The development history and evolution of Chen Xiao Tai Ji Chuan.

Chen created five sets of fists, five sets of hammers, thirteen strokes, cannon hammers, as well as guns, knives, swords, sticks, swords, mallets and whips. , especially the double pushers and double stick guns, formed a perfect martial arts genre system. Tai Ji Chuan Chen, with his profound boxing theory, unique boxing style, superb martial arts effect and remarkable fitness function, is unique in China Wulin, and is increasingly recognized and welcomed by people all over the world.

Chen passed the boxing to Chen and Chen Ruxin. Since he created his own boxing, it has been mainly circulated in the Chen family. Before Chen 14th and Chen Youben, the sixth generation of Chen in Tai Ji Chuan, there was only one training method handed down from Tai Ji Chuan, regardless of size. Chen Youben is a key figure who plays an epoch-making role in the differentiation of large and small frames.

According to "Chen Jiaqi", Chen Youben's father, Chen, is "academically pure and knowledgeable" (Chen Jiagou has the legend of Chen Dou's mad cow), and Chen You Ben and his brother Chen Youheng "are embarrassed to learn from Tai Ji Chuan. If you have a skill, your sons and nephews can do everything. Rich and modest, they often fail. At this time, people who are proficient in Tai Ji Chuan are out of the door ... Chen Qingping, You-lun Chen, Chen, Chen Sande, Chen Tingdong, and also teachers. Qingpingpu Zhaobao Town and Zhaoyuan, Zhang Kai and Zhangdingshan. There is a biography of Li Jingyan and Zhang Dahong.

As can be seen from the above records, both Chen and Chen Youben have profound martial arts attainments, and their disciples come forth in large numbers. Chen Youben's art was obviously handed down by his father. Chen Youben had a small shelf before, but there was no so-called "small shelf" at that time, and they had systematically trained according to the type of "small circle" shelf, and finally reached the realm of no circle and no promise. The small frame has the characteristics of combining rigidity with softness, spiral winding and alternating speed. Because of its complete theoretical system and strict and orderly training methods, it is praised as "Kung Fu Frame" and "housekeeping boxing" by Chenjiagou people. Unlike some books, "14 Chen Youben made some changes on the basis of the original routine, and gradually gave up some difficult and vigorous movements, and the posture was as wide as the old one, which was called new (now called small)".

The fifteenth generation of Chen made a living by following his father's darts. Since his father Chen Changxing was guarding darts all the year round, Chen Gengyun asked his uncle Chen Youben for advice. In order to make Chen Gengyun work hard as soon as possible, Chen Youben not only retained the essence of the headgear 13 style, but also highlighted the explosive force. He enlarged the boxing frame, had personal counseling, practiced hard, discussed and studied together, and created a new boxing frame. Chen Gengyun practiced hard for more than a year, and finally formed a big circle of new Tai Ji Chuan. Since then, in order to match the headdress 13 style and the traditional small circle, this style has been passed down in his family to his grandson Chen Fake, who was hired to teach boxing in Beijing on 1928. Therefore, this style was announced to the world. In order to distinguish, the traditional practice of walking in big circles is called "big frame" and "small frame" Chen Kezhong, Chen Kedi, Chen Boxiang, Chen Boxian, Chen Jiao, Chen Liqing, etc.

Chen Taiji's Biography, edited by the 16th Chen, is regarded as a classic in Wulin, and its boxing scores are all "small-frame" boxing scores. "Illustration" comes from the preface: "Fools are afraid that the time series will move and they can't wait, and they are afraid that they will be separated from each other and lose their true story, so they try their best to make a microscopic exposition in their spare time. Looking through the books, there is no shelf of the biography of Chen Taiji. Therefore, the Tai Ji Chuan frame recorded in Chen Shi Tai Ji Chuan's Illustration should be very close to the original appearance of Chen Suo's boxing. In the process of evolution and development for more than 300 years, Tai Ji Chuan has derived Tai Ji Chuan such as Yang, Wu, Wu, Sun and Zhao Bao from Chen Tai Ji Chuan. In Tai Ji Chuan's system, what later generations called Chen Tai Ji Chuan's "small frame" is the most traditional training method and the essence of Tai Ji Chuan's boxing frame.

Chen's big fight in Tai Ji Chuan began to spread abroad because of his descendants' overseas escort or business. In particular, the 17th Chen Fake and 18th Zhao Chen Pi of Chen were formally invited to Beijing and Nanjing to give lectures, which made Chen's Tai Ji Chuan fight widely circulated and well known to the world. However, because the Chen family has long regarded it as a secret "housekeeping boxing" and a treasure, and is unwilling to show it to others, it has always been taught secretly in its own home, "passing it inside without spreading it outside", and the teacher is strict. "The big shelf can't get out of the village, and the small shelf can't get out." Xiao Family Boxing was acquired by their predecessors through hundreds of years' hard work and even life. They have been reluctant to teach it to the outside world and to announce the essence of Tai Ji Chuan to the world, so little is known so far. With the changes of the times, the ideas of the older generation of Chen family have gradually opened up, and today's Chen's "small shelf" descendants have also begun to teach them to the outside world. However, due to the late start, the scope of popularization is still limited. So that most people only know Chen Tai Ji Chuan and even equate Chen Tai Ji Chuan with Chen Daquan, but don't know Chen Xiaoquan.

Nowadays, the descendants of Chen's Tai Ji Chuan Xiao Jia are actively spreading and teaching Chen's Xiao Jia Tai Ji Chuan, so that more martial arts lovers can learn Chen's "housekeeping boxing".