When mentioning Wudang Mountain, everyone will think of Zhang Sanfeng’s Tai Chi. Zhang Sanfeng’s Tai Chi has to be said to be the essence of Tai Chi. It combines its own academic knowledge based on the characteristics of Tai Chi. Below is what I compiled for you: Introduction to Zhang Sanfeng Tai Chi. Welcome to read!

Introduction to Zhang Sanfeng’s Tai Chi

Zhang Sanfeng’s martial arts can be said to be well-known in the martial arts world. Zhang Sanfeng created Tai Chi to not only prolong his life, but also to The set of boxing techniques he summarized are also very beneficial to modern people.

Zhang Sanfeng, a famous Taoist priest in Wudang Mountain during the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. According to historical records, Zhang Sanfeng was named Zhang Quanyi, with the courtesy name Xuanxuan and the nickname Sanfeng. A native of Yizhou, Liaodong. He is tall and tall, with the shape of a turtle and crane bones, big ears and round eyes, and a beard and beard like a halberd. In the cold and summer, I have only one straw, whether I am in a poor mountain, or traveling in a busy city? I never forget my books and scriptures, and when I speak words and sentences, I focus on morality, benevolence, justice, loyalty and filial piety.

?So the heart and supernatural powers, God and Tao are one, and everything is prescient. Maybe one meal every three to five days, or one meal every two or three months; when you are happy, you walk across mountains and rocks; when you are tired, you lie on clouds and in the snow. Your movement and residence are unpredictable. Everyone is different, and you think you are a god.

Wudang Taoist alchemy has a long history, focusing on the cultivation of inner alchemy. Inner elixir is practiced using the breathing method, and the Qi is converted into elixir, so as to achieve the effect of strengthening the body.

Zhang Sanfeng has profound attainments in inner elixirs. He said in "Song of the Great Dao": Before refining the elixir, you should refine your nature; before you cultivate the great medicines, you should first cultivate your heart. When your mind is calm and you believe in the natural elixirs, your temperament will be born from the medicinal materials.

It vividly describes the formation process of inner elixir from refining essence, returning elixir with gold liquid, and collecting herbs and sealing it. Zhang Sanfeng has many works on inner elixirs, such as "The Essential Purpose of the Golden Elixir", "The Secret of the Golden Elixir", "Song of the Return of the Golden Elixir", "Twenty-Four Purposes of the Rootless Tree", "Song of the True Immortal of Diyuan", etc., which were published in the Ming Dynasty. . Later generations compiled "The Complete Works of Mr. Zhang Sanfeng", consisting of eight volumes.

Zhang Sanfeng not only has profound attainments in inner alchemy, but also has high martial arts skills and is good at boxing and swordsmanship. Based on Taoist theories such as "Tao follows nature" and "Keeping soft virginity", he mixed, created and combined the Taoist inner alchemy skills, the health-preserving master's guiding skills, the martial artist's boxing skills, and the military strategist's art of war. evolution.

He has made a comprehensive contribution and created a unique kung fu that takes inner elixir as the body, martial arts as the purpose, health preservation as the first priority, body defense as the key, using softness to overcome hardness, using stillness to stop, leveraging force to strike, and attacking later. The techniques, movement systems and forms of Wudang Neijiaquan. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people in martial arts often called Zhang Sanfeng the founder of Wudang Neijia Quan and Tai Chi.

After the inheritance and development of the masters of the past generations, Wudang martial arts has become an important school of Chinese martial arts, and has gradually spread among the people, with far-reaching influence.

Zhang Sanfeng entered Wudang Mountain in the early Ming Dynasty and worshiped Emperor Xuan (Emperor Zhenwu) at Tianzhu Peak. He built a thatched hut on the northern edge of Zhanqifeng Peak to offer incense to Emperor Xuan, and another in Loess. There is a thatched nunnery on the ground of Chengbu, named "Huixian Pavilion". He once said to the elders in the mountain: "My mountain will be very different in the future from today."

