Mnemonic for 42-Style Taijiquan

The mnemonic of 42-Style Taijiquan is as follows:

Starting stance, right bird's tail, left single whip, lifting hand

White crane bright wings, straddling knee and bending step, skimming body pounding, stroking and squeezing stance?

Progressing the blocking punch, such as sealing like a closed door, open and close the hand, right single whip?

The bottom of the elbow, turn and push the palm, the Jade Maiden shuttle, the left and right stirrups

Covering the hand and humerus pounding, the wild horse parting the mane, the cloud hand, the independent tiger

Right foot splitting, the double peaks penetrate the ear, the left foot splitting, the turn and pat the foot

Progressing the planting pounding, the oblique flying posture, the single whip downward, the Golden Rooster Independence

Retrogressing and wearing a palm, the false step and pressure on the palm, the independent palm rest, the horse stance to lean

The big stroke, resting step and twisting step, the single whip to lean on the palm, the horse stance to lean on the palm

Turning around and stroking, resting step and tackling, through the palm downward posture, upward step seven stars?

Retreating the Tiger, Turning and Swinging Lotus, Bending the Bow and Shooting the Tiger, Left Ranging the Sparrow's Tail?

Cross Hands, Closing Stance

Expanded Information:

Forty-two Taijiquan styles

1, Yang-style Taijiquan as a base, absorbing the movements of Chen, Wu, and Sun-style Taijiquan, inheriting the characteristics of the traditional taijiquan continuous, relaxed, soft, and rounded natural movements, and fully highlighting the intention of taijiquan to lead the body to follow the technical requirements. It also fully emphasizes the technical requirements of Taijiquan that the mind leads the body and the body follows the body.

2. It is a comprehensive set of Taijiquan practice routines with the use of Chen-style Taijiquan's power generating movements, Wu-style Taijiquan's delicate maneuvers, Sun-style Taijiquan's opening and closing maneuvers and flexible footwork changes.

Taijiquan contains the truth of the limit of time and space, which explains the origin of the universe and the process of creation and evolution of all things in heaven and earth. The ancients believed that Tai Chi represented the universe, the original state before the chaos of heaven and earth and the division of yin and yang.

Taiji diagram is the external manifestation of the connotation of "Taiji": black and white colors represent the two sides of yin and yang, and the two parts of heaven and earth; the human part that divides heaven and earth into yin and yang is the boundary between the black and white sides. The black dot in the white color indicates that there is a yin in the yang; the white dot in the black color indicates that there is a yang in the yin. The two are unified in the Taiji diagram, which completely expresses the profound connotation of "Taiji".

Origin of Taiji

Taiji was first mentioned in Zhuangzi. The "Taiji Diagram" is said to have been handed down by Chen Tuan, a Taoist priest of the Song Dynasty, and was originally called the "Wuji Diagram". Chen Tuan was a Taoist priest from the Fifth Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty, who had deep attainments in both the art of internal alchemy and the science of Yijing.

According to historical records, Chen Tuan had passed on the "Picture of the Ancestral Heaven", "Taiji Diagram", as well as "Hetu" and "Luoshu" to his student, Seed Fang, who used them to pass them on to Mu Xiu, Li Irong and others, and then Mu Xiu passed on the "Taiji Diagram" to Zhou Dunyi. Zhou Dunyi wrote "Taiji Diagram" to explain it. Now we see the Taiji diagram, is Zhou Dunyi transmitted.

Zhou Dunyi, on the one hand, absorbed the Taijitu from Chen Tuan's school of Yijing and gave it a new interpretation; on the other hand, he inherited the tradition of the Han and Tang schools of righteousness, and was the forerunner of the Song and Ming Taoists in the interpretation of Yijing.