How to interpret the ancients Tai Chi exposition, how to explain Tai Chi

Explanation of Tai Chi (1).Ancient philosophers called it the most primitive chaotic air. It is said that Tai Chi movement differentiates yin and yang, and from yin and yang there are four seasonal changes, and then various natural phenomena appear, which is the origin of all things in the universe.

Yi Zhi Shang": "Yi has Tai Chi Hu, is to give birth to two yi, two yi to give birth to four elephants, and four elephants to give birth to gossip." Kong Yingda Shu:

Tai Chi means that before heaven and earth are divided, the vitality is mixed into one, that is, the beginning and the one. ” 2).Song ** scholars believe that "Tai Chi" is "Li".

Zhu Zi's Language" Volume 75: "Tai Chi is just a pure and pure principle of doing spring and muddy, which contains yin and yang, rigidity and softness, and strange coupling, and everything." Qing Wang Fuzhi's "Zhang Zizheng Meng's Note Taihe":

The Taoist, the general principle of the characters of heaven and earth, is the so-called Tai Chi. ” 3).It is called the heavenly palace, the fairy world.

Three Kingdoms Wei Ruan Ji "Yonghuai" No. 72: "Time and Road? Tai Chi can soar.

Jin Gehong's "Hug Puzi Wu Lost": "The garden is planned to go to the forest, and the pavilion is the first Taiji. "The Seven Signatures of the Clouds" Volume 8:

Tai Chi has the king of Yuanjing to do it, and the gods of the three days are also. ”

Word decomposition Explanation of 太 太 à 太: too long. Extreme, most:

It's too much. Taiping. Tall, big:

Space. Too learned. Very:

Not so good. The highest status or higher seniority: Uncle Tai.

Mrs. Tai (in the old days, she was called someone else's mother). radical : large; Explanation of pole pole (pole) í apex, highest point, end :

Ascend to the throne (the emperor ascends the throne). Get to the top of the ladder. Refers to the north and south ends of the earth or the positive and negative ends of circuits and magnets

Polar (the region within the Polar Circle). Polar circle. North pole.

Cathode. Reach the apex: Extremely.

Look around. The pendulum will swing. The highest,

Tai Chi is a simple world model of the ancient Chinese ancestors, that is, all the elements of the world are simplified into a yin and a yang, and the movement model of one eliminates the other, in which there is yang in yin and yin in yang; Yin disappears and yang grows, and the anode declines and yin grows; On the contrary, the yang disappears and the yin grows, and the cathode declines and the yang is born. In the words of modern dialectical materialism, the world is in constant contradictions, and the changes in contradictions produce the accumulation of quantity, and the accumulation of quantity produces quantitative changes, and when quantitative changes occur, qualitative changes occur, and qualitative changes occur after the accumulation of qualitative changes to a certain amount (quantitative changes). This is the principle of the yin and yang model of the ancients Tai Chi, the prosperity and decline, and the coexistence of yin and yang.

As for the later changes in the five elements, eight trigrams, nine palaces, sixty-four hexagrams, etc., it is a further evolution and development of this model.

As for Tai Chi in Tai Chi is a further development of this model, that is, in the practice of boxing is to simplify the chaotic elements into virtual and real, light and heavy, positive, opening and closing, yin and yang and other elements, the whole body will be divided according to this and be able to experience, there is a virtual reality, a place has a light and heavy, how to change from virtual to real, from real to virtual, light and heavy transformation, so that everywhere to discern, it meets the requirements of Taiji.

Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese philosophical view. "Wuji gives birth to poles, there are poles to give birth to two instruments, and two instruments give birth to four items, and the four items give birth to gossip, and gossip plays all things" The Taiji diagram is a yin and yang fish figure, indicating that all things are born and restrained.

The beginning of chaos. There is yin and yang, called Tai Chi. That is, the poles of so. In plain detail. Heaven and earth are mutually reinforcing. One positive and one negative. The simplest explanation.

"Wuji gives birth to Taiji, Taiji gives birth to Liangyi" Wuji is nothing, Liangyi is Yin and Yang are there, Taiji is between existence and non-existence, it is a critical state, adding a trace is there, and subtracting a millimeter is nothing. Tai Chi can be said to be the largest is the meaning of "too", which is greater than the big because it contains all the existence and non-existence; Tai Chi can also be said to be the smallest is the meaning of "extreme", the limit, because it is nothing but a point between existence and non-existence.

Some people say that Tai Chi has a fundamental and ultimate meaning, but I don't dare to agree. It's like Taijiquan, it's not the ultimate fist, and I don't think the ancestor of Taijiquan has been arrogant to this extent. Tai Chi exercises a critical state between movement and stillness, when the whole body is relaxed, the mind is highly concentrated, and there is a sense of movement at any time, and when the body is moving, the mind is full of reservations, and there is a sense of stillness at any time.

The concept of Tai Chi has influenced Chinese cultural schools such as Confucianism and Taoism. "Yi Wei Qianchise" and "Liezi" talk about the five stages of Taiyi, Taishi, Taichu, Taisu, and Taiji Universe. Song Ru Zhou Dunyi said at the beginning of "Taiji Diagram":

Infinite and Tai Chi. This injects the word Wuji mentioned in Lao Tzu into the meaning of science. This also links the concept of Wuji with Tai Chi.

