1. What are the characteristics of Taijiquan
1.1. Calm your mind, guide your mind and breathe naturally
All kinds of Taijiquan require single-minded thinking, quiet psychology, and use ideas to guide movements. It is necessary to be in the mind first and then in the body, to guide tranquility with meaning, and to integrate form and mind. When punching, breathe naturally and smoothly, and match with your movements.
1.2. Zhongzheng is comfortable, soft and coherent
Taijiquan requires standing upright and stable, posture relaxed and perfect, and body muscles and joints not tense and stiff. The movements are smooth and continuous.
1.3. The movements are flexible and coordinated
Taijiquan moves are mostly arc-shaped or spiral shaped, with round and smooth turns and natural connections.
The head, eyes, hands, feet and trunk should cooperate with each other, and the whole body should form a harmonious whole.
1.4 light and calm, combining hardness and softness
The movements of Taijiquan are “walking like a cat, and the strength is like pulling silk”. It is soft but not soft, hard but not hard, and full of toughness and flexibility. Even if you make an effort, you should be flexible and flexible.
2. What is the effect of Taijiquan
Promote blood circulation and increase lung capacity. When practicing Taijiquan, with the movement of the body, the circulation of blood and lymph is strengthened, and the congestion in the body is reduced. It is required to sink the elixir field with Qi during practice. Because of the deepening of breathing, the coronary circulation is promoted and the nutrition of the myocardium is strengthened.
It has the function of bodybuilding. The body method requirements of Taijiquan, such as top hanging, sinking shoulders and falling elbows, pulling out the back with chest, loosening the abdomen, opening the crotch and closing the buttocks, together with the waist rotation during practice, make the muscles of the whole body of the practitioner fully exercise and maintain a good body shape.
Improve people’s balance ability and prevent osteoporosis. When practicing Taijiquan, one leg often supports the weight of the whole body. When the force on the leg increases, the calcium content of the bone also increases, and the bone becomes very strong.
Enhance heart function, improve circulatory system and expand lung capacity. Heart disease is the number one killer in the world. At present, western medicine has no specific treatment for this disease. Practicing Taijiquan can prevent heart disease.
3. What’s special about practicing Taijiquan
The basic requirements of Taijiquan movement posture are: weak spirit and strong force, chest and back pulling, loose waist and buttocks, sinking shoulders and elbows, stretching fingers and sitting wrist, and tail Yan Zhongzheng.
If the action is not standardized during practice, it will not only affect your play, but also affect your understanding and inner feeling.
The standard Taijiquan technique requires that Qi sink in the Dantian, round crotch and live hip, drum inside and drum outside, movement such as silk drawing, and steps such as cat walking. All kinds of basic technical movements should be accurate in starting point, clear in running route, in place at ending point, consistent in movement, follow up and down, and cooperate with hands and eyes, so as to make the body move freely.
The key to Taijiquan is understanding, and greed for speed and quantity is unfavorable to understanding. Excessive exercise will lead to physical weakness and movement deformation, affect the internal feeling of “internal listening” and even form a wrong feeling of understanding.
When practicing Taijiquan, you must learn it under the guidance of professionals, including the extremely important help adjusting stakes, correcting movements, and guiding you to understand your inner feelings.
Which groups are suitable for practicing Taijiquan
Taijiquan is most suitable for people who are interested. As long as they want to learn it, it is not too late. But relatively speaking, the sooner they learn Taijiquan, the more benefits they will have. It is a little late to learn Taijiquan at the age of 50. It is acceptable for people who want to learn Taijiquan at the age of 60 or 70. It is a good sport to learn Taijiquan at the age of 30 or 40. It is best to learn Taijiquan at the age of ten or twenty.
Because modern people don’t pay much attention to health preservation, it’s very difficult for them to devote time to research and concentrate on learning Taijiquan for the deep taijimovement, taijiphilosophy, taijiartistic culture and taijiwushu. Therefore, most people set the age of the most suitable group to play taijiquan as the elderly group after retirement, which is what I said. I mistakenly treat “national treasures as hamburgers”.
What should we pay attention to when practicing Taijiquan
When practicing, you must understand the operation methods of the hands, eyes, body and steps of each move. When setting the position, you must know whether the external three in one is closed, that is, the hands and feet, the elbows and knees, and the shoulders and crotches.
If mistakes are found, they should be corrected at any time. Through repeated practice, speculation, guidance and posture, they will gradually become correct. The posture is correct and the movements are natural and coordinated, so that you can practice repeatedly from outside to inside, from rough to fine, from simple to complex.
On the basis of correct and stereotyped movements, we should not deviate from boxing principles, but should deviate from rules. In this way, the more we practice, the more delicate and dexterous we will be, the more we can experience a new realm, and the more we will integrate inside and outside, be consistent from top to bottom, and be connected with one Qi.
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