Later, Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty really overhauled Wudang Mountain and named it the first of the five mountains, called "Dayue".

In the 22nd year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Sanfeng left Wudang Mountain and disappeared. At that time, King Zhu Bai of Hunan visited Wudang Mountain, but could not find Zhang Sanfeng. He wrote a poem "Poem in Praise of Immortal Zhang Zhen". The poem goes: "Zhang Xuanxuan, the God of Love." Drink the clear stream of Jiudu in the morning, and stay in the purple smoke of Nanyan in the evening. How many years have passed since the good mountain calamity came, and it will not move along with the scenery.

I looked for the empty mountain and couldn’t find it, but I felt so miserable! In the lonely hut in the empty pine tree, only Lao Mi was sleeping under the pine tree.

In the 24th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang sent envoys from the Three Mountains to clean up Taoism. Because Zhang Sanfeng was famous far and wide, he specifically told the envoys: "If you have Zhang Xuanxuan, please come over." But Zhang Sanfeng was never found.

When Zhu Di, Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty, succeeded to the throne, he very much wanted to invite Zhang Sanfeng, a real immortal who had a great influence on the people, to the imperial court. He sent people to look for him many times. There is also a letter to Zhang Sanfeng's "Imperial Letter": The emperor pays homage to Mr. Zhang Sanfeng, the true immortal of the book: I have admired the true immortal for a long time, and I long to personally inherit the etiquette and example. He sent envoys to offer incense and offer books, and visited famous mountains to offer pious invitations. True immortals have lofty morals, are beyond all existence, and are mysterious and mysterious. My talents are mediocre, but my sincere desire to see you will never be forgotten. I would like to send my envoys to offer incense and offer the book a pious invitation. They will be driven by clouds, chariots and phoenixes, and they will arrive gracefully. With my fists and fists in my arms, I will worship the book. The tenth day of February in the tenth year of Yongle?. This shows his eagerness to see and admire Zhang Sanfeng.

After missing it for a long time, Zhu Di, Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty, went to build the "Yuzhen Palace" for Zhang Sanfeng in Wudang Mountain, built a bronze statue for people to worship, and sent officials to sweep it. The supreme emperor built a temple specifically for a Wudang Taoist priest, which is unique in the history of Chinese Taoism.

Zhang Sanfeng, the master of all things

Before Zhang Sanfeng, there was Ge Hong who created Tai Chi magic and Tai Chi secret method in the Eastern Jin Dynasty; there was the prototype of Xiaojiutian created by Han Gongyue, a Liangguo in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Tai Chi refers to Xu Xuanping who lived in seclusion on the road in the Tang Dynasty. There is "Lan Seventeen Style Tai Chi"; there is Li Daozi who created "Yu Style Tai Chi".

Yu Lianzhou in the Ming Dynasty created "Xiantian Boxing"; among the people, there are "Nianzhan Boxing", "Moyu Boxing", "Mian Boxing" and so on.

Zhang Sanfeng refined and sublimated the above-mentioned boxing techniques, integrated Taoist philosophy into Tai Chi skills, and created a set of Wudang Neijia boxing that combines theory and practice represented by the "Thirteen Postures of Tai Chi".

Together with the Buddhist Shaolin Boxing, they are known as the two wonders of Chinese martial arts. As a result, Tai Chi became famous and spread throughout the world, forming a situation in the history of martial arts that "Wudang is respected in the south and Shaolin is worshiped in the north." From this point of view, in the history of Tai Chi, Zhang Sanfeng actually achieved great success. These historical traces of Tai Chi inheritance are the origins and clues of Zhang Sanfeng’s original style of Tai Chi.

Zhang Sanfeng’s theory of Tai Chi

Zhang Sanfeng’s life and the circumstances of his founding of the martial arts school

There are different legends about Zhang Sanfeng. According to the "Biography of Zhang Sanfeng" in "The Biography of Fang Ji in the History of the Ming Dynasty", he was a native of Yizhou, Liaodong (now Yixian County, Liaoning), with the given name Quanyi, the courtesy name Junbao, the nickname Sanfeng, and the righteous name Xuanxuanzi. His ancestral home is Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi Province. He looks tall and majestic, with a turtle-shaped crane's back, big ears and round eyes, and a beard and beard like a halberd.

