Tai Chi

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Tai Chi Chuan
( Moving Meditation )

Tai Chi Chuan, or Taijiquan plainly means "supreme ultimate fist", generally known as Tai Chi,is an internal Chinese martial art. There are several styles of T'ai Chi Ch'üan, while most agree they are all have root on the system initially taught by the Chen family to the Yang family starting in 1820. It is frequently publicized and practiced as a martial arts healing for the intention fitness and wellness. T'ai Chi Ch'üan is known as a soft style martial art and practiced with intense relaxation or "softness" in the musculature as possible, to differentiate its concept and function from that of the hard martial art styles which apply a degree of tightness in the muscles. T'ai Chi Ch'uan is generally known in the West as the "yin-yang" symbol, T'ai Chi Ch'uan is said to be a study of yin (receptive) and yang (active) philosophy. The fundamental training includes two main categories : the first one is a slow series of movements that highlights a straight spine, calm breathing and a natural series of movements; the second is numerous styles of pushing hands for exercise and sensitivity in the reflexes during numerous movements from the forms in performance with a training partner to learn control, timing, harmonization and positioning when interacting with another. Pushing hands is seen as elemental not only for training the martial arts ability of a soft style such as T'ai Chi by indicating the forms' movement principles , but also it is said to expand upon the level of training provided by practice of the solo forms by multiplying the workload on trainee while they practice those movement principles. Some of T'ai Chi Ch'uan's forms are famous for the slow movements that people practice every morning in parks across China The conventional aim of T'ai Chi exercise is to teach consciousness of one's own poise and what affects it and understanding of the same in others both in intellectual and physical levels, and how this relates to actual self-defense philosophy T'ai Chi Ch'uan has been considered as a martial art, and its conventional practitioners even now teach it as one. All the same, it has developed a universal following with many thousands of people with very little interest in martial arts and self-defense. T'ai Chi philosophy and exercise progressed in harmony with principles of traditional Chinese medicine.