator of Chinese Taoism Laozi, softness is better than strength, the philosophical idea of doing nothing.

Uniform speed of action

Some Taijiquan sects emphasize that the power is strong between fast and slow, while Yang-style Taijiquan emphasizes that it is slow and soft, and especially emphasizes that the speed should be uniform. It is taboo to move fast and slow, and the frame is high and low. Speed uniformity includes the entire routine from the starting position to the closing position, but also includes a single action hand and foot running with the speed of coordination, but also includes the previous action and the next action of the over articulation of natural and coordinated. It takes about twenty-two minutes to play a set of eighty-five traditional routines, and for those who are good at underhand work, they can play for forty minutes to an hour, while the speed of the starting posture determines the speed of the whole routine. The speed of the start determines the speed of the whole routine.

? Steps like a cat walking, movement like a draw? The speed of the movement should not be different from the speed of the movement. The unique feature of Yang's Taijiquan is that, although individual movements can be done a little faster, on the whole it is like flowing water. Even if it is? Turning and swinging lotus? and? Turning and left stomping foot? Even the movements such as the turn and left stomping foot, still emphasize the speed of uniformity.

The stances are clear

Yang Chengfu in the article "Taijiquan said ten things", the beginning of the proposed Taijiquan art, to the clear separation of real and virtual as the first key, the clear separation of real and virtual in the first place, it can be seen that the clear separation of real and virtual for the practice of Yang's taijiquan of the importance of it. Yang's eighty-five style Taijiquan from beginning to end, each move and each style are required to achieve the distinction between reality and falsehood, and the vast majority of the action is a leg to bear most of the weight, when the weight of the whole body sits on the right leg, then the right leg is the real left leg for falsehood, when the weight of the whole body sits on the left leg, then the left leg is the real right leg for falsehood, and the action of the two legs to bear the weight on the average is extremely rare, in addition to the starting position, cloud hand, the right hit the tiger style to turn back to the body with the right stomping foot of the excessive Except for the starting stance, cloud hand, right hitting tiger style turning back to the right stomping foot, there is a short horse stance in the movement, the rest are almost all one leg virtual and one leg real! And Yang Taijiquan in the virtual and real mutual conversion, and are half-void, half-real, full virtual and full-real gradual transfer, such as the feet on the ground from virtual to real: forward heel first on the ground, the palm of the foot and the foot finger landing in turn, and finally all the solid, just like the Yin and Yang fish in the Taijiquan diagram of the situation of the mutual growth of the Yin and Yang fish, such a clear distinction between the real and virtual boxing frame features in the Yang's taijiquan in the whole routine is very prominent.

Circularity and coherence

? Round? It means that all the movements of Taijiquan are in an arc-shaped semicircle. Live? It means that the movements are not stagnant. Up and down follow each other, step with the body change, manual movement, waist movement, foot movement, eyes also move with the movement, a movement has no immobility, a static has no not static. The circle of Tai Chi is like a sphere in three-dimensional space, touching any point will cause the whole sphere to rotate and shift around, next to where where to turn. Coherent, is the action between the articulation is very close, there is no obvious break in the phenomenon, such as clouds and water, the Yangtze River waves, continuous.

As long as you observe carefully, you can find that Yang Style Taijiquan movements are very coherent, and the end of the previous movement is the beginning of the next movement, which makes it difficult to find out the starting and stopping boundaries between movements. Such as? Left knee-wrapping stance? Then? Hand Waving Pipa? A posture, when embracing the left knee to push the right palm, with the right palm little finger leading the strength of the side palm forward at the same time, with the inertia of the body moving forward, the right leg heel naturally lifted up, followed by a half-step forward, into the? Hand Waving Pipa? The beginning of this movement. Take the beginning and ending of this movement as follows. Left knee-wrapping stance of? Hap? is at the same time the beginning of "Wave the pipa with your hand"? What's the meaning of the "Pipa"? Up?

The waist makes the limbs move

The Thirteen Positions Song of Taijiquan by Zhang Zifeng says: "The source of life is the waist gap. All Taijiquan styles emphasize the waist as the master. The waist is the master. The waist is the axis of Taijiquan. The waist is the axis. The waist is the axis. Taiji waist bagua palm? etc., all indicate that Taijiquan emphasizes the use of the waist. Yang's Taijiquan is even more so, the requirements of the waist is particularly high, particularly strict. Yang style taijiquan pick up test body method is correct, there is no? The main thing to check is whether there is something on the waist. , mainly to see whether there is something on the waist.

