Chen Tai Chi: Essentially, A Fighting Discipline
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Though Tai Chi had been in existence even before the Ming Dynasty ruled China in the thirteenth century, Chen Tai Chi came to be discovered in the seventeenth century when there were many wars being fought in China and this form of Tai Chi was akin to a discipline of fighting and the best known of the fighting disciplines was the Chen Tai Chi that was the creation of Chen Wang T’ing, a person that was serving the Chinese general called Chi Chi-Guang. In fact, it was General Chi Chi-Guang that first penned the “classic of Kung Fu” that was the forerunner to what has since become known as Chen Tai Chi.
Old School And New School
In fact, the Chen Tai Chi has two main traditions though both traditions combined the teachings of the Chen Family as taught by Chiang Fa and those of the more traditional Pao Chui art that came from the Shaolin Temple custom. There is thus the old school and the new school of Tai Chi with the old school being developed from Chen Chiang-hsing and also one of his students named Chen Gen-yun. The new school of Chen Tai Chi came about from another source which was the one developed by Chen You-heng who was also studying under Chiang Fa and which later came to be developed by Chen Xin who is the most recent developer of Chen Tai Chi. However, the Old Frame Chen Tai Chi is quite close to the New Frame Chen Style though it differs from the Yang as well as Wu Styles by not being based on the thirteen postures that are central to Wu and Yang Styles.
Chen Tai Chi is very old and also the parent kind of tai chi chuan styles and it ranks number three as far as worldwide popularity is concerned, and it has the characteristic of using lower stances as well as using power bursts.
More recently, Chen Tai Chi has been thought of as being a main style that relates to Chinese martial arts and much of this recognition can be attributed to the efforts of Chen Xin who has tried to popularize this style of Tai Chi as witnessed in the publication of his classic book entitled Taijiquan Illustrated. And, other reasons for the popularity of Chen Tai Chi is because of the many real descendants from the Chen Village family who have become international ambassadors for this art and who are known as Four Buddha Warrior Attendants. And, with the globe shrinking thanks to increased travel opportunities, the West too has caught on to this craze, especially after the eighties.
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