What are the characteristics of various Tai Ji Chuan in China?

Yang style: stretching is positive, soft and rigid; Round and full, calm and powerful.

Chen style: tortuous, loose and elastic; Fast and slow, storage and development change mutually.

Wu style: light, quiet, soft, compact and comfortable; Chuanzi step, oblique to the right.

Military style: compact, moderate and comfortable; Open and close freely, advance and retreat freely.

Sun style: open and close freely, flexible conversion; There is a degree of advance and retreat, and harmony is different.

Harmonious type: combination of rigidity and softness, impartiality, no greed and no debt, smooth and natural.

Chen Tai Ji Chuan's exercise principles and training methods also require the close coordination of heart, qi and body, qi exercises at will, the waist moves from the source, and the waist turns to the spine throughout. In the process of pushing hands, the principle of "winding adhesion" is mainly used, and "winding adhesion depends on me". In the process of sticking, the rules of "giving up, rowing, squeezing and pressing" are used to help brake, give up who I am, listen to the strength and make efforts to defeat the enemy.

Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan boxing frame is simple in stretching, rigorous in structure, tall and straight in posture, smooth in movement, flexible in content, relaxed and natural, and clear in weight. Posture development, fairness and simplicity, simple training methods, from loose to soft, from soft to hard, both rigid and flexible. As Yang Chengfu said, "Tai Ji Chuan is the art of combining rigidity with softness, hiding needles in cotton". There are three postures: high, medium and low.

Wu-style Tai Ji Chuan Wu-style Tai Ji Chuan is famous for its softness. Its movements are relaxed and natural, continuous, regular, relaxed and natural, and unique and static. Although the boxing frame is small, it has the foundation of a big frame and is developed and compact. It stretches itself in compactness and is unconstrained. Push the hand correctly and strictly, be delicate with iron bars, be quiet and not act rashly, and be good at being kind.

Tai Ji Chuan is a form of martial arts, which is different from Chen's old and new frames, and also different from Yang's big and small frames. This is an independent school. Its movements are simple and compact, its posture is small but not cramped, its movements are slow and steady, its hands don't exceed its toes, it doesn't cling to its body when it is closed, and its left and right hands each hold half of its body and don't cross each other. The forward and backward rotation of the chest and abdomen is always positive. Rigorous footwork, distinguishing between reality and reality, small and flexible. When stepping, the toes land first, then the feet follow the ground, and the whole feet are slowly lowered and leveled. When lunging, the knees of the front legs should not exceed the toes, and the rear legs should not be straight and high. Boxing pays attention to starting, bearing, opening and closing, and its movements are coherent and smooth. It dominates the body with the transformation of internal strength from virtual to real and the potential of internal qi, with the following principles: "God should be restrained", "Mind should be restrained before the body", "God should carry it with his heart, body should carry it with God, meaning should follow, meaning should reach the spirit, meaning should resist force, and meaning should not be divided".

The characteristics of Sun-style Tai Ji Chuan are: advance and retreat, step by step, and retreat. The movements are flexible, agile and natural, the footwork is clear when practicing, and the whole practice is like flowing water. Every turn is connected by "opening" and "closing", so it is also called "opening and closing Tai Chi Chuan".