Tai Chi (Wu Style Tai Chi)

Daxing District, Beijing
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The founder of Wu-style Tai Chi, Quan You, a Manchu, was from Daxing during the late Qing Dynasty. The foundation, finalization, and development of Wu-style Tai Chi were all completed in Daxing, Beijing. Daxing, Beijing is the historical source of the development of Wu-style Tai Chi. At the end of the 19th century, Quan You, a Manchu, successively learned from Yang Luchan and his son Yang Banhou in the royal palace to practice small and large frame Tai Chi. After years of careful and hard practice, he gradually formed a medium frame Tai Chi with his own style and characteristics, laying the foundation for the formation of Wu-style Tai Chi. After Quan You passed away in 1902, his disciples Wang Maozhai and Wu Jianquan (Quan You's son) finalized it as Wu-style Tai Chi after years of intensive research. Its characteristics are: central, upright, comfortable, no vertical or jumping, no hitting or sending, gentle and slow, relaxed and natural, compact and stretched, flexible and agile, and the integration of acupoints, hitting, holding (joint reversal), sending (throwing), throwing, falling, and unloading (bone) are contained but not revealed. While inheriting the predecessors, successive generations of inheritors have boldly innovated to enrich the content. At present, this type of boxing includes: Tai Chi standing exercises, boxing routines, weapon routines, Tai Chi push hands, Tai Chi free-hand, small exercises for curing diseases and keeping fit, etc. Wu style Tai Chi (Northern style) is a philosophical boxing, brain skills, with multiple functions such as health preservation, curing diseases and strengthening the body, self-defense and violence resistance, cultivating sentiments, and martial arts education.

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