陈氏太极拳简介

      太极拳在长期流传发展中,逐步演化成具有代表性、风格特点又各不相同的陈、杨、吴、武、孙五大流派。而这其中,杨、吴、武、孙又是从陈式太极中派生出来的。
    陈式太极拳是明末战将,河南温县陈家沟陈氏第九代陈王庭所创。他在家传拳术的基础上,博采诸家拳术之长,依据“易经”阴阳之理,中医经络学说及导引、吐纳术,综合性地创造了一套符合人体生理规律和大自然的运转规律的拳术运动。
起初,陈式太极拳只在家族内部演练,鲜为人知。到陈氏十四代陈长兴时,传给河北永年人杨路禅,以后在社会上慢慢流传开来。
     数百年来,陈式太极拳仍保留着古太极拳最基本的元素。它刚柔相济、快慢相间、窜蹦跳跃、松活弹抖的特色,以及缠绕螺旋的运气方法,卓越的健身养生与技击价值著称于武坛,深受人们的喜爱。

Introduction of Chen Style Taijiquan

Over years of development, Taijiquan has gradually evolved into five distinctive major schools as Chen, Yang, Wu, Wuu and Sun Style Taijiquan. Chen Style Taiji is the oldest style. All other styles are derived from Chen Style Taiji.
The ninth generation Chen Wangting, a warrior of the end of Ming Dynasty, who was born in Chenjiagou, Wen County in Henan province, found Chen Style Taijiquan。Based on the theory of Yin-Yang derived from the Book of Changes, Meridian theory of TCM, channeling and breathing control, combined the advantages of various martial arts, created this technique which is suitable with principles of human physiology and of nature.
Originally Chen Style Taijiquan had only been practiced among family members. Rarely know by the outside world, until the fourteenth generation Chen Changxing who took Yang Luchan as his disciple, who’s from Yongnian, Hebei Province, an outsider of Chen clan. From then on, Chen Style Taijiquan grew in popularity.
After hundreds of years of evolution, you can still find those basic elements of ancient Taijiquan in nowadays Chen Style Taijiquan. Chen Style Taiji is characterized by its contrary gentle and explosive, slow and fast, hard and soft style in its leaps, skip-steps, stamping and shaking. Its unique method of “silk reeling”, outstanding health-building power and attack and defense skills, make it famous in martial art field, and become one of the most popular Chinese martial arts in the world.