Sun Taijiquan Basic Characteristics and Sources

Basic Characteristics and Sources of Sun-Style Taijiquan

Sun-Style Taijiquan is a traditional Han Chinese boxing art. Although Taijiquan is called boxing, in reality, especially in recent decades. It has been transforming into gong. Here is my sharing of the basic characteristics and sources of Sun Taijiquan, welcome to read and browse.

Introduction

Sun style Taijiquan was created by Mr. Sun Lutang, is the most recent Han Chinese boxing in the modern popular discretionary Chen Yang Wu Wu Sun five schools of Taijiquan. It should be said that Mr. Sun Lutang from the level of cultural construction of his learning of Xingyi, Bagua, Taijiquan and other boxing for the reconstruction of ingenuity, the pursuit of the form of the movement and a high degree of unity of the connotation of the movement, not to the level of action "difficult to be able to" for the valuable. In my preface to Mr. Tong Xudong's (Research Notes on Sun Style Wushu), I summarized the historical and academic characteristics of Sun Style Wushu as follows: "Sun's Wushu is a comprehensive school of martial arts, a contemplative and refined brew. Participate in the Wudang, visit Shaolin; pick the form of Yi, and Bagua, proof of Taiji. According to the Yi Pin Dao, push the new, independent, self-contained; just like a Kunlun martial arts." The main idea of this passage is to say, around 1918, Mr. Sun Lutang combined his life's efforts to make the "Taijiquan" and other five martial arts works, in fact, the results of the various schools of Chinese martial arts at the time of the results of the crystallization of the results of the synthesis and generalization of the Chinese martial arts is a milestone in the history of the development of milestones.

Origin and Inheritance

Sun's Taijiquan is a beautiful flower in the garden of Han Chinese martial arts. Sun's Taijiquan is a famous modern Chinese martial artist, a generation of masters, Mr. Sun Lutang set the form of Yi, Bagua, Taiji of the great, smelting the three in a furnace, the creation of one of the Han's outstanding boxing.

Sun's Taijiquan founder Sun Lutang. Sun Lutang name Fuquan, the word Lutang, was born in 1860 on November 15th. In his early years, he studied Xingyiquan with Guo Yunshen, a master of Xingyiquan, and Baguazhang from Cheng Tinghua, a disciple of Dong Haichuan, a master of Baguazhang. Later, he was taught Taijiquan by Hao Weizhen, a disciple of Wu Yuxiang, who was ill. Sun Lutang combined all three styles into one and formed his own style, known as Sun's Taijiquan. It is also known as "Bagua Taijiquan" because it contains the characteristics of Bagua Palm.

Mr. Sun Lutang, a famous martial artist and a generation of masters in modern times, preferred martial arts since childhood, once worshiped under Li Kuiguan, but with his master - Guo Yunshen, the originator of Xingyi Quan in Hebei Province, learned boxing for more than seven years, and then worshiped Mr. Cheng Tinghua, Mr. Hao Weizhen to learn Baguazhang and Taijiquan, and got its true essence to create a family of its own. During the period of the Republic of China, in order to revitalize the Chinese Wushu, Patriarch Sun Lutang set up teaching in the north and south of the Yangtze River. He was the head of Wudang of the Central National Art Museum and the deputy director and provost of the National Art Museum of Jiangsu Province. Sun Lutang master of the martial arts predecessors of boxing routines and boxing ideas and the true essence of their own martial arts experience into a book, published "Xingyi boxing," "Bagua boxing," "Bagua Sword", "Taijiquan Studies" and "Fist Intentions Statement of the True" and other five classic works of martial arts, so that the traditional martial arts from changing the original appearance of the true intention of the fist does not go astray. Since its inception, Sun's Taijiquan has been loved by domestic and foreign martial arts enthusiasts, and has now been included in the excellent traditional martial arts boxing and routines, and the newly compiled Sun's Taijiquan competition routines, to domestic and foreign promotion.

