What's the difference between simplified Tai Ji Chuan and traditional Tai Ji Chuan?

The characteristics of simplified Tai Ji Chuan are as follows:

(1) retains the traditional style of Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan, with broad body, moderate comfort, relaxed and soft, mellow and steady, and combining rigidity with softness.

(2) Keep the basic techniques of Yang Tai and Tai Ji Chuan, but delete the repetitive actions in the original traditional routines. The arrangement of moves in the routine is from simple to complex, step by step, easy first and then difficult, which is conducive to learning. As long as it is practiced for a long time, its exercise effect is the same as the original traditional Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan.

(3) easy to learn, remember and popularize.

(4) Practicing once is time-saving, only 5-6 minutes, and only 7-8 minutes when it is extremely slow, which can be used for performances.

(5) The simplified Tai Ji Chuan routine consists of 24 movements, which are divided into 8 groups, and each group has its outstanding exercise purpose. Eight groups of movements are eight units, which is beneficial to teaching. In the process of routine exercise, the orientation transformation is very simple and easy to remember. It only goes back and forth twice from left to right, and the starting position is the same as the closing position, both on the right side of the horizontal axis of these two strokes.

The 24 movements of this routine also include Tai Ji Chuan's main steps, footwork, hand shape and technique, as well as basic techniques such as advancing, retreating and turning, which is the basic routine for learning from Tai Ji Chuan.

Among the eight groups of movements, the key movements of 1 group are two basic steps: lunge and virtual step, as well as two techniques of holding (ball) and separating (leaning). The second group mainly studies the advance and retreat of footwork and the hug, push, pick and hug of technology. The third group is more focused, practicing one of Tai Ji Chuan's main stunts-"pulling the sparrow's tail" style, such as "stretching, stroking, squeezing, pressing and forehand", and practicing both left and right styles. The fourth group mainly practices the cross-stepping method and the cloud-turning technique, which is a group of highly coordinated movements that must be paid attention to inside and outside. This group of movements can especially embody the characteristics of Tai Ji Chuan's "waist first", "waist like an axle" and the combination of up and down, inside and outside. The fifth group focuses on the basic leg method of kicking, and practices a boxing method of punching with both arms in circles. It is a little more difficult for six groups to practice footwork and independent step, as well as another supporting technique. The fifth and sixth groups require a high degree of balance. The seventh group mainly focuses on lunge and push, while practicing the so-called four-corner pick and eight-palm technique, which embodies the offensive and defensive characteristics of Tai Ji Chuan. The eighth group focuses on a series of actions from defense to attack, which is a unified and coordinated posture, technique, footwork and eye method.

So simplifying Tai Ji Chuan is actually a set of basic routines for training eight lessons and five steps.

At the same time, simplifying Tai Ji Chuan has exercise value for nervous system, cardiovascular system, motor organs and balance ability.

The value of simplifying Tai Ji Chuan's mental exercise system lies in simplifying Tai Ji Chuan's requirement of "relaxing the mind", which is a kind of spiritual repair and compensation for practitioners. During the exercise, the nerve center area outside the exercise is in a state of protective inhibition, and the consumption caused by tension at ordinary times is "compensated" and mental fatigue is repaired.

Research shows that long-term practice of Tai Ji Chuan can really relieve tension, provide rest and recuperation for brain nerves, and has obvious curative effect on unhealthy emotions such as depression and anxiety. Most of the movements in the simplified Tai Ji Chuan routine are symmetrical. The symmetrical footwork practice of "distinguishing the deficiency from the excess" can activate and balance the functions of the left and right hemispheres of the brain, and improve and delay the aging phenomenon.

Simplified Tai Ji Chuan has exercise value for cardiovascular system. "Deficiency in the upper part and excess in the lower part" and "moving at will" are the basic mechanisms to simplify Tai Ji Chuan and help treat hypertension, which will help practitioners to distract their attention and lower limb blood, and relieve the blood flow pressure in the brain.

The data of comparative study shows that persisting in practicing simplified Tai Ji Chuan can reduce diastolic blood pressure and systolic blood pressure, and the effect of drug therapy is better than that of drug therapy alone.

The exercise of controlling balance and stability is an important part of simplifying Tai Ji Chuan. Simplifying Tai Ji Chuan's "Walking with Legs" can enhance the leg strength of exercisers, and the flexibility of muscle ligaments is just like that of children, which will benefit them for life.

Simplifying Tai Ji Chuan is an action of "seeking quietness in motion", which has the functions of seeking quietness in noise and seclusion in foot. It is the essence of fitness and health preservation, and it is a challenge to the static health preservation that has paid attention to "quietness" for thousands of years.