Yang style Tai Chi is a main branch of Tai Chi. Its movements are slow and gentle, emphasizing the balance between the body and the spirit, which can enhance physical fitness and cultivate sentiment. It attracts many practitioners at home and abroad, with a unique style and appeal.
Origin of Yang style Tai Chi
Yang style Tai Chi was invented by Yang Luchan. During the Qing Dynasty, Yang Luchan devoted himself to learning Chen's Tai Chi, understood its core essence , and made innovations, and finally created Yang style Tai Chi with broad movements and stable rhythm. Later, he taught this boxing technique to the children of royal relatives, making Yang style Tai Chi popular outside the people and gaining popularity.
Its development history is very mysterious. Yang Luchan went to Chenjiagou three times to become a disciple. After countless hardships, he finally developed a skill, paving the way for the formation of Yang style Tai Chi and demonstrating the perseverance of exploration and innovation consciousness passed down from generation to generation in my country.
Features of Yang style Tai Chi
The most prominent advantage of Yang style Tai Chi is that the posture is relaxed and relaxed, unlike some martial arts moves that are strong and rapid. Every movement in this set of boxing flows naturally like water and clouds, connecting with each other without interruption. The practitioner is like immersed in the quiet mountains and rivers when practicing, and both the spirit and the body can be fully relieved.
In terms of force, it focuses on using softness to overcome hardness, and a very strong force is hidden in the gentle posture. For example, water, although soft and gentle, can drip the stone through. Practicing Yang style Tai Chi can make people know how to solve problems with a flexible and gentle attitude.
Yang style Tai Chi fitness effect
From an exercise perspective, this activity is beneficial to all aspects of the body. It helps to strengthen the function of the heart and lungs. With the help of gentle and deep breathing and regular movements, the heart can be healthier and breathe smoother. At the same time, it can also improve the body's flexibility and balance ability, and encourage each joint to be fully exercised, thereby reducing the possibility of injury.
Regular practice of Yang's Tai Chi is very beneficial for mental adjustment. It can reduce the mental burden and make people forget their daily worries. When practicing boxing, they can only focus on movements and enter the state of forgetting both things and self, so it helps maintain a stable mood.
Yang Style Tai Chi School Branch
As time goes by, Yang style Tai Chi has derived multiple branches, such as Yang Jianhou, Yang Chengfu and others, each of which has its own advantages. The routine taught by Yang Jianhou is relatively compact and suitable for people with small venues or weak bodies. The routines inherited by Yang Chengfu are generous and more ornamental and practical.
While inheriting the core elements of Yang style Tai Chi, these branches have improved and expanded according to the requirements of each period and the specific situation of practitioners, making Yang style Tai Chi more diverse and able to adapt to the needs of different groups.
Yang Style Tai Chi Inheritance Protection
The current continuation process of Yang style Tai Chi encounters several difficulties, such as young people pay less attention to traditional martial arts, and there are relatively few successors who are proficient in this art. However, at the same time, many knowledgeable people are working hard. Some martial arts institutions have opened Tai Chi Courses Online, a teaching project for Yang Style Tai Chi, so that more students have the opportunity to contact and study. Some inheritors are active in the friendship activities of martial arts at home and abroad.
Maintaining Yang's Tai Chi not only means maintaining a fighting skill, but also represents protecting Chinese cultural heritage. Each of us has the responsibility to participate and help this skill be continued through practice, promotion and other means.
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