Which are the four core elements of taijiquan routine rehearsal?

What are the four core elements of Taijiquan routine rehearsal

Everything in the world has its own law of occurrence, development and destruction. According to the idea of traditional Chinese culture, the change of anything follows the law of yin and yang change, yin pole changes into yang, yang pole changes into yin. Taijiquan is also inseparable from the change of yin and yang, and the law of push hands is to dip and stick and follow, not to lose and not to top, and to give up one's own life, and the taijiquan routine also has its own law. So what are the four core elements of taijiquan routines? The following please follow me to understand it.

First, the waist is the master

The waist is the master refers to the idea of the command of the fist, the waist to move the limbs, in the process of completing the operation of the fist, the waist should play the role of the master. I understand the waist, not only refers to the coccyx on the third section of the life gate point, should also include the thoracic spine (spine, danzhong corresponds to the Shendao point, cervical vertebrae (human corresponding to the Shenfu point). The cervical vertebrae are indispensable to the top of the virtual collar, the thoracic vertebrae are indispensable to the chest and back, and the nerves on the back of the spine directly control the shoulders, elbows, hands, and other upper limbs, the nerves on the lumbar directly control the crotch, knees, ankles, feet, and other lower limbs, so the lumbar as a dominant force is to drive the limbs through the lumbar spine, and the limbs should rotate with the crotch rotation, and the lumbar should be loose and collapsed and should not be rotated. Crotch does not move and waist movement, there are three disadvantages: ① the formation of twisted spine; ② axis is easy to break; ③ feet are not flexible. The waist and hips should have their own division of labor.

The initial stage of learning boxing is to learn the trick, is to use the hands, feet boxing, with the arms, legs, localized stiffness, will not use the waist boxing. Only when the skillful strokes to gradually understand the understanding of the power, this time is not practicing strokes with the intention of force, gradually abandon the clumsy force, began to use the waist and spine boxing, waist and spine to drive the limbs. If the manual waist spine does not move, it is a stiff hand; if the legs move waist and hips do not move, it is a dead step. Upper limbs to experience the feeling of waist belt movement, passive feeling, the feeling of the car, the lower limbs to experience the feeling of the step with the body to change, the intention, gas to change the spirit. In a word, the limbs do not automatically, chaotically, blindly, if the limbs are chaotic, the body will be scattered, the practice of the whole strength, must be dominated by the waist to drive the limbs.

Second, the virtual reality conversion (moving step center of gravity, fixed step center of gravity to move)

Guo Yuntang, Guo Shufen has an article that says: "The center of gravity is fixed when moving step, fixed step center of gravity to move". The center of gravity is fixed when you move, and shifted when you move. I think the meaning of this sentence is that the center of gravity is fixed when you move, do not move, the center of gravity can only move after the fixed step. The specific method of operation is as follows.

(1)? The center of gravity is fixed when you move?

What is the center of gravity? The coccyx is the center of gravity. What is a moving step? When the coccyx sits on the right heel, the right foot is solid, the center of gravity falls on the right foot, the back of the head, the coccyx, the heel of the upper and lower a line, then lift the left foot, move forward in place, the heel of the foot landing on the flat, this process is a moving step. In this process, the center of gravity (coccyx) is always sitting on the right foot can not move, this is called? The center of gravity of the moving step is fixed.

When moving step should pay attention to: ① false foot lift forward, the center of gravity can not move, the coccyx is still sitting on the solid foot. ② false foot lift, the leg should not be automatic, to use the waist to move, not with the pull of the leg to lift the foot, but with the waist on the spine. . strength to lift the foot. This practice not only embodies the principle of the waist leading the limbs, but also embodies the principle of the waist leading the limbs, but also embodies the principle of the waist leading the limbs. The intention of the qi should be exchanged for the spirit? The principle of boxing. ③When lifting the virtual foot, according to Mr. Zhu Datong, the real foot is real again, the real foot is real to the end, and the foot generates rebound strength directly to the spine, and the spine strength is used to lift the virtual foot gently. This is also the cat's footstep of Taijiquan, lifting the foot without stomping and landing without sound, which is also in line with Mr. Ye Damei's proposal of "Whenever you turn, you must sink". Whenever you turn, you must sink. This is also in line with Mr. Ye Dami's practice method of "sinking whenever you turn". The transformation of reality and emptiness should not be used with force, but only with the internal energy generated by the will and qi to transform.

