Shaolin Wudang Tai Ji Chuan

The Biography of Chen Tai Ji was founded by Chen in Qing Dynasty (A.D.1644 ~1911). On 1367, Zhu Yuanzhang sent troops to the Northern Expedition, crossed the Yellow River and unified China. In the fifth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1372), Zhu Yuanzhang also ordered the relocation from Hongdong County, Shanxi Province to Huaiqing Prefecture. Among the immigrants, there is a young man named Chen Bu, whose ancestral home is Dongtuhe Village, Zezhou County, Shanxi Province. After years of disasters in his hometown, he fled to Hongdong, was wrapped in the immigration team with his wife and children, and was taken into Huaiqing House. He settled in the northeast of Wenxian County 10 km, and named the village Chenbuzhuang.

Chen Taiji's biography was founded more than 300 years ago, but it was not mentioned in the martial arts masterpiece "Jixiao Shuxin Jing Quan Yao Jie" edited by 156 1 Qi Jiguang, but it recorded Qi Jiguang's 32-potential long fist. It is generally believed that Qi Jiguang's long fist is an important source of Tai Ji Chuan.

Wang Zongyue, another important founder of Taiji Biography, lived in Luoyang and Kaifeng, Henan Province for 56 to 60 years (179 1- 1795). Proficient in boxing, fencing and marksmanship, I have studied for decades and accumulated a lot of experience. The book Taiji Zhuan, On Taiji Zhuan, inherits the essence of Taoist Wushu.

In fact, 300-400 years after the establishment of wu-tang clan (13 14) was the period of the revival of the Han regime and the great development of Wushu. The Ming Dynasty paid as much attention to Taoism as the early Han Dynasty. With the development of Taoism, Wushu has changed from simple martial arts and military skills to China Wushu.

Wu Tangmen has his own Tai Ji Chuan. Although there are many differences between Tai Ji Chuan's posture routines and Chen Tai Ji Chuan's, Tai Ji Chuan's Yin-Yang and Five Elements are unique features of Wudang Taoist Kung Fu, which is richer than Tai Ji Chuan's according to Taoist principles. In fact, no matter who was the founder, Tai Ji Chuan inherited the tradition of Wudang Taoist Wushu.

It can be seen that the development of Tai Ji Chuan may draw lessons from Qi Jiguang Changquan and other practical boxing systems with the characteristics of combining rigidity with flexibility. However, the internal strength and theory obviously come from Taoist martial arts, and during the Qianlong period, a special book "Taiji Zhuan" began to be published. The Chen family attached importance to martial arts because they fled, and formed a martial arts family. In Henan, which is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, they have become martial arts masters with a hundred schools of thought contending. The miscellaneous things they learn naturally include martial arts routines with strong actual combat, such as Changquan. However, Tai Ji Chuan's complicated inner method and Taoist principles cannot be created by ordinary martial artists, and must be tempered by Wu Tangmen for hundreds of years. Tai Chi originated from Wudang, which is natural from the characteristics of Wushu development, but it does not rule out that Wudang absorbed other boxing methods in turn and developed its own Tai Ji Chuan. In the end, Tai Ji Chuan must have absorbed the essence and principle of internal strength from Wudang Taoist Wushu, and rose from simple boxing theory such as Changquan to Tai Ji Chuan theory. In the meantime, Wang Zongyue should be the key figure. This is why Tai Ji Chuan became the first monograph on Tai Ji Chuan theory. The transmission of Tai Ji Chuan should be the product of the combination of Taoist Taiji and practical application, and become a wonderful flower in China and even the world.