What is the Taiji Knife Art like?

Taijiquan knife is a short instrument of Taijiquan movement series, and its stylistic characteristics should be based on the requirements and manners of Taijiquan stance and footwork. The techniques and movements of the Taijiquan knife should be continuous, clear, in place, rigid and flexible, and the movements of the knife hand should be coordinated and coordinated.

The initial model of the Taiji sword was derived from the ring-headed sword which was widely used in the Western Han Dynasty. The so-called "ring head knife" is characterized not only by the ring at the head of the knife, but more importantly by the shape of the knife, which has a long and narrow body, longer than the general knife, and is evolved from the long iron sword. Back thick blade thin, the weight of the hand, the knife body slightly with the arc curve, the hilt is long three grip, can be wielded with both hands. If used with one hand, the length of the handle can be reduced by half and curved downward, the front of the blade three inches, the two sides of the blade like a sword.

In the ancient battlefield, the ring head knife hacking and slashing, can be said to be mighty, and can be wrapped in the body viscous frame, hide the knife rolled into, so the first had a single long blade sword name.

Tang Dynasty, taiji sword is also known as "single-backed sword", may be a change in the two-handed sword, in the shape of the dagger without a wide head, similar to the shape and the Japanese sword. The blade has one side and a swastika shape at the hand guard, and the front hand guard can lock enemy weapons. The blade was narrow and could not be wrapped in a head-wrapping style.

After that, Wang Jieqi created the Taiji Thirteen Sword Art. Wang Jieqi is a Hebei Xincheng people, born in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, living in Yizhou Wugong Mountain, known as "Wugong Mountain Man", rich in martial arts writings, including the book "Thirteen Knife Art". The book on the knife art, the trend of borrowing power, but not still want to force, etc., are the best knife art.

Taiji knife art is common: Chen's Taiji knife, Yang's Taiji knife, Wu's Taiji knife and so on.

Chen's Taiji is the ancestral source of all schools of Taiji. Chen Wangting, the founder of Chen's Taiji, loved to hold a sword and move a gun since he was a young boy. When he was 18 years old, he had mastered the book of sutra, history, and zi ji; he had mastered all 18 weapons, including knives, guns, swords, and clubs, and was skilled in bowing and horsemanship.

Chen Wang Ting looks like heavy jujube face, long beard floating chest, wearing a green robe, often using a handle of green dragon crescent knife, also known as the "Spring and Autumn Sword", a fierce look, really like the Three Kingdoms period of the Guan Yunchang in the world, so people send him a nickname "two Guan Gong! "

Chen Chen was a great master of the art of sword fighting, and he was able to defeat all of his opponents in the martial arts field.

The names of Chen's Taiji Chunqiu Dagger Routines are mostly named after Guan Yu, such as Guan Yunchang Carrying a Sword on the Dam Bridge, White Clouds Covering the Top and Calling it Heroic, Raising the Sword and Grinding the Flag with the Moon in His Arms, Scaring Xu Chu to Death with the Upper Three Knives, and Frightening Cao Cao with the Lower Three Knives, and so on.

Later, Chen evolved the Spring and Autumn Sword into a class of short swords under the step, Chen's Taiji Single Sword includes

22 postures named Single Sword Starting Posture, Protecting the Heart Sword, Green Dragon Out of the Water, Black Tiger Searching for the Mountain, Su Qin Carrying the Sword, Golden Rooster Standing Alone, and Embracing the Moon in the Embrace, and so on.

After the development and evolution, but also the creation of the Taiji double sword, set *** have thirty-four styles, named such as the full dance flower sunrise, geese don't gold wings, the king of the tripod, Luohan descending dragons, on the step of the seven stars, and so on.

Yang's Taiji knife art by the Hebei Province, Guangping Province, Yang Lu Chan from Chen Changxing, Yang Lu Chan in Jixian Desheng dart board that year, with this knife walk, dart protection in Hebei, Shandong area, four generations of grandchildren with this knife art family. At that time, due to the imperial court's prohibition, this knife art was not widely spread, only in the disciples of the inheritance. Due to the regulations, it was usually practiced with wooden knives or theater knives, so it was rare to see its true appearance, and the number of people who got its true transmission was scarce. Yang's Taiji sword practice routine, there are thirteen sentences:

Seven stars across the tiger cross the sword, vacillating and flashing the intention to raise.

Left and right look forward to the two parts of the Zhang, white cranes spread wings and five lines of palm.