(2)? The center of gravity is shifted after a fixed step.

What is a fixed step? A stance is considered to be fixed when the weak foot is flat on the ground. At this point, the center of gravity is gradually shifted from the solid foot to the weak foot. This movement can only be a gradual change and can not be sudden change, can only be continuous, section through the change, must be light, slow, even, from the virtual foot gradually changed to the real foot.

Some people say, taijiquan is very simple, not just soft, slow, as long as you can walk will play taijiquan. I think practicing taijiquan is not that easy. The regular people move the leg of the step is with the force, automatic, the center of gravity is moving with the step and move; and taiji step is different, it is moving the leg of the step is not with the force, is driven by the waist, the center of gravity can not be moved casually, it can only be fixed after the step to move. This is the difference between the Taiji step and the normal step.

The center of gravity drills into the center of the earth

How does the center of gravity drill into the center of the earth during the operation of the fist? Once the waist and hips are loose and the hips have a sense of expansion, the center of gravity flows like water from the groin, through the ankles to the spring, drilling into the center of the earth. Drilling the center of the earth is a systematic project, not that you want to drill can be drilled, but there are conditions, must be waist, hips, knees, ankles all loose to complete.

Drill the center of the earth in what circumstances? Often in the step with the body when the application. To be more specific, it is when the virtual foot lifted the moment the real foot and then real once, at this time the center of gravity drilling into the center of the earth, at the same time the soles of the feet to produce upward rebound force directly to the back of the spine, will be false foot Xu Xu lifted and sent to the front. This is the running process of the lower limbs of the waist belt. It should be noted that the false foot lift is not a leg pulling force, but the waist spine driven. Waist belt to move the upper limbs relatively easy, waist belt to move the lower limbs is more difficult, without a certain amount of loose sinking work is not done. Waist and hips loose the whole body loose, up and down through; waist tight whole body stiff, blood and qi is not smooth. Mr. Yang Chengfu in the practice of taijiquan ten requirements, there can not be the slightest force to bind our muscles and blood.

Fourth, the section through

The boxing recipe says:? A movement of the body is light and flexible, so it must be penetrating. The lightness of the body is a general requirement of the manual, and to achieve this requirement it is necessary to go through all the sections. Throughout the person, refers to the conversion from the A style to the B style, the transition action must be carried out in accordance with the trend, to be slow, even, stable, not to pause, not to jump, to be orderly through the section, be sure to make all the styles between the as if the rope through the beads to be qualified. In layman's terms, the bone joints from a section of a section through to a section of a section of a section of a section of a section of a section of a section of a section of a section, called a section through. This penetration, is with the change of yin and yang under the feet and section through (or called continuous) to transfer its center of gravity, and the center of gravity of the movement is highlighted in the movement of the coccyx, the coccyx to where the center of gravity to where. Every conversion of reality and emptiness, every movement from the beginning to the end, the first thing that comes to mind is that the bones and joints of the joints run through, and the center of gravity flows and changes like water. If we say ? Looseness and softness? is the soul of Taijiquan, then the joint penetration is the realization of? Looseness and softness? is a concrete measure to realize the "SongSoft". To achieve this step, the prerequisite is that the whole body should be loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose. Only with the loose sinking power, with the draw power, with the section through the power, is considered to have the internal power. We see the snake line, is the best embodiment of continuous, section through.

To be able to run through the section, must be section loose, every movement should be run through the section, vertical through the vertical (refers to the bones of the limbs and spine of the bones), horizontal through the horizontal (refers to the waist and hips of the rotation). To section through the section can not have jumping, must be a section of a section of the movement, this through the strength is loose through, as the boxing scripture said? A move around the body should be light, as if through? With the penetration will have soft power, with soft power will be to high-level soft elastic power development. Boxing recipe: extremely soft, and then can be extremely hard. True taijiquan is to go to the extreme, can be extremely light to be extremely heavy, can be extremely soft to be extremely hard, can be extremely slow to be extremely fast, so can not confuse slack and soft. There is a hierarchy of looseness, the next step of looseness is softness, the next step of softness is softness, the next step of softness is extreme softness, and extreme softness is the highest state of taijiquan.