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Encyclopedia > List of Tai Chi Chuan forms

List of Tai Chi Chuan forms, postures, movements, or positions in order of number of forms: Tai chi chuan (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Hanyu Pinyin: tàijíquán; Wade-Giles: tai4 chi2 chüan2) is an internal Chinese martial art often practiced with the aim of promoting health and longevity. ...


Hand forms

  • 4 - Chen 4 Step is a subset of Chen Old Frame One (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
  • 8 - Yang Standardized
  • 8 - Chen Standardized
  • 9 - Chen Old Frame (Master Liu Yong)
  • 10 - Yang
  • 12 - Yang
  • 13 - Chen (aka Five Element Chen) subset of either Old Frame One or Small Frame (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
  • 13 - Dong Yue (East Mountain) Combined
  • 13 - Wudang (Zhang SanFeng - Wudang Nei Jia Quan) - Shi San Shi
  • 16 - Yang Standardized
  • 16 - Chen Standardized
  • 16 - Actually Chen 4 Step (see above) popularly repeated in four directions of the compass (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
  • 18 - Chen (Grandmaster Chen Zheng Lei)
  • 18 - Wudang (Zhang SanFeng - simplified new form)
  • 19 - Chen (Grandmaster Chen Xiao Wang)
  • 20 - 5 Section Taijiquan (Yang Simplified)
  • 20 - 5 Section Chen Taijiquan (Chen Simplified)
  • 24 - Yang ('Simplified', 'Beijing', 'New Style') Standardized
  • 24 - Chen Shi (Chen style) Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan (24 Form by Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang)
  • 24 - Zhao Bao
  • 28 - Wudang Taiji
  • 32 - Combined Form
  • 32 - Chen Standardized "Fist" (New Frame)
  • 34 - Wudang short
  • 35 - Sun Standardized Short
  • 36 - Chen Standardized (New Frame)
  • 36 - Fu style short form tai chi ch'uan
  • 37 - Yang (Zheng, Cheng Man-ch'ing) Short
  • 38 - Chen (Grandmaster Chen Xiao Wang)
  • 39 - Chen (Old frame 39)
  • 39 - Chen (New frame 39)
  • 40 - Yang competition
  • 40 - Sun Family Modern Short Form
  • 42 - Chen (Old form cannon fist)
  • 42 - Combined Style Competition Form
  • 42 - Sun Traditional Short
  • 43 - Yang (Jiang Yu Kun)
  • 43 - Zhao Bao
  • 46 - Yang Competition
  • 46 - Wu competition
  • 48 - Combined forms (This form, established in 1976, combined techniques from Chen, Yang, Wu, and Sun forms, and was used as a Competition Form until it was replaced by the 42 Form Competition Form.)
  • 48 - Chen Shi (Chen style) Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan (48 Form by Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang)
  • 49 - Yang Demo/Family competition
  • 49 - Wu (Hao) short form
  • 50 - Li short form
  • 53 - Fu style advanced tai chi
  • 54 - Wu family competition
  • 56 - Chen Competition
  • 56 - Zhao Bao
  • 64 - Yang (Kuang Ping style)
  • 66 - Combined Standardized (Lost, original content unknown)
  • 67 - 67 movements Combined Tai-Chi Chuan form
  • 67 - Fu style tai chi lightning palm
  • 72 - Chen (New Form Cannon Fist)
  • 72 - Huang Sheng Shyan Form
  • 73 - Sun Competition
  • 74 - Chen (Old Frame, First Routine, Lao Jia Yi Lu)
  • 81 - Wu (Hao) Old Form
  • 83 - Chen New Form (Chen Village)
  • 88 - Yang Standardized (which appears to differ slightly from traditional forms of similar length)
  • 96 - Wu (Hao) long form
  • 97/98 - Sun Traditional Long
  • 103 - Yang long form (The moves can also add up to 85, 88, 108 or 150 depending on how they are counted.)
  • 105 - Fu style Tai Chi Ch'uan
  • 108 - Taoist Tai Chi form
  • 108 - Chen
  • 108 - Wu Chien-ch'uan style long
  • 119 - Wudang long
  • 120 - Tchoung_Ta-chen - Annotated Form
  • 140 - Li form
  • 229 - Tchoung_Ta-chen - Long Form