Yang's ancestors have summarized:? waist? A move all around the body are moving,? The waist? A static body are quiet,? The waist does not move, the hand does not send? What do you mean? If you want your body to move, you need to move your waist first. and other valuable experiences. Yang's Taijiquan family heir Yang Zhenji emphasized: Yang's Taijiquan must practice waist-based, all movements rely on the waist to move, waist pull, waist turn, waist hands and feet, he explained each movement, all the requirements of the waist movement, the introduction of the very detailed, very in place. When Master Zhao Bin taught Yang's Taijiquan routines, he emphasized? The body makes the limbs? but not "the limbs make the body". The limbs make the body. The so-called "body makes the limbs". The body makes the limbs. What do you mean by that? The body? refers to the waist. Make? refers to the meaning of driving, that is, when practicing the fist through the loose shoulder and loose waist to guide and drive the movement of the limbs. It requires that when practicing boxing, the gas of the upper limbs should be sunk on the waist, and the gas of the lower limbs should be mentioned on the waist, so as to really turn the waist into the movement of the body. Firing point? For the limbs, don't move without initiative, but under the domination of the waist, the rotation of the body to pull the arm rotation, when the body sinks, let the center of the earth attraction to guide the arm to sink, when the forward style backward, let the body drive the arm displacement. The body makes the limbs? These four words are concise and profound. Concentrate on reflecting the obvious characteristics of Yang style taijiquan body method.

The main features of Yang-style Taijiquan are summarized by a senior master in a concise manner as follows. The main feature of Yang Style Taijiquan is summarized as "to be loose and soft, and to emphasize the sinking power". Mr. Gu Shuping, a famous master of Yang-style Taijiquan in Shanghai, who has been practicing Yang-style Taijiquan for 60 years and is quite powerful, thinks that one of the distinctive features of Yang-style Taijiquan is that it is sinking whenever it turns. Whenever you turn, you must sink. This four-word summary reflects the unique style of Yang's Taijiquan which is different from other Taijiquan styles. Whenever you turn, you must sink. highlights the sinking power, not only in a certain fist movement, but also throughout the entire routine, in which the "sinking power" is not only shown in a certain fist movement, but also in the entire routine. Whenever you turn, you must sink. is a very obvious regularity performance.

Yang style Taijiquan practice must hit the sinking force, if you can not hit the sinking force that will not hit the traditional Yang's large frame of the fist flavor, only to cite? The reverse chasing monkey? The practice of the style as an example, this action is? Whenever you turn, you must sink?

Yang Zhenji, the fourth generation of Yang-style Taijiquan, said in the book Yang Chengfu Taijiquan:? In the book "Yang Chengfu Taijiquan", he said: "Inverted Monkey". The mystery of the style lies in the fact that when the sinking force is released, the waist and hips should be loosened, and the air should be sunk into the dantian, so that the force can reach the hand from the foot and the waist, and the monkey should be chased backward. Inverted chasing monkey? How to take the sinking force of a style? Mr. Zhao Jifu, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, has published an article in the Wudang Magazine titled "The Rough Experience of Practicing the Inverted Monkey Style", which he discussed in this way: "The left inverted monkey left foot retreated. Left inverted chuffing monkey left foot retreated to stand, the first to bend the left knee, fall left crotch, the body with the breath and waist, crotch, crotch sinking into a potential, then the life door to support the back, containing the chest and pulling the back, sinking the shoulders and falling elbows, the back of the left wrist is completely loose, the internal energy stored enough, and then the waist and crotch pulling, with the body left to shift, the center of gravity in favor of the left leg, the top of the lead up, the gas sinks into the Dantian, and down to the Yongquan point, the left palm with the back of the body, downward to the left crotch fell on the outer side of the front, and finally, the right foot palms grinding the monkey style. Finally, the right palm is crushed and the right palm is pushed forward, forming a sinking, pulling and hitting trend. In addition to the inverted chu chu monkey, there is a single whip, cloud hand, move blocking whack, wild horse split mane, embrace the knee step, etc., where there is a turn of the action, almost always have to sink the body posture, this sinking exercise is exactly the push hands when the production of the spring force? Spring force? This kind of practice is the solid foundation of spring force when pushing hands, so? Whenever you turn, you must sink. This is a universal rule of Yang's Taijiquan.

Outstanding physical effect

The essence of Taijiquan is mainly technical combat, self-defense and self-defense. Yang's taijiquan is more so, it emphasizes the dip sticky even with, not lost not top, outside the soft internal rigid, sheep needle, implied hair power, hidden but not exposed, hit people do not show the shape, it is self-sacrifice from others, the introduction of the fall empty, soft to overcome the rigid, after the first control, four two pull the jack of a thousand pounds of the unique style of combat, shocking the world of martial arts.

Intangible Cultural Heritage

As early as in 1956 and 1959, the National Sports Committee wrote the 24-Style Simplified Taijiquan, the 88-Style Taijiquan, and the 88-Style Taijiquan, based on the Yang Chengfu Boxing Frame. Since its promotion, it has been well received by the general public. In order to meet the needs of the development of Taijiquan at home and abroad, the Wushu Research Institute of the State Sports Commission has compiled four Taijiquan competition routines (Yang, Chen, Wu and Sun), whose movements are required to be arranged according to the traditional practice method, and which will play an important role in the future development of domestic and foreign Taijiquan sports. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, and on May 20, 2006, the heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.