Sun Shi Tai Ji Chuan's opening and closing mode

Sun-style Tai Ji Chuan is also called "opening and closing Tai Ji Chuan". In the whole routine, "opening the hand" and "closing the hand" are the key points of the connection. There are 13 opening and closing movements in the full set of 97 styles (including opening and closing styles), accounting for 26 styles. The proportion is the highest among all sports, accounting for about 27%. Why did the founder of Sun Lutang design so many opening and closing movements when he created this set of Tai Ji Chuan, and took pains to let the learners review their exercises? Among them, Mr. Sun Jianyun, a former teacher, said, outline and make the finishing point. For example, "Tai Chi means opening and closing, and opening and closing means Tai Chi", "Tai Chi is nothing more than yin and yang, but actually opening and closing in boxing", "One yin and one yang means Tao, and one opening and closing means boxing", "Tai Chi people are also angry; Put it in Liuhe, and the volume is hidden. If you turn it on, it will be turned on and off, and so on. Opening and closing is the most basic connotation of Tai Ji Chuan, which embodies the essence of Tai Ji Chuan. Tai Ji Chuan takes "Tai Chi" as its name. Taiji is widely spread and everywhere. We ancients thought it was "Qi". Laozi said: "The Tao gives birth to one, two, three and everything. "Everything in the world is born of this' qi'. So "Tai Chi" means "Qi", and "Qi" means "Tai Chi". Tai Ji Chuan can also be called "Qi Quan". This is not far-fetched, but the essence of Tai Ji Chuan. It is a pictographic boxing with "Qi" as the simulation object.

"Qi" has no fixed form. It can flow, expand and compress. "If you let it go, it will be six, and if you roll it, it will be hidden", which vividly describes the freedom of gas opening and closing. People who practice Tai Ji Chuan seek to experience the feeling, softness, flow and expansion of Qi in all directions. With these three points, Tai Ji Chuan's body and function are ready. Soft, external force can't hurt me, "but since the water is still flowing, although we cut it with a sword", how much more angry? If you move, you will get a chance. "The soldiers are unpredictable, and the water is unpredictable." Others don't know me, but I know people alone. And expansion (that is, opening and closing) is the most critical, which is the use of qi. The work done by gas is between expansion and contraction. All explosions in the world are caused by the rapid expansion of gas, and its power is well known, so the use of Taiji Chuan is also imitated here. The purpose of boxing is to release the opponent, that is, to open, spit, stretch and exert oneself; If you want to release, you must first adjust yourself, so that you can get the opportunity, that is, put it in, swallow it, shrink it and accumulate strength. Therefore, no matter how many movements Tai Ji Chuan has, it is actually the expansion and contraction of limbs, the deduction of opening and closing, and the change of opening and closing. From this point of view, it is not too much to say that "opening and closing is the essence of Tai Ji Chuan". The significance of opening and closing lies not only in the hieroglyph of Qi in Taiji biography, but also in the universal law of the universe. From the universe to elementary particles, everything is opening and closing.

Look at human society again. "It is said that the general trend of the world, long-term division will be combined, long-term division will be divided", and human history is developing in constant opening and closing.

Therefore, Tai Ji Chuan's opening and closing can't just take images from Qi, but should be integrated into the laws of the universe and the fist. The fundamental reason lies in the yin-yang principle of Tai Chi. If the concretization of Yin and Yang is replaced by opening and closing, being obedient, taking in and out, retracting, and combining rigidity with softness, wouldn't Tai Ji Chuan's truth be all in it? Open is smooth, open, spit and stiff, and close is reverse, close, swallow and soft. Speaking of this, "Tai Chi is opening and closing, and opening and closing is Tai Chi" is logical. As for how to realize opening and closing in Tai Ji Chuan's practice, first of all, we should set a goal in our consciousness, that is, both body and mind can "vaporize" and be integrated with nature like qi, opening and closing freely, stretching freely, broad and subtle, and continuous. When practicing boxing, they should try their best to get close to this goal. That is to say, when practicing boxing, you can't just think about your limbs and movements, but imagine yourself as a big balloon that expands and contracts freely with the movement of the boxing track. If you don't have such a goal in mind, even if you try harder, you can only go in the opposite direction.

To achieve the state of opening and closing freely, you need to practice step by step.

The first step is to stand up straight and practice your strength. In this step, we should practice opening and closing, and practice the power of fluency. Opening means opening. The bigger the opening, the better. The bigger the opening, the better. The bigger the opening, the better. Let go of your power, let go of your power and shake your power. Tai Ji Chuan should be firm in softness, firm in softness, and firm in softness, which is the practice of kung fu. It is the softness of "everything is uncomfortable around the fingers", and it is the softness from the beginning to the softness. Only when you practice to a considerable extent can you feel soft. Therefore, the first step in practicing Jin Ming is not not not to be soft, but to be impossible to be soft. The idea at this time is that opening is opening, closing is closing, and meaning, qi and force are consistent. In Zen Buddhism, it is "seeing mountains is mountains and water is water". Mr. Yang Chengfu once said: "A shelf is nothing more than opening and closing. The so-called openers not only let go of their hands and feet, but also open their minds with them. The so-called meticulous workers not only fit their hands and feet, but also share their hearts. " Only when we are truly open and closed can we understand what is open and what is closed. We can open it if we want, and close it if we want. At this time, it is inevitable that you can't move smoothly and freely, sometimes intermittently, competing with others and losing, but it doesn't matter. You still have to patiently experience the taste of opening and closing, the feeling of turning around and hitting, the difference between turning around and hitting should be clear, and you should dare to accept and put down, approach and put down.

