Qigong and Tai Ji Chuan have great benefits to physical and mental health. Long-term exercise has unexpected effects, which can not only strengthen the body but also prolong life. Qigong and Tai Ji Chuan are the same in many aspects, but they also have many differences.
As the name implies, Tai Ji Chuan belongs to one of the martial arts. Some people call it? Flexible martial arts? . The specific content of Tai Ji Chuan's movement includes basic skills, pushing hands, Sanshou and equipment routines besides boxing routines. As the content of martial arts, its main function lies in attack and defense.
The similarities between Tai Ji Chuan and Qigong are mainly:
1, with the development of society, Tai Ji Chuan, as one of the martial arts schools, has gradually reduced the role of fighting and attacking in social life, but has highlighted the fitness value and traditional art performance value of Tai Ji Chuan's exercise. Tai Ji Chuan's famous artists have it in the Song of the Thirteen Powers? What's the purpose of pushing in detail, to prolong life and not to be old? The point of view. Therefore, in terms of Tai Ji Chuan's fitness function, it has something in common with Qigong.
2. As far as the emergence of Tai Ji Chuan is concerned, it not only comprehensively absorbed the advantages of many martial arts boxing methods, but also absorbed the essence of ancient health-preserving techniques such as guidance and vomiting, making some essentials and methods of Qigong exercise an important part of Tai Ji Chuan's basic skills.
3. According to the requirements of Qigong exercise, Tai Ji Chuan's exercise also pays attention to the guidance of ideas, requiring calmness and relaxation, as well as body adjustment, pranayama and pranayama. From this perspective, Tai Ji Chuan can also be listed as one of Qigong exercises.
4. Theoretically speaking, they all use China's ancient theory of Yin and Yang as a guide, and use the theory of meridians of traditional Chinese medicine to explain the phenomena in their respective exercises.
Differences between Tai Ji Chuan and Qigong
Although Qigong has many similarities with Tai Ji Chuan, they are different in many aspects because of their different ultimate goals of formation and development.
1, in terms of formation and development, Tai Ji Chuan was born for the need of fighting and winning on the battlefield, and gradually developed in the constant practice of fighting and attacking; Qigong is mainly formed and developed in medical practice to meet the needs of fitness and health preservation.
2. As far as the methods and essentials of exercise are concerned, Qigong mainly achieves the goal of fitness through physical relaxation and mental relaxation, and mental adjustment is its core content; Tai Ji Chuan started with body movements, after? From loose to soft, from soft to hard? And exercise a kind of flexible, continuous and penetrating winding strength.
3, from their ultimate purpose and function, Tai Ji Chuan is through? Lead the spirit with meaning, and attract with spirit? Constant practice will eventually achieve the perfect combination of meaning, qi and strength, so as to achieve the goal of meaning to qi and qi to force in the attack and defense; The ultimate goal of qigong is medical function, which is to strengthen the body and prolong life after qigong practice.
In a word, Qigong is similar to Tai Ji Chuan but not exactly the same. Qigong has become an important part of Tai Ji Chuan's basic skill practice, and some methods and essentials of Tai Ji Chuan have also become the reference for people in Qigong field to create Taiji Qigong.
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