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I want to practice Tai Ji Chuan. I don't know which is better.

It is better for beginners in Tai Ji Chuan to start practicing from the 24th style.

Twenty-four-style Tai Ji Chuan, also known as simplified Tai Ji Chuan, belongs to the simplified Tai Ji Chuan routine implemented after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In order to facilitate the popularization of Tai Ji Chuan among the masses, 1956 edited Simplified Tai Ji Chuan by deleting complicated and repetitive movements and selecting 24 styles on the basis of Tai Ji Chuan in Yang Tai. The full set of twenty-four movements is simple and easy to use. You can learn Taiji Chuan from other sects when you are familiar with it.

The characteristics of various Tai Ji Chuan are as follows:

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.