http://taichi.iflove.com Tai Chi and Chi Kung in Chinese Kung Fu - Wide-spread Practicing with Health Protection Thought and Technical Characters Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:32:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Tai Chi sports concept and the characters of Tai Chi sporting system make Tai Chi a sports which comprises the common functions of building up one’s health, defending against attacks and cultivating the mind as well as some special functions corresponding to its characters, and develops the value of ... http://taichi.iflove.com/tai-chi-sports-concept-expanding-functions-wushu/ If we compare the concept and the technical structure of Tai Chi with those of western sports, we can clearly identify the characteristics of Tai Chi concept. Tai Chi sports concept and western sports concept have a common aim: building up physical and mental strength through sports, so to promote human ... http://taichi.iflove.com/tai-chi-concept-characteristics/ It is believed that the universe is originated as well as included in “Tai Chi” or the “extreme polar”, hence “real virtue tolerates everything". On one hand, things on earth are different from one another because they have different polarity, Yin or Yang; but on the other hand, everything originates ... http://taichi.iflove.com/taiji-principle-dealing-outside-world-tolerance-and-harmony/ All the rules of Tai Chi can be condensed into “pursuing neutrality in movement,” to which every practitioner shall abide by in practice. The “neutrality” pursued in Tai Chi is by no means static neutrality. Just like the “s curve in pursuing neutrality by movement”, Tai Chi advocates the pursuit of ... http://taichi.iflove.com/taiji-rule-pursue-neutrality-movement/ “Neutrality, stability and ease” is a method of “neutrality and harmony” characterizing Tai Chi practice. In the state of neutrality, stability and ease, the body of a practitioner remains at ease with his limbs naturally extending. The crux is “stability” Only when one’s heart and body remain stable, can one stay ... http://taichi.iflove.com/tai-chi-practice-method-neutrality-stability-and-ease/ “Being Moderate, flat and gentle” is the way of standardizing the gestures, movement speed and intensity when play Tai Chi. (a) Moderate, flat and gentle postures: When practicing Tai Chi, it is required to maintain a situation of “neutralization” of the postures with a parallel move of barycenter. This technique requires that ... http://taichi.iflove.com/tai-chi-gesture-features-moderate-flat-and-gentle/ “Correctness and Activeness” is the “neutral” way to correct postures and movements of Tai Chi.  (a) “Correct and active” postures in Tai Chi “Correctness” means that postures should be “even-handed.”  One should seek for the equilibrium in the Tai Chi Symbol where the Qi of Yang rises and that of Yin ebbs, ... http://taichi.iflove.com/tai-chi-postures-correctness-and-activeness/ “Coordination of movements to achieve the middlebrow” is the way to realize “neutrality” in Tai Chi. In Tai Chi, the principle of “Consciousness dominates movement” is highlighted.  The ancient chart of Tai Chi table required that “Let consciousness dominate Qi, “Let Qi perforate the body” and “Let consciousness be the emperor ... http://taichi.iflove.com/tai-chi-neutrality-way-coordination-movements-achieve-middlebrow/ There is a dynamic equilibrium in the increasing changing derivation of “Tai Chi.”  In the “Tai Chi Symbol consisting of Yin and Yang bequeathed by the ancient Chinese people, the circle which can be both“immeasurably large without boundaries and minute without contents” and the S-shaped dividing line in the middle ... http://taichi.iflove.com/tai-chi-law-neutrality-and-self-discipline/ According to the basic principle of transforming of Yin and Yang, ending of Yin is just beginning of Yang, ending of Yang is just beginning of Yin. Repetition of transforming of Yin and Yang never ends. Every thing and phenomenon has its own process of beginning, developing and transforming, and ... http://taichi.iflove.com/taijiquan-converse-movement-principle/