There are still different opinions about when Tai Ji Chuan began. Let's just use the term "China Encyclopedia Dictionary" here. According to the annotations of Tai Ji Chuan and Chen Wangting in this dictionary, Tai Ji Chuan started in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, creating a fist for wen county and Chen Wangting. If this is the basis, then Tai Ji Chuan has been circulating for 4 years. During this historical development, many Wulin elites and Tai Ji Chuan fans have accumulated rich experience. These experiences were spread in the form of words, which created boxing works, while others became classics that people looked up to, leading the development direction of Tai Ji Chuan. Or spread orally, condensed into a boxing proverb that everyone relishes, active in boxing, living in people's hearts, becoming a code of conduct or motto, inspiring people to move forward.
Gorky, a master of Russian literature, said: "Proverbs and songs are always short, but they contain wisdom and feelings that can write a whole book." Tai Ji Chuan's famous sayings and boxing proverbs have such characteristics. They are the crystallization of wisdom. These famous sayings and boxing proverbs combine fitness, health preservation and technical skills in one furnace, which are highly ideological, artistic and practical. They are the essence of Tai Ji Chuan culture and an important part of China traditional culture. If someone gathers them and applies to UNESCO for inclusion in the intangible cultural heritage list, they and the whole Tai Ji Chuan culture will be a strong competitor. Based on Tai Ji Chuan's love and persistence, we collected some famous sayings and proverbs from Tai Ji Chuan in the process of learning boxing, and selected 233 of them, sorted them out, and shared them with Tai Ji Chuan fans. Maybe one day they will play a greater role. For the convenience of Tai Ji Chuan fans, we have classified these famous sayings and boxing proverbs according to their contents, which are roughly divided into five parts: boxing theory, boxing method, martial arts, health preservation and martial arts, and try to indicate their sources for reference. If there is no evidence to check at the moment or the source cannot be found, it will be marked as "boxing proverb", "boxing theory" and "creed" for later correction.
Tai Ji Chuan's famous sayings and boxing proverbs have profound historical accumulation, and they are rich in language and content. In the process of sorting out, there will inevitably be many unsatisfactory places, and we hope that the majority of Tai Ji Chuan fans will correct their mistakes.
First, the boxing theory
Yi has Tai Chi, which means two instruments are born, two instruments give birth to four images, and four images give birth to eight diagrams.
-I ching copula upload
tai chi, Tao also. Two instruments, yin and yang.
-Zhouyi
Tai Chi is infinite, and everything is born. Holding Yang with negative resistance means Tai Chi and two instruments.
-Zhouyi
Taoism is natural.
-Laozi: Tao Te Ching
Heaven and man are one.
-Mencius
infinite and tai chi, tai chi moves and generates yang, while moving extremely and quietly; Static leads to yin, and static pole moves again. -moving and being quiet are the roots of each other.