Mr. Sun Jianyun, the second-generation master of Sun's Taijiquan, has fully inherited and carried forward the Sun's Taijiquan founded by his father, the famous martial arts master Sun Lutang. For more than seventy years, Mr. Sun has been abiding by martial virtues, keeping away from fame and fortune, emphasizing cleanliness and self-improvement, and at the age of nearly ninety years, he has been running around inside and outside the Great Wall, in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and has been enthusiastically promoting the Chinese martial arts and taijiquan. Mr. Sun's noble martial arts virtues, superb martial arts skills and healthy body were elected as one of China's top ten contemporary martial arts masters and healthy old people, and he was awarded the Chinese Wushu High Ranking and Eighth Ranking Wushu Master by the National Sports Commission. A few years ago, Mr. Sun Jianyun visited Hong Kong with President Wu Bin of Beijing Wushu Academy. When Mr. Sun Jianyun performed Sun's Taijiquan in the gymnasium, the audience from all walks of life in Hong Kong applauded warmly for the 80-year-old woman, marveling that she was not only healthy, but also performed Sun's Taijiquan with great vigor and ease, which was really a "star of martial arts". Many viewers said: often practicing Sun's taijiquan, can indeed strengthen the body, life extension.

In order to inherit, carry forward and promote Sun's Taijiquan, Mr. Sun Jianyun abandoned the constraints of family tradition and selected Mr. Sun Yongtian, who is of high moral character, excellent skills, capable of doing things and uniting people, as the third generation master of Sun's Taijiquan, and held a grand ceremony at the Medea Hotel in Beijing. Mr. Sun Jianyun's noble style and Mr. Sun Yongtian's youthfulness were well received by the participating leaders, old martial artists and the press.

Mr. Sun Yongtian, the third generation master of Sun Taijiquan, respects Mr. Sun Jianyun very much and treats him as a parent and cares about him a lot. In recent years, Mr. Sun Yongtian and fellow researchers assisted Mr. Sun Jianyun to reorganize and publish "Xingyi Boxing", "Bagua Boxing", "Bagua Sword", "Taiji Boxing", "Taijiquan", "Taijiquan", "Taijiquan", "Taijiquan", "Taijiquan", and "Taijiquan". He has rearranged and published five classic books of martial arts, including "Formal Idea Boxing", "Bagua Boxing", "Bagua Sword", "Taijiquan" and "Boxing Idea Description of Truth", etc. He has also performed and promoted Sun's Taijiquan on behalf of Sun's Taijiquan Research Association in many large-scale martial arts performances organized by the China Wushu Association and the Beijing Wushu Association. He also selects young people with good basic skills and good morals to actively promote Sun's Taijiquan in his company, China Aerospace Shenlong Automobile Sales & Service Co., Ltd. and won the special prize at the first international Taijiquan exchange conference held in Sanya this year. Mr. Sun Yongtian is assisting Mr. Sun Jianyun to create a new situation of inheritance, research, promotion and development of Sun's Taijiquan in the new century!

Style Characteristics

The style characteristics of Sun's Taijiquan are mainly: progress must follow, retreat must follow, agile movements, round and compact, like running water, continuous, every left and right turn to open and close each other.

The most essential feature of Sun's Taijiquan is that the internal and external unity of Xingyiquan and the dynamic and static unity of Baguazhang are stored in the neutral state of Taijiquan. The center of gravity does not fluctuate up and down, or sway from side to side when walking, and the center of gravity is constantly in transition through the living steps.

Sun's Taijiquan, from the beginning to the end, all kinds of movements are required to be neutral and smooth, stretching and rounded, compact and coherent, all in one go. So that the whole body inside and outside the average development, a movement without motion, a static without static. Just because the center that is not forward and backward, and not left and right, making the body hands and feet up and down echo, inside and outside of one. Therefore, the line fist plate frame to abide by the rules.

In the practice of boxing can not go beyond a "in" word. If the practitioner can understand this "in" word, will be able to grasp their own center of gravity, the center of gravity is not lost, breathing can remain normal, breathing normal, in order to hundred veins smooth.

Progress must be followed, retreat must be withdrawn, is the second characteristic of Sun's Taijiquan. Progress must be followed, retreat must be withdrawn, this way of moving, is conducive to cultivate the ability of the practitioner to shift the center of gravity and static and static, but also conducive to the upper and lower follow each other, hands and feet, so that the practitioner in the move, do not lose the importance of the six harmonies.

