Traditional Sports Programs of World Class Intangible Cultural Heritage

The traditional sports program of world-class intangible cultural heritage is Taijiquan.

Taijiquan is a kind of traditional Chinese boxing which is gentle, slow, light, strong and flexible, formed by combining the changes of yin and yang and the five elements of Yijing, the meridian science of Chinese medicine, the ancient guiding art and the art of vomiting, and the traditional Chinese boxing of internal and external cultivation with the concepts of taiji and yin and yang dialectics in the philosophy of Confucianism and Taoism in the traditional Chinese philosophy as the core idea, and combining various functions into a whole. "Taijiquan was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Because taijiquan is a modern style of boxing, with many schools and a broad mass base, it is one of the most vital of the Chinese martial arts styles. As a traditional sport of world-class intangible cultural heritage, Taijiquan has become a symbolic symbol of oriental culture and an important bridge and link to promote the exchange between oriental and western cultures. The creation of taijiquan is another demonstration of the great creativity of the Chinese nation after the "Four Great Inventions".

Taijiquan is categorized as follows:

1, Yang's Taijiquan

Yang Luchan, one of the famous disciples of Chen Changxing, a famous Chen Jiagou Taijiquan master, and a seventh-generation master of Taijiquan. When Yang Luchan was teaching in Beijing, as most of his disciples were princes and nobles, they lived extravagantly and were weak and sickly. Considering the physical fitness of these people, Yang Lu Chan changed some difficult movements in the old frame of Taijiquan, such as jumping, stumbling fork, and shocking foot, etc., to not jumping, not stumbling, not speeding up, not shocking, or narrowing down the movements, so as to make the postures simpler and the movements softer and easier to practise, which was later promoted as "Yang's Taijiquan".

2. Wu's Taijiquan

Wu Jianquan taught Taijiquan in Beijing Sports Research Institute. He enriched and modified the Taijiquan handed down to him by his family by removing repetitive and jumping movements, modifying and stereotyping the style, and formed a new type of boxing which was loose, quiet and natural, with a compact frame, slow and continuous, no vertical and no jumping movements, and was long in softness, and had its own unique style, which was called "Wu's Taijiquan". Wu's Taijiquan".

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Taijiquan