Archive for the 'Chinese Tai Chi' Category

Chinese Kung Fu Uniforms: Traditional Chinese silk clothing for Tai Chi and Martial Arts Masters

Chinese Kung Fu Uniform:  Traditional Chinese silk clothing for Tai Chi and Martial Arts Masters
Traditional Chinese silk clothing has a long history, dating back to the 27th century BC.
Once the skill of spinning silk, or sericulture, was discovered, the Chinese made silk exclusively for 3,000 years without divulging the secret of the process and it [...]

Tai Chi Chuan: Diagram of Thirteen Trends and Tai Chi Derivation

Tai Chi Chuan: Diagram of Thirteen Trends and Tai Chi Derivation
This showed that denomination of Tai Chi was based on comparison with the eight basic movement methods and five forms to the Eight Diagrams, Five Xing and its generated number of “Yi with Tai Chi Diagram”.
Except aforesaid analogies on movements & forms and practice contents [...]

Tai Chi practice methods and ancient boxing table

Tai Chi practice methods and ancient boxing table
There are two sorts of sayings in Tai Chi practice methods and ancient Quan tables that compare the  “Thirteen Trends” to generated number of Tai Chi. One was Chen Ziming’s analogy of  “Thirteen” to the generated number of Tai Chi. The derivation procedure of Tai Chi was like [...]

Ancient Chinese Kung Fu and Its Influence on Tai Chi

Ancient Chinese Kung Fu and Its Influence on Tai Chi
Chinese ancient Wushu has been developing in thousands of years of simple weapon age on the basis of the philosophy of “One Yin and one Yang forms Dao”. In the middle age of Ming dynasty, the ancient Wushu reached its peak, yet still adhering to the [...]