The third characteristic of Sun's Taijiquan is: every time you turn around, more open and close the hand to meet. Sun's Taijiquan has twelve opening and closing hands, which divide the routine into thirteen sections. Whenever one turns around, the open and close hands are connected, which can guide the practitioner's body with the transformation of the center of gravity and the self-running of the internal qi (known as round research). The opening and closing of the hands facilitates the practitioner to experience the operation of the breath in the body in harmony with the shift of the center of gravity. Open and close hand arrangement, in the practice of boxing, but also conducive to the practitioner of meridian dredging and blood circulation.

The fourth characteristic of Sun's taijiquan is: store up God and wait for the opportunity, God does not open up, the reality is clear, and always do not lose the key points of the six harmonies. When practicing Sun's Taijiquan, it is necessary to take advantage of the situation everywhere, all kinds of strength with the center of gravity changes and conversion, such as clouds and water, continuous, slow and even spirit of random waiting for the momentum of the law.

Sun-style Taijiquan "to avoid three harms to keep nine to", to avoid three harms is the requirement to practice boxing, avoid nu gas, clumsy force and shy chest and abdomen; keep nine if you want to require the practice of boxing must be "a collapsed, two buckle, three to mention the four tops, five wrapped, six loose, seven drooped, eight shrinking, nine drill down to turn to be clear! "

In short, Sun's taijiquan is a soft, slow, light senior boxing of the Han Chinese martial arts, with self-defense, fitness, health, and cultivation of the role of the body. Sun's Taijiquan combines physical movement with ideological activity, guides physical movement with ideology, and guides the movement of qi and blood, so as to achieve the dual cultivation of form and spirit, spirit and body, which enables practitioners to get rid of illnesses and prolong health and longevity.

Characteristics of Pushing Hands

The characteristics of Sun Style Taijiquan Pushing Hands are:

First, "in". This "in" has three meanings: one is to keep in, that is, no matter how they move changes, the center of gravity to be impartial, virtual and real conversion in their own stable range, not lost in the middle. The second is to take the center, that is, the two sides of a hand, we must instantly grasp the other side of the center of gravity, in the not-so-separate to follow the evolution with the progress, into what? Sticking to the center of gravity of the other also. The third is moderate, that is, whether it is into the retreat is a hair, are to be appropriate, the grasp of the machine, the size of the amount, everywhere and his agreement. Therefore, the foot and hip flexible.

The second is that the dressing. Shiki also has three meanings: one is to focus on his center of gravity, so that I can always grasp his center of gravity changes. Secondly, the spirit of his mind, even if his center of gravity has not moved, but as long as his mind is moving, I can also be aware of. Thirdly, I can apply my spirit to his body, so that he feels stagnant and ineffective. However, these uses do not require the unity of my spirit and energy, or the purity of my internal energy.

Third, the whole. The whole has two meanings: one is to harmonize the body, mixing and integrating one. Push the hands to move without moving, a static without static, the momentum of the drum. The second is that the body is always not away from the six. Although it is a softening, the body inside and outside should not lose the importance of the six harmonies, but should be straight in the curve. Therefore, Sun's Taijiquan in the push hands is through the loose shoulders, loose hips to dominate their own changes in reality and yin and yang.

Fourth, live. Sun's Taijiquan push hands to the advanced stage of the big pout a method. This big stroke is different from the combination of the four corners of the practice by the example of the elbow leaning. This is two people practicing, hand that ring that go, two people can also be interchanged in the go. This need to have a very good gossip boxing walking circle foundation. Need to walk two hips relaxed, center of gravity up and down without ups and downs. Walking time to seek quiet in motion, although moving, two feet and two crotch changes in the virtual reality to be natural, the hand should not be away from that is not lost not the top, inside and outside the body of the six is not dispersed. Flexible and changeable method.

Fifth, empty. Taijiquan is characterized by "air", the so-called introduction of falling air. If you want to introduce the empty, you need to make them feel that they can take me in, but once they stick to the body and send out the energy, they will realize that they are empty. Therefore, the changes of Taijiquan need to be hidden, so that one can go in a dark circle to change the reality and not see its shape. At the beginning of practice, practice from the root joints, and the conversion of reality and emptiness of the whole body starts from the root joints. What is the root section? The root of the two hips and the root of the tailbone constitute the root section of a body, and the loose turn of a body will be sent out from it. This "air" of the first layer of meaning. To if the practitioner can practice to the spirit of unity, internal strength pure, the body is not moving and the center of gravity has been moving, the so-called center of gravity is not everywhere around the body. This can be called the "air" of the essence of the meaning.