Description
Taijiquan is the quintessence of China and a wonderful flower in the martial
garden. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Chen
Wangting, the ninth emperor of Chen family in Chenjiagou, Wenxian County, Henan
Province, created Taijiquan on the basis of family boxing, according to the principle
of Yin and Yang of Taiji, drawing on the knowledge of other martial arts, integrating
traditional Chinese medicine meridian theory and guiding vomiting technique into
one. For more than 300 years, Tai chi has been a secret of the Chen family in a corner
of Chenjiagou, developed into Chen, Yang, Wu, He, Wu, Sun and many other schools,
spread over 150 countries and regions, hundreds of millions of practitioners, becoming
the most popular fi tness activity in the 21st century. In 2006, Tai Chi was included in
the fi rst batch of China’s national intangible cultural heritage list. In December 2020,
Taijiquan was included in the representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of
mankind. Taijiquan, which originated in Chenjiagou, has become the common wealth
of all mankind.
The report of the Party’s 20th National Congress put forward specifi c requirements
for national fi tness and sports work, emphasizing that it is necessary to “extensively
carry out national fitness activities, strengthen youth sports work, promote the
comprehensive development of mass sports and competitive sports, and accelerate the
construction of sports power.” In order to fully promote Taijiquan, a fi tness sport that
combines strength and softness and is suitable for all ages, and promote the healthy
physical and mental development of young people, Wenxian Martial Arts Association
specially choreogizes children’s tai chi exercises according to the characteristics of
children’s bone development. The routine is simple and easy to learn, the movement is
smooth and bright, and the regular practice can not only strengthen the body, but also
the fi st can understand the reason, by the reason to cultivate virtue, is the majority of
children to accept the traditional culture enlightenment and martial arts and a good
carrier of virtue education.
Writing to carry the Tao, martial arts to shake the soul, practicing Tai Chi to
harmonize body and mind. Wish that this set of children’s Tai chi exercises can send
the happiness of fi tness to the majority of children, so that they can feel the broad and
profound Chinese traditional martial arts, and also cultivate more teenagers for our era
,in terms of physical strength, both civil and martial arts and self-improvement.