He is usually unkempt and only wears a piece of grass in the cold and hot weather, so he is called "Zhang Sloppy". His whereabouts are erratic, he does things strangely, he never forgets his books and scriptures, he is good at playing and playing as if there is no one else around him. He traveled to Wudang Mountain many times, where he built a thatched hut and lived there, refining elixirs and practicing boxing. Later, he went to Qingcheng and Heming Mountains in Sichuan to visit Taoism and seek truth.

Zhang Sanfeng wrote quite a lot throughout his life, and some of his more credible works handed down from generation to generation include "On the Great Dao", "Xuan Ji Zhi Tu" and "Xuan Yao Pian". Zhang Sanfeng and his disciples practiced Taoism in Wudang Mountain. Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty built the Wudang Official Temple specifically for him, so his alchemy method was passed down and was called the "Wudang Taoist Sect".

It has five characteristics

1. Worship "Emperor Zhenwu" and regard Emperor Zhenwu as the ancestor

Emperor Zhenwu is the god of the seven constellations in the north, and his statue It is the Turtle Snake, the great northern god believed in by Taoism. Wudang Mountain has been a Taoist dojo since ancient times to worship the God of Zhenwu.

2. Taking the "Tai Chi" theory as the fundamental doctrine

Zhang Sanfeng's alchemy thought originated from the Chen Tuan School, which is based on the theory of "Wuji" and Tai Chi. His article "Tao Lun" systematically expounded the Taoist thought of Tai Chi dividing yin and yang, using yin and yang inversely, and following the yin and yang to create a human being, and reversing the yin and yang to become an immortal. He believed that the heaven and earth are one Tai Chi, and the human body is also one Tai Chi. Knowing the Tai Chi of this heaven and earth, Tai Chi in the human body can be used to practice boxing and refine elixirs to achieve Taoism and fruition.

3. The process of practicing inner alchemy first and then clear cultivation

Zhang Sanfeng’s alchemy method belongs to the system of dual cultivation of inner alchemy, which is based on "Xuanji Zhizhi", "Xuanyao Pian" and "Wuxi". Root Tree" is the representative. Its refining method is called "immortal planting method", which uses double cultivation to collect external medicine, and uses Qing cultivation to nourish internal medicine. External medicine is produced in the Cave of Creation, and internal medicine is produced in the Guanyuan Qi Cave of the body. The internal medicine is essence, and the external medicine is smoke. The internal medicine is sex, and the external medicine establishes life. Only by cultivating both sex and life can the way of immortality be combined. After the middle period of the Ming Dynasty, the Wudang Taoist sect merged into the Quanzhen Longmen sect, and the dual cultivation method was lost because it was inconsistent with the purpose of the Quanzhen Northern Sect. From this time on, the Qing cultivation method replaced the dual cultivation method.

4. Created the Wudang Neijia Boxing Skills and formed the Taoist martial arts school

There are many people who practiced martial arts in the history of Taoism, such as Taoist Wang Chongyang once held a martial arts competition and Bai Yuchan served as a knight. He was fond of martial arts, but it was not until the rise of Wudang Taoism that the Taoist martial arts sect was formed. Wudang Neijia boxing skills are one of the best in the history of Taoism, and the first credit for its creation should be attributed to Wudang Taoist Zhang Sanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Zhang Sanfeng suddenly gained an understanding after watching the fight between magpies and snakes, so he compiled and performed Tai Chi. Huang Baijia's "Neijia Quanfa" of the Qing Dynasty, "Wang Zhengnan's Epitaph", "Ningbo Prefecture Chronicles - Biography of Zhang Songxi" and other related articles all believe that Zhang Sanfeng is the founder of Wudang Neijia Quan.

5. Taking "Tao Te Ching" as the theoretical basis of Plane Boxing