There are also many variations of qigong (ch'i kung) forms associated with different schools. // Forms from the 5 Section Taijiquan program have been adopted into curriculums of Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan; Tai Chi) schools around the world. ... // Forms from the 5 Section Taijiquan program have been adopted into curriculums of Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan; Tai Chi) schools around the world. ... 24 Form (Simplified Form) Tai Chi Chuan The Chinese Sports Committee brought together four Tai Chi experts who truncated the Yang family hand form to 24 postures in 1956. ... // Overview Wudang Tai Chi Chuan 武當太極拳 is a name given to a system of Tai Chi Chuan that was developed by a Hong Kong 香港 based Tai Chi Chuan master known as Cheng Tinhung 鄭天熊. Cheng Tinhung had never claimed to be teaching a particular school of Tai Chi Chuan, but its close... Cheng Man-ching (WG) or Zhèng MànqÄ«ng (py) 鄭曼青 [(1902-1975)] was born in Yongjia (present-day Wenzhou), Zhejiang Province (his birthday was on the 28th year of the Guangxu emperors reign, 6th month, 25th day, which corresponds to July 29, 1902). ... 42 Form (Competition Form) Tai Chi Chuan This Tai Chi Chuan Combined set routine incorporates movements drawn from the Yang, Wu, Chen, and Sun styles of traditional Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan ) the “Supreme Ultimate Fist” 1 Commencing Form N 起式 2 Grasp Peacocks Tail... Tai Chi Chuan master, lived in 1913-1980. ... The Lee style of Tai Chi Chuan is practised mainly in the UK and continental Europe. ... The 67 movements Combined Tai-Chi Chuan form was created in 1950 during a series of meetings of several contemporary Tai Chi masters with the goal to create standardized forms for China. ... Huang Sheng-Shyan, 黃性賢, Huang Hsing-hsien (WG) or Huáng Xìngxián (py) was born in 1910 in Minhou County of the Fujian province in Mainland China. ... Lao Jia Yi Lu Lao Jia Yi Lu is old frame (or first routine) of the old school of the Chen family style with focus on silk reeling. ... The solo form routine sequence, usually called the hand form or just the form in English and chüan in Mandarin: 拳 (in Wade-Giles romanization: chüan2, in the pinyin system: quán), is the best known manifestation of Tai Chi training for the general public. ... Taoist Tai Chi is a form of Tai Chi Chuan developed by Moy Lin-shin, who started teaching in Toronto, Canada after he moved there in 1970. ... // Tai Chi forms Wu Chien-chuan in the Wu styles version of the posture known as Cloud Hands 雲手 The different slow motion solo form training sequences of Tai Chi Chuan are the best known manifestation of Tai Chi for the general public. ... // Overview Wudang Tai Chi Chuan 武當太極拳 is a name given to a system of Tai Chi Chuan that was developed by a Hong Kong 香港 based Tai Chi Chuan master known as Cheng Tinhung 鄭天熊. Cheng Tinhung had never claimed to be teaching a particular school of Tai Chi Chuan, but its close... Tchoung Tai Chi Chuan: Dual method of the Old Form of Yang Style Tai-chi chuan. ... The Lee style of Tai Chi Chuan is practised mainly in the UK and continental Europe. ... Tchoung Tai Chi Chuan: Dual method of the Old Form of Yang Style Tai-chi chuan. ... For the artist, see Qigong (artist). ...


Weapon forms

  • 13 - Dong Yue (East Mountain) Combined Sword
  • 16 - Yang Standardized Sword
  • 16 - Yang/Combined Standardized Spear
  • 13 - Yang Broadsword (Dao)
  • 18 - Chen 'Health' Standardized Sword
  • 23 - Chen Broadsword
  • 27 - 5 Section solo Taijijian
  • 32 - Yang/Combined Sword
  • 36 - Chen Shi (Chen Style) Xinyi Hun Yuan broadsword
  • 40 - Chen Broadsword
  • 48 - Chen Shi (Chen Style) Xinyi Hun Yuan sword
  • 49 - Chen Sword
  • 54 - Yang Sword
  • 56 - Fu style tai chi seven star sword
  • 62 - Chen Single Sword
  • 64 - 5 Section 2 person Taijijian
  • 92 - Wudang Single Sword

// Forms from the 5 Section Taijiquan program have been adopted into curriculums of Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan; Tai Chi) schools around the world. ... // Forms from the 5 Section Taijiquan program have been adopted into curriculums of Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan; Tai Chi) schools around the world. ...

See also

  • Tchoung style
  • 5 Section Taijiquan (五段太極拳)

  Results from FactBites:
 
Tai Chi Chuan - MartialTalk Online Martial Arts Encyclopedia Project (3501 words)
T'ai Chi Ch'uan is considered a soft style martial art, an art applied with as complete a relaxation or "softness" in the musculature as possible, to distinguish its theory and application from that of the hard martial art styles which use a degree of tension in the muscles.
T'ai Chi Ch'uan as physical training is characterized by its requirement for the use of leverage through the joints based on coordination in relaxation rather than muscular tension in order to neutralize or initiate physical attacks.
T'ai Chi Ch'uan's theories and practice are therefore believed by some schools to have been formulated by the Taoist monk Chang San-feng in the 12th century, a time frame fitting well with when the principles of the Neo-Confucian school were making themselves felt in Chinese intellectual life.
Tai Chi Chuan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3679 words)
T'ai Chi Ch'üan is considered a soft style martial art, an art applied with as complete a relaxation or "softness" in the musculature as possible, to distinguish its theory and application from that of the hard martial art styles which use a degree of tension in the muscles.
T'ai Chi Ch'üan as physical training is characterized by its requirement for the use of leverage through the joints based on coordination in relaxation rather than muscular tension in order to neutralize or initiate physical attacks.
T'ai Chi Ch'üan's theories and practice are therefore believed by some schools to have been formulated by the Taoist monk Chang San-feng in the 12th century, a time frame fitting well with when the principles of the Neo-Confucian school were making themselves felt in Chinese intellectual life.
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