The second step is to open and close secretly and cultivate dark energy. With the smooth strength foundation of the previous step, it is necessary to practice the opposing strength, that is, the usual internal strength, opening and closing, opening and closing, opening and closing, every move, there is a natural symmetry and balance between heart, qi and force. The whole body is like a balloon that expands and contracts. The ball is the most symmetrical of all objects, with no edges and corners, no defects, so there is no weakness. The key to achieve harmony between opening and closing is the mind, which should precede the body. As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of not being able to do it, you are afraid of being unexpected. That's what it means. If you want people to walk ten feet, your heart must walk three feet, five feet or even ten feet. Previous experience said that "boxing should be like someone, and fighting with others should be like no one", which refers to this kind of dark energy. At this time, compared with the bright stage, it is already "seeing mountains is not mountains, and seeing water is not water". If practicing Ming strength is masculine, then dark strength is feminine, introverted, and strength is not exposed, and there is no interruption or loss between power transformations. Between gestures, the joints of the whole body should be like countless small rubber bands pulling in all directions. No matter how you move, you must overcome the resistance. The process of overcoming is the process of long strength. So, what are these little rubber bands? It's your mind, the so-called "unity of mind and mind, unity of heart and qi, unity of strength". Only when your thoughts arrive can you have them. In other words, practicing inverse strength is to find it with your mind, not to fight hard. Not only can you not find your own internal strength, but you will lose your original strength. Only relax and look for it, and gradually strengthen the training of ideas in the process of letting nature take its course.

In fact, there is no clear boundary between bright strength and dark strength. It doesn't mean that I have practiced bright strength today and can't start practicing dark strength until tomorrow. In fact, while Jin Ming's kung fu is getting bigger and bigger, his body instinctively needs to keep balance, otherwise he will lose weight. The more complete, smooth and crisp you open outward, the deeper and thicker the foundation you lay for dark energy. This is the truth of Taiji "cathode is positive, anode is negative". However, this does not mean that as long as you practice bright energy, you can naturally have dark energy, but only have a certain foundation, or "access card." If you practice bright energy, you will be qualified to practice dark energy, but you should practice dark energy bit by bit.

When you practice in the dark stage, you can stretch your shelf and live for a round. The transition is naturally uninterrupted, popular and continuous; You fight with people, and they don't know me. I know people by myself, and I can turn around and open and close freely. -stretch out your hand, up and down, left and right, front and back, all parties are complete and flawless. Take the "squeezing" in Dressing for the Lazy as an example. When the forehand is extended, there is both upward and downward thrust and forward and backward force, both the force of opening the shoulder outward and the force of wrapping the elbow inward, not counting the cooperation between the back hand and the whole body. In this way, the enemy can easily find a flaw. At this time, it can be said that it has reached the point of "neutralization". The so-called neutralization is not a natural balance.

The third step is to open and close together and practice strength. What is "transformation"? Mao Zedong once described it in one sentence: It is completely impossible. One integrated mass, just like nature itself. Open is closed, closed is opened, mountain or mountain, water or water, mountain or water, water or mountain, the meaning of appearance has faded. In the words of Buddhists, it is "emptiness is color, color is emptiness, emptiness is color, color is color, emptiness is color", and in the words of boxing classics, it is "no boxing without intention, no intention is true" and "the three sections of boxing are invisible, so you can't do it when you see it." The author is still groping and honing the experience of this layer, so he dare not make more rumors, lest the fallacy spread and make people laugh. Laozi thinks that "nature" is even higher than the highest realm of "Tao", and Tai Ji Chuan goes with the flow, returns to nature, and finally achieves harmony and unity with nature. The highest state of "transformation" may be nature, which completely fades away the acquired turbidity and clumsy power, returns to simplicity and reaches nature. Boxing practice to this point, whether it is open or closed, has completely become a human instinct. It's a rule to open when it's time to open and close when it's time to close. All for the truth. Opening and closing, purely natural, completely independent of the control of the brain, is an instinctive reaction. At this point, regardless of birth and death, martial arts level, all have their own desires, unfavorable.

The above three levels of kung fu and three realms need to be practiced step by step, not in a hurry, but in search of resistance to realize the true meaning of opening and closing; Nor can we rest on our laurels and ignore the perfection and guidance of the theory. The eagle sometimes flies lower than the chicken, but the chicken can never fly as high as the eagle. An understanding of boxing theory helps Gao Fei to put his wings on. In particular, Tai Ji Chuan, an absolutely concept-oriented fist, should pay more attention to theoretical cultivation. We may not be able to do what we think, and we certainly can't do what we don't think. If our ideas can't be achieved, our boxing can't be achieved. According to the master cloud, a trip to Sun-style Tai Ji Chuan, practice the opening and closing movements; Boxing is half done. When opening and closing, it means "crossing", "stepping", "squeezing", "pressing", "picking", "elbow" and "leaning". The author learned from the teacher's guidance, pondered carefully, and suddenly realized that there is such a big world in the opening and closing, and the ancestors designed it in boxing, which is unique and really the finishing touch.