The wind is blowing in the lotus leaves, and the jade maiden is traveling through the eight directions.

The three stars open and close themselves, and the two feet beat the tiger.

The foot of the mandarin ducks hangs diagonally from the body, and the whip is used as a pole to push the boat along with the water.

The lower posture of the three stars is free to move, and the left and right water divides the Dragon Gate to jump.

Bian He brings the stone and the phoenix returns to the nest.

Later, in order to facilitate memorization, according to the meaning of the situation, the spectrum is as follows: Seven Stars and Tiger Crossing Knife Stance: Including the starting position, seven stars on the step, retrogressing across the tiger, holding the knife, open

steps to hand over the knife in five stances. Flickering and Tengting: Includes flickering and lifting the knife, slanting and inserting the golden branch, embracing the moon in the bosom, the green dragon coming out of the

sea, progressing and pushing the knife, and changing the step and pushing the knife. Left and Right: Includes two styles, the Back Body Chop and the Turning Body to Fish for the Moon. White Crane Spreading Wings and Five Elements Palm: Includes White Crane Spreading Wings and Fan Tongbei. Wind Rolling Lotus Leaves: Includes Wind Rolling Lotus Leaves, Turning Back and Pointing the Way, and Single Whip. Jade Maiden Shuttle: Includes 8 knife styles, including Slanting Golden Branch, Jade Maiden Shuttle, Drunken Horse, Three Steps to Chase the Wind, Jade Maiden Shuttle, Jade Maiden Shuttle, Drunken Horse, and Three Steps to Chase the Wind. Three-star opening and closing self-assertion: including swallow throwing, three-star opening and closing, progressing to hide the knife, jade woman wearing

shuttle, with drunkenness le horse, three steps to chase the wind and so on. Two feet to fight the tiger: including the open step to cross the knife, the right foot, left and right to fight the tiger three styles. Phi body diagonal hanging mandarin ducks foot: including phi body kicking foot, cross knife split and hanging foot to send the book. Shun Shui Push Boat Whip as Penny: Includes two styles of horizontal whip and whirlwind falling geese. Downward momentum triple free stance: contains left and right sweeping block and pushing boat with water. Left and Right Water Splitting and Dragon Gate Jumping: *** There are two styles: Left and Right Water Splitting and Carp Leaping Dragon Gate Jumping. Bianhe Carrying Stone Phoenix Returning to Nest: includes Moving Tiger, Flying Phoenix Returning to Nest, Retreating Seven Stars, and Returning to the Origin to Close the Potential.

It is said that in the past, the Yang family used Taiji knives, which are practical knives with a ring head, especially Yang Chengfu, who reformed and experimented with the practical knives by making the hand guards S-shaped or Ruyi shaped, with the lower part bending backward to protect the fingers, and the upper part bending forward so that the thumbs can be used to hold down the guards to increase the strength of the chopping force and to block the other side of the knife blade and apply the bending force.

While the names of the various transmission into the record, the number of slightly different, the knife art is still based on the intention of the main gas, the appearance of the momentum, so it is necessary to practice slowly in order to understand the body know the heart to understand, rigid and flexible. Wu Zhaozhong "sword" records: "the sword hold if hold, hold to real response; sword hold if hold, hold to change, so the sword of the different, like jingwei."

Sun's Taiji Snow Blade is one of the instrument sets left behind by Sun Lutang, the founder of Sun's Taiji. The form of this knife art is powerful, calm and swift, chopping, hacking, teasing, stabbing, leaping, stealing, flipping, and changing body techniques, with light steps and unpredictable changes in the way of the knife.

Taiji knife its potential to sink and male, like a tiger, in order to force the pouncing vertical and horizontal also; its light spirit, Xuyi, pitching eight tables, rolling and winding also, not to spend the method of dazzling. Knife art of the tight, tight is unremitting, dense is not sparse, in order to rush to take the late also. Therefore, it is unremittingly progressive, not sparse is rigorous, the guard of the self-solid.

The eye method of Taiji knife is not focused on both eyes, looking at the knife to see the palm, or looking at the knife to see the palm, it is easy to omit, and it is most important to be concerned about it. The moves of the Taiji sword are in the same direction, there is a twisting of the waist to turn into, but not to wrap the head around the brain, there is a flash chopping and slanting stabbing, but not to do a forceful splitting of the Huashan.

The footwork of Taiji sword is about walking freely, tend to step without pressure, step back without haste, and body law maneuvers, to achieve a family of the body, the intention to connect the gas coherence, it is close to the road.