The Role of National Traditional Sports on Fitness

Taijiquan originated in China, and its movements of rigid and flexible, can not only be used for self-defense, but also to enhance physical fitness, prevention and treatment of diseases of traditional boxing. Taijiquan has a long history, many schools, widely spread, and is loved by people.

Although Taijiquan is different from other schools in terms of routines, push hands, pneumatic power, etc., it has the efficacy of dredging meridians and activating collaterals, harmonizing qi and blood, nourishing internal organs and strengthening muscles and bones. Taijiquan, as one of the boxing arts, was called "long fist", "Mianquan", "thirteen potential", "soft hand". ". In the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty (1736-1795 A.D.), Wang Zongyue, a martial artist from Shanxi Province, wrote "Theory of Taijiquan", which determined the name of Taijiquan. The word "taiji" originates from "Zhouyi-Syllable Rhetoric", which contains the meaning of the highest, the most extreme, the absolute, and the only one.

Between heaven and earth, above the world, all things and chances are changing all the time. Trees, flowers and plants, mountains and buildings, seemingly static, all gradually aging. As the saying goes, only "change" is constant. Taijiquan is to put all kinds of changes in the fist exercise out. Static and static opening and closing, rigid and flexible, fast and slow, up and down, left and right, smooth and reverse winding, hidden and hidden, virtual and real, continuous, a family of the body, a movement without immobility, apparent when the momentum is abundant, hidden when the smoke dissipates, with the intention to bring force, to the point of melting in the whole body to achieve the strength to break the intention to continue, and then gently start, wielded at will. A thought, a thought, a move, at will, are in self-control, in order to achieve the effect of health, self-defense, this is Taijiquan.