The Relationship between Tai Ji Chuan and China Traditional Culture

Tai Ji Chuan is a part of China's traditional culture.

Tai Ji Chuan is the embodiment of China people's attitude and cultural connotation towards Wushu.

Tai Chi originated from Yi. As the head of the Six Classics and the source of Tao, Tao is the beginning and source of all things. Everything is produced by Tao, "Tao gives birth to one, life gives birth to two, and life gives birth to three". The more the evolution, development and changes of all things in the world stretch, the farther away from the Tao, and finally return to the Tao. From the perspective of "Tao", "big", "death", "far" and "return", Tao seems to explain that the world is a gradual evolution process. This process shows that everything in the world is born of Tao, but it still needs to return to its starting point-Tao. In other words, the running law of Tao is a circle.

With or without, the trajectory formed by the transformation process of Yin and Yang is also a circle. Laozi said: "Everything in the world is born, and everything is born without it." Moreover, "the loss of heaven cannot be compensated" (Chapter 70 of the Tao Te Ching). Therefore, a circle with or without virtual surplus transformation has been formed. Taiji diagram is also a circle from yin to yang. Since the relationship between everything in heaven and earth and Tao is a circle that transforms each other, then "endless life, never being poor" is the best schema of everything.

In the upload of the Book of Changes, it is said that "it is very easy to have, that is, two instrument students, two instrument students, four elephants students, four elephants students gossip, good or bad luck, and good or bad luck leads to great cause", and it is pointed out that "it is easy to live." That is to say, Yi is a derivative change from small to large, from simple to complex, and from low to high, so a birth and evolution process is obtained: from low-level embryos to Pisces-shaped new life, from yin-yang symmetry to eight diagrams, which is essentially a cosmic occurrence diagram-Taiji diagram.

Tai Ji Chuan's acupuncture kungfu style should be a circular movement, which is the requirement and running track of Wushu. This is the expansion and extension of the philosophical thought of the operating law of Tao. Tai Chi was applied to boxing, and the Tai Chi map became the emblem of Tai Ji Chuan. Under the guidance of this emblem model, Tai Ji Chuan's movement mode and route have also become curves, arcs and arcs. It can be said that the wheel movement with the waist as the axis runs through the movement of circle and arc. With the change of action, various arc movements such as "big arc with small arc", "big circle with small circle", or flat circle, vertical circle and figure-eight circle are formed. Some people say that Xingyiquan, Taiji and Feng Ba's posture are all "round", which makes sense.

Tai Chi is a spiral strength, which makes the strength rich and full, and it is a special requirement of combining rigidity with softness.

When attacking from technology, the strength is more stable and it is not easy to be caught by the opponent. In defense, contact release, arc (or ring, circle) force transformation, unloading and traction are all carried out in the form of circle and arc, which can increase the stress area and prolong the action time of force, which is just sublimated to the realm of "four or two".