Razmerje Taiji in daoizem / On Relation Between Taiji and Daoism

Sometimes mispronounced “tai-ch’i,” Taiji quan 太極拳 (T’ai-chi ch’üan) literally means “Supreme Ultimate Boxing.” Here Taiji 太極 (lit., “great ridgepole”) refers to yin-yang interaction, so that the modern Taiji diagram is the Yin-yang symbol. This diagram is sometimes used as a symbol for Chinese martial arts by martial artists and sometimes as a symbol for Daoism [...]

Chen Yanlin – kako vaditi / how to practice

Med številnimi napotki kako pristopiti učenja taijija, so v teh krajih izkušnje Chen Yanlina, kitajskega mojstra iz Šanghaja malo znane, a zelo koristne.
Spodaj je kratka predstavitev Chen Yanlina in kratek odlomek iz njegove znane knjige naslovljene preprosto Taijiquan. Knjiga je bila izdana v dvajsetih letih prejšnjega soteltja.Taijiquan ni bila Chen Yanlinova edina knjiga. Če ima [...]

Henning: On Politically Correct Treatment of Myths in the Chinese Martial arts

by Stanley Henning
There is a rising trend in the “Occidental” world of “Oriental” martial arts – the number of “scholars” who, in spite of making pretenses to upholding “academic standards”, are displaying no small amount of intellectual compromise by acting as apologists for the myths surroundingthe Chinese martial arts. They do this in a manner [...]

Tradicionalni način učenja TJQ

Prvotno se je Taijiquan pričelo poučevati s formo imenovano „13 figur“. Vsaki figuri se je posvetilo približno tri mesece. Figure so vadili v mirovanju in v gibanju. Mirovanje je imelo dva namena, prvi je bil memorizacija figure, drugi pa razvijanje njene tipične notranje energije. Vadba figure v gibanju ali „odrivanje rok“, se je izvajala zaradi [...]

Stanley Henning: IGNORANCE, LEGEND AND TAIJIQUAN

As one who has floated on the periphery of the martial arts community since I studied Yang-style Taijiquan in Taiwan back in 1970, I relish this opportunity to come forward and “toss some bricks to entice some jade,” and I am particularly pleased that my “reappearance” can at last take place on the pages of [...]

Jan Silberstorff: EINE FRAU ALS MITBEGRüNDERIN DES TAIJIQUAN

Chen Wangting (1597-1664) ist, wie allgemein bekannt und von allen offiziellen Stellen anerkannt, der Ahnherr und Urbegründer des Chen-Taijiquan. Aus dem Chenstil haben sich später alle weiteren bekannten Familienstile des Taijiquan entwickelt.
Chen Wangting, als General sehr Schlachtfeld erfahren, studierte nach dem Dynastiewechsel der Ming- zur Qingdynastie, in Zurückgezogenheit in seinem Heimatdorf Chenjiagou daoistische Lehren und [...]