What does Tai Chi's "crotch back arc" do?
is actually simulating horseback fighting!
"Tai Chi" and " Wing Chun " and many other types of boxing born in the Qing Dynasty, are the product of the times, are forced to hide by martial artists, and are the Qing government authorities. The result of strict supervision of Han folk martial arts!
Let’s talk about "Wing Chun" first. It was originally practiced as a melee fighting technique for assassination with a dagger. It has the appearance of simple and easy to learn , but it has the core of burning jade and stone. "Wing Chun" is more to train assassins quickly. Legend has it that women create boxing, which may be related to women's easier access to the target. All of its moves are only for making a fatal blow, and there is very little protection for itself. As long as the assassination is successful, its own life is not worth mentioning.
The weapons used in the "Wing Chun" we see in movies and TV dramas nowadays look like variants of kitchen knives and hatchets. Households, there are not many "sharps" that can be legally owned! The use of the kitchen knife here is to "stab" rather than "slash." Practice with these substitutes is to avoid supervision. But in the inheritance and continuous integration of generations, the dagger has been forgotten!
It is said that a variant of "Wing Chun" is still circulating in Southeast Asia, and they still use daggers in teaching now! I guess it was passed down by those " Nanming remnants" who escaped from the Qing dynasty (wry smile)!
"Tai Chi", like "Wing Chun", is also trying to hide its true intentions. And what is hidden in it is not only the use of weapons, but also the art of imperial horses!
"Tai Chi" is the same as "Wing Chun" in terms of hiding.The Qing government not only forbids civilians to own weapons, but also forbids private horses as an important war material. A mule is a good ride, not to mention that China originally did not produce war horses! The chance of ordinary farmers having access to horses is almost zero!
Chen Wangting born at the end of the Ming As the county's "wu health", he was originally meant to be a general in the army, so he naturally developed a martial art of archery and archery. His learning is most likely Qi Jiguang Summarized "Troop Training Records"! After entered the Manchu dynasty , Wang Ting Chen should have also wanted to protect the emperor and save the country. Although it is said that he experienced school fraud and was dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty, he believed that he would also focus on the overall situation when foreigners invaded! It’s a pity that a small figure is just a man’s arm as a car, and the north instantly falls. He can only secretly compile the dream of galloping on the battlefield to kill the enemy and serve the country and pass it on to future generations, hoping that one day they can go into battle in the chaos of the world. Complete your unfinished business!
You must be able to ride a horse if you want to ride the battlefield! But how to practice without a horse! In fact, even if they had horses, they would not dare to practice. In the early Qing dynasty, the civilians were all soldiers. Those who practiced martial arts only dared to make gestures, and they couldn't touch the weapons, let alone get on the horse!
How can i imitate riding on flat ground? How to imitate the various movements of sitting on the saddle when there is no horse? " Chen Style Taijiquan " has a clear demonstration-"horse step" plus "crotch walk back arc". As a kind of traditional martial arts, "Chen Style Taijiquan" is the same as other martial arts since ancient times. It uses "horse step". What is "horse step"? It's really just practicing riding! And "the arc behind the crotch" is the necessary action to twist the forward force on the saddle!
Those imperial horse techniques hidden in "Chen Style Taijiquan"!
"Slanting" means archery on horseback,"Baobu" is a double-hammer smash, and " 青龙出水" is a spear-struck infantry. Except for a few infantry moves, the "Chen style Taijiquan" handed down now basically imitates horseback fighting. Like other types of boxing that appeared in the same period, they all concealed the use of weapons in their boxing techniques in order to avoid supervision, simulating empty-handed shooting with long spears, double hammers, and bows.
and "Chen Style Taijiquan" also adds the technical link of horseback riding to the boxing method. People can easily switch their center of gravity by pushing left and right on flat ground, but they are blocked by a saddle immediately. The center of gravity can only be changed by twisting, so the easy "curse of the crotch" on the saddle has become a difficult and important point when practicing on flat ground! In "Tai Chi", the movements required to be "soft and slow", it is more for the practitioner to have more time to extend their imagination, imagine the empty hand as a weapon, imagine the flat ground as a horse, and carefully experience the twisting movement on the saddle. Including the "round crotch" that is naturally formed on the saddle, you must also deliberately practice on flat ground. These "practice points" were later discovered to have an excellent health care effect on the body, and finally achieved the current Tai Chi! For example, the knees cannot exceed the toes. This is the natural state of stepping on the stirrups and the forward force, but when practicing on flat ground, it becomes the best protection for the knees!
In the early passing of the fist, everyone did not dare to say the true meaning of fighting for the battlefield. They were afraid that the children would go out and leak their mouths and cause the disaster, so many key points can only be clicked to the end. However, as the hope of the Han nationality's recovery becomes less and less, the servility of the people is getting stronger and stronger. When people regard the pigtails as fate, the sorrow of leaving their hair and leaving their heads has long gone with the wind, and these are in order to meet the invaders on the battlefield. Blood martial arts, their true essence has not been inherited by the inheritors! The various martial arts genres are also developing and changing their empty-handed combat skills on the ground. The typical example is that "Tai Chi Push Hands" was originally an empty-handed simulation of fighting with weapons. Not being able to "grab and hug" is the biggest difference between weapon strikes and fist fights. Now it has become a wrestling.
With the relaxation of civil supervision in the late Qing Dynasty,The martial arts industry has also ushered in a big explosion. The fist and foot competitions of various schools, various schools, and various arenas eventually replaced the horse and bow riding on the school court.
"Tai Chi" is constantly evolving with "Chen, Yang, Wu, Wu, Sun". Now these movements that imitate immediate fighting are interpreted as close combat techniques. Some can justify themselves, but some It's really far-fetched, but this is also the choice of the times, and it may also be an improvement in retaining inheritance! After all, what everyone is practicing now is to be healthy, not to kill anymore!
Why did so many martial arts appear in the Qing Dynasty, and what did Tai Chi look like in the beginning? I think this has something to do with the broken cultural history. I have the opportunity to talk about these topics with you again.
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