1. 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 are the advantages of practicing 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 should we pay attention to when 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.
What are the taboos of practicing Taijiquan
1. Avoid looseness and weakness
Relaxation is the door of Taijiquan and the first pass for Taijiquan practitioners to get started. Relaxation is to loosen the passes, joints and vertebrae, expand muscles, tendons and skin, and let Qi and blood flow directly to the tip. It must not be loose, untidy or lax.
2. Avoid rigidity and practice strength
Taijiquan means not exerting force, concealing hardness in softness, loosening is the gate of Taijiquan, rigidity is the stumbling block of Taijiquan, and stagnation of Qi and injury of Qi by exertion are the taboos of Taijiquan.
3. Don’t walk in
Taijiquan is an internal boxing, which focuses on both internal and external cultivation. If it is mixed with the moves of external boxing, it is difficult to enter the house.
4. Avoid mixed boxing and practice together
Practicing Taijiquan together with other acrobatic boxing can easily cause confusion of Qi and blood in the body, and it is difficult to practice all day long.
5. Don’t be too quick
Kung Fu is not obtained by learning alone, but by practicing. Only when you practice to the throat of fire can you succeed. There is no through train, and haste makes waste.
Who is not suitable for practicing Taijiquan
1. A man eager for quick success
Tai Chi has a lot of basic skills to learn, and we all know that Tai Chi is very slow, and it pays attention to seeking stillness while moving. Therefore, this boxing should be done step by step. It takes a long time from the beginning to the understanding of the essentials. Of course, this varies from person to person. However, some people who are more eager for quick success and instant benefit always want to practice quickly and achieve quick results with the help of some skills. In fact, this is contrary to the essence of Tai Chi. As we all know, this kind of skill pays more attention to the meaning, and this realm needs to be practiced to a certain extent before it can be mastered. Therefore, this method of health preservation is not suitable for people who are eager for quick success and instant benefit.
2. A restless person
Before practicing boxing, you should be calm. This is one of the essentials of practicing boxing. If you are always upset and angry, think about other things in your heart, and can’t meditate, such a person can’t even enter the state when practicing boxing. Under such a state of mind, the effect of practicing boxing can only stretch your muscles and bones, and can’t play the role of health preservation. Therefore, people with restless hearts are not suitable for health preservation by practicing boxing. They can first choose some other ways, such as meditation, to calm their hearts, and then practice Taijiquan to keep healthy.
3. People with knee problems
In the process of practicing boxing, many postures and movements will put pressure on the joints. If some people have problems with their knees, they may cause more serious problems after practicing Tai Chi. Therefore, people with knee problems can take other measures to recuperate their bodies, and do not choose sports such as climbing stairs and playing Tai Chi, which are too active to their joints.
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