What are the "eight methods" of Changquan?

Changquan has eight technical requirements:

1 posture. Head straight, neck straight, shoulders heavy, chest straight, waist straight, hips close together, upper limbs straight, lower limbs stable and symmetrical.

2 action. When doing martial arts actions such as kicking, hitting, throwing and taking, it is necessary to make clear the starting and ending points, routes and power points.

3 posture. It is necessary to closely combine trunk activities with offensive and defensive changes such as swallowing, spitting, flashing, spreading, rushing, bumping, squeezing and leaning.

4 eyes method. Hand-to-hand, hand-to-eye, through the eyes to fully express the inner consciousness of a stroke.

⑤ Spirit. Concentrate and show courage, vigilance and fearlessness.

6 strength. Combination of rigidity and softness, rigidity without rigidity, softness without looseness, rigidity with softness, vitality with explosiveness; It is necessary to lead the action with consciousness and cooperate with the breath to achieve the unity of inside and outside.

All landowners breathe. Pay attention to the four methods of lifting, supporting, gathering and sinking. Use formulation when jumping, support method for static action, aggregation method for rigid action and sinking method for high-to-low action.

8 rhythm. In the drill, the more striking the contrast between fast and slow, dynamic and static, rigid and soft, and ascending and descending, the stronger the sense of rhythm.

Extended data:

The characteristic of Changquan is that when shooting or kicking, it is mainly to release long shots, play long distances, move long and stretch, and keep the muscles straight. Sometimes when punching, the hitting point is lengthened by twisting the waist and shoulders to give play to the advantage of "one inch longer and one inch stronger". Routine movements and passing times are generally more, and short punches are sometimes used in long punches, but the whole set of movements is mainly long strokes.

The word "Changquan" was first recorded in Ji Xiaoshu's Summary of Boxing Classics by Qi Jiguang in the Ming Dynasty: "In the Boxer Rebellion in ancient and modern times, Song Taizu had 32 potential Changquan." In the middle of Qing Dynasty, Taiji Changquan spread again. Wang Zongyue's Thirteen Poems said: "Those who have been boxing for a long time are like the Yangtze River and the sea." The "Changquan" mentioned here is actually Tai Ji Chuan, which is far from today's Changquan, and it is two kinds of boxing with completely different contents and characteristics.

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