The "Yizong Jinjian" compiled by the Tai Hospital during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty adopted a five-stage theory (Nie Wentao talks about "Zhou Yi"): Wuji is too void and reasonable, and Taiji is too void and reasonable. Yin and yang are born by pneumatic stillness, and yin and yang are divided into heaven and earth.

There is no cosmic qi form, there is already a cosmic form of qi. From the form of the study of qi is called yin and yang, that is, the qi concept is called Tai Chi. ”

The "Dictionaries" also says: "Two rituals give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip." It means that all things and phenomena in the vast universe contain yin and yang, as well as the two sides of the surface and the inside.

However, they are both opposed to each other and dependent on each other, which is the general law of the material world, the program and origin of many things, and the root cause of the emergence and destruction of things.

The way of heaven and earth, with yin and yang, creates all things. Heaven and earth, the sun and the moon, thunder and lightning, wind and rain, the four o'clock, the day before and the afternoon, as well as the male and female, rigid and soft, dynamic and static, and conspicuous, everything is indistinguishable from yin and yang. The principle of life is to nourish a hundred bones with yin and yang.

The meridians, flesh and bones, abdomen and back, five internal organs, six internal organs, and even seven losses and eight benefits, all within one body, are all in line with the principle of yin and yang. Too meaningful; There is a limit to the meaning, that is, as for the limit, there is no match. It includes not only the ultimate principle, but also the maximum and small limit of time and space.

It can be greater than any quantity and cannot exceed the circumference and space, or it can be less than any quantity without being equal to zero or nothing, the above is the meaning of the word Tai Chi.

As a national intangible cultural heritage, Tai Chi has a long history of development in China. The word "Tai Chi" originates from the "Zhou Yi Ji Ci", which is a philosophical term in the dialectics of simple materialism in ancient China, which contains the philosophical ideas of Confucianism and Taoism in ancient China.

Tai Chi culture is rooted in traditional Chinese culture, and is closely related to classical Chinese philosophy, religion, traditional health preservation, and classical Chinese aesthetics in traditional culture. Taijiquan is based on the classics of traditional Chinese philosophy, medicine, martial arts, etc., such as the Book of Changes, the Yellow Emperor's Neijing, the Huang Ting Jing, and the New Book of Ji Xiao, and in the process of its long-term development, it has absorbed the reasonable content of Taoism, Confucianism and other cultures, so Taijiquan is called the "quintessence of the country". Taijiquan fully absorbs the essence of traditional health preservation techniques and melts into the boxing frame, realizing the longing for disease and strengthening the body and prolonging life.

Tai Chi requires symmetry and balance, there must be upper and lower, there must be before and after, open and close, close and open, rigid and soft, yin and yang are combined; It also fits perfectly with the viewpoint of classical Chinese aesthetics.

Tai Chi is a simple philosophical theory in ancient China that uses yin and yang to represent the contradiction and unity of things, arising and developing.

Tai Chi culture is divided into broad and narrow senses.

Tai Chi culture in a broad sense: Due to the extensiveness of Tai Chi, Tai Chi genes can penetrate into various cultural fields and various things, and we can feel that Tai Chi is omnipresent, ubiquitous and omnipotent; However, this does not mean that everything can be called Tai Chi, each thing has its own essence, characteristics and manifestations, and there are essential differences between them. What we usually call Tai Chi culture refers to the different manifestations of Tai Chi in various things, so as long as it is a culture that shows the characteristics, characteristics, and characteristics of Tai Chi in various forms, it is the category of Tai Chi culture.

Tai Chi culture in a narrow sense: Strictly speaking, only a culture that fully displays the true face of Tai Chi by expressing the essence, nature, essence, attributes, form, function, laws and principles of Tai Chi itself can be a real Tai Chi culture.

Tai Chi generally refers to the most primitive state of order in the universe, which appeared after the chaotic period (Wuji) when yin and yang were not separated, and then formed the origin of all things (the universe).

Tai Chi is an important concept and category in the history of Chinese culture, and as far as the literature seen so far, it was first seen in the Zhuangzi: "The Great Dao is above Tai Chi but not high; below the six poles and not deep; congenital but not long; Older than antiquity, but not old". Later seen in "Yi Chuan":

It is easy to have Tai Chi, which is to give birth to two instruments. Two rituals give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip. After Zhuangzi, later generations gradually deduced the mature concept of Tai Chi according to the discussion of "Tai Chi" in the "Zhou Yi Zhi Ci", and really absorbed the essence of Zhuangzi's chaotic philosophy.

Like Zhuangzi's chaotic philosophy, the Tai Chi concept, which looks at the phenomena and essence of all things in a trance, and this way of thinking itself, actually contains a sober and wise philosophy, and its ultimate purpose is to hope that human activities will conform to the Tao and the laws of nature, not be confined by external objects, "do nothing but do nothing", and finally reach a spiritual realm of tranquility and harmony that is all-encompassing.