Tai Ji Chuan's Three Hand Types

Tai Ji Chuan's three hand types; Fists, palms, hooks.

1, boxing; The four fingers bend naturally, and the thumb is buckled on the knuckles of the index finger. The fist face is flushed and not stiff.

Yang style; Put your fingers together and press your thumb on the phalanx of your index finger and middle finger. You can hold your index finger in your fist.

Chen style; The fingers are bent together, the fingertips are attached to the palm of your hand, and then the thumb is bent and attached to the phalanges in the middle of the index finger and middle finger to form a fist shape. The cloth is too tight.

Wu style; Naturally, the thumb is buckled on the second knuckle of the index finger, so you can't hold it too tightly. There should be changes in reality, which is basically the same as Yang's.

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Military style; One is that the four fingers bend naturally, and the thumb is buckled on the second knuckle of the index finger, which is the same as Yang's style. Another traditional practice is that the first knuckle of the thumb is buckled on the first knuckle of the index finger on the basis of the former, and the fingertips of the four fingers do not touch the palm, and the palm is completely empty, which is called semi-clenched fist.

Sun style; The four fingers bend naturally, and the thumb is buckled on the second knuckle of the index finger, and the thumb is enough to reach the second knuckle of the middle finger, so that the fist surface is slightly helicoid, and the fist is slightly clenched, but it is not stiff, and the middle finger points to the palm.

2. Palm; The five fingers are naturally straight and separated, the palms are empty, and the mandible is round.

Yang style; The five fingers naturally straighten and differentiate, but the fingers bend slightly to the palm, the fingertips extend slightly to the back of the hand, the jaws of the tiger are round, the palm is sunken, and it looks like a lotus leaf.

Chen style; The root of the thumb is connected with the root of the little finger, the fingertip of the thumb leans backward and is separated from the index finger, the other four fingers are slightly separated and naturally straightened, the fingertip is bent backward, and the five fingers are staggered into a spiral shape.

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Wu style; The thumb and forefinger are separated, the other four fingers are slightly separated, the fingertips are forward, the thumb and forefinger are separated and circular, the spacing between the other four fingers is smaller than that of Yang, the fingertips are forward, and the four fingers are like the thumb.

Military style; The five fingers are naturally evenly separated, and the fingers are slightly bent towards the palm, not completely straight. The thumb and little finger are relatively aligned, and the palm is sunken. Some exercises require the thumb to be buckled up, which is more stretched than Yang's, and usually require the fingertips to face up.

Sun style; The five fingers are naturally separated, and the degree of palm depression is competitive.

Hook; Wrist flexion, natural adduction of five fingers, pinching of fingertips.

Hook is also called claw, hook, structure and hanging hand. Wu's hook is a part of boxing. He thinks that hook is a kind of boxing that hits people with the back of the hand close to the wrist after the palm falls, and it should be included in boxing. Some people think that the hook shape of Wu style and Chen style is the same. First, the little finger, then the ring finger, middle finger and forefinger are curled in turn. The little finger tip is close to the palm root, and the thumb is attached to the slightly knuckled index finger.

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Yang hook pinches with five fingers. There are also people with unyielding wrists in Chen Tai Ji Chuan. Sun style and Wu style have no hook type. Yang style; The first knuckle of the five fingers is naturally pinched, and the wrist is empty. The five fingers can't exert force, the palm can hold a small ball, and there is no tension between the hook top and wrist joint.

Chen style; The fingertips of the five fingers naturally pinch the wrist slightly, and the palm is round. The space in the palm is larger than that of Yang, and the five fingers can't understand it. You can hold a small ball in your palm, and there is no tension between the hook top and wrist joint.

Wu style; Fingertips of thumb, index finger and middle finger are naturally pinched together. The palm of ring finger and little finger is bent, and the wrist is bent. The palm is empty but there is a middle space.