In daily life, we can often see many people playing Tai Chi in parks and squares. Tai Chi can not only prolong life, but also strengthen health. Then there are ten taboos in practicing Tai Chi, and precautions for children to practice Tai Chi. Ten taboos in practicing Tai Chi
Don’t keep the spirit away from the body. Tai Chi is a three-part form and seven-part intention, and the most skill lies in the spirit. Moves are skills, gods are power. If there are moves, there are no moves, but moves are powerless. Only moves with magical powers are spiritual and powerful. Divine power penetrates the heart, divine power is unpredictable, and divine light is as majestic as a sharp weapon. When practicing Tai Chi, you must achieve the coordination of your hands, eyes, and body, and your spirit, energy, and will.
Avoid being loose and weak. Looseness is the door of Tai Chi and the first level for Tai Chi practitioners to get started. Loosening loosens the joints, joints and vertebrae, expands the muscles, tendons and skin, and allows the Qi to flow. Blood reaches the tip. It’s never loose, sloppy, or slack. Avoid practicing stiffly. Tai Chi is all about intention and not force. It is softness that hides strength. Looseness is the door to Tai Chi. Stiffness is the obstacle to Tai Chi. Using Qi to stagnate Qi and using force to hurt Qi are taboos in Tai Chi.
Avoid making sudden attacks. The martial arts rules of Tai Chi are: don’t hit or push back, accept the situation, use force to transform force, use four ounces to lift a thousand catties. Not only is it impossible to win with an assault move, but it is easy for both parties to lose. Avoid frivolous and strange dances. If the body is heavy, the Qi will be heavy, and if the body is light, the Qi will be dry. Smoothness, stability, calmness, and solidity are the basic requirements of Tai Chi. ", elbow, lean" is the boxing method of Tai Chi, and "circle, rotation" is the trajectory of Tai Chi movement. If it is a boxing, it will hit. There is no boxing that does not hit people. Tai Chi is a kind of boxing with "smart power". It is frivolous, fancy, beautiful, but useless, and has no benefit in maintaining health.
Don’t go from house to house. Tai Chi is an internal martial art, and the focus is on both internal and external cultivation. If you practice it with external martial arts moves, it will be difficult to enter the house. Avoid practicing Zaquan at the same time. Practicing Tai Chi at the same time as other Zajia Quan will easily cause the Qi and blood in the body to be scattered, making it difficult to practice the Zhoutian. Don't be too quick to achieve success. Gong can not be obtained by learning alone, but by practicing. Only by practicing to the point of fire can success come naturally. There is no through train, and haste leads to failure.
Don’t go overboard in seeking strength. The key to practicing Tai Chi is to build a good bridge and adjust your breath well. Only by attacking with slow fire can the body fluids fill the pool and be nourished by the elixir. If the mouth is not loose, the teeth are trismused, and the bridge is too tight, the mouth will be dry and bitter, and the essence and energy will be lost.
Be careful of distracting your mind and talking too much. The core of practicing Tai Chi is to purify your mind, regulate your breath, produce fluids and refine elixirs. Distracting thoughts in the mind are a major obstacle to practicing boxing well and must be eliminated. Secondly, as the saying goes, "Too much farting will lead to no illness, and too much talking will lead to no life." Boxing practitioners talk while practicing, which is the main culprit of wasting energy and energy, and must be strictly controlled. Precautions for children to practice Tai Chi
Environmental requirements, it is best to take children to practice Tai Chi in a natural environment with flowers, plants and trees. Such an environment has fresh air and less noise, which is conducive to children's concentration.
There are many posture requirements for Tai Chi, but for young children, there are five main points to pay attention to.
1. The head needs to be kept naturally and upright, not tilted, and should be relaxed and flexible, so that the spirit will be refreshed. Don't open your eyes angrily, don't frown your eyebrows, and keep your gaze level. The mouth should be closed rather than open, do not clench your teeth forcefully, place your tongue against the roof of your mouth, and breathe naturally through your nose.
2. The hands should not be stiff and tight. The fingers should be stretched naturally. When making a fist, you should not use force. It needs to be loose and soft. Just curl the little finger, ring finger, middle finger, and index finger in order so that the fingertips are in contact with the palm of the hand. When doing this, just press the tip of your thumb on the middle section of your index finger and middle finger. The so-called Tai Chi boxing is hollow boxing, this is what it means.
3. Keep your chest and back straight. The chest is slightly inward, just like a cat trying to curl up its body when catching a mouse. Before we jump, the three joints of the hip, knee, and foot must flex. If this is not the case, the actions of throwing out and jumping cannot be realized. The correct back-pulling posture is to consciously release the tension in the shoulder and back muscles. Mentally think that there is about a palm-sized skin around the big cone, which can be attached to the close-fitting clothes. The child may not know this place, and the adult should point it out to him.
4. When practicing boxing, you should support your waist. There is a saying in the song: "How can the body be without the top of the waist?"
For example, the cloud hand, knee-crouching step, oblique flying position, sea needle, high-exploring horse, etc., all require the waist to be straight, just like a compass, the needle moves without the needle axis leaving the original position. You can't have a cat-like waist. Cat-waist means lowering your head and shrugging your buttocks. Your waist is not straight and you have lost your center of gravity. This can easily cause difficulty breathing.
5. Tai Chi’s requirements for the legs are: first, they must be able to distinguish between virtual and real; second, their movements must be nimble and flexible; third, they must be balanced and stable. For children, as long as the movements are not awkward, they will naturally become smooth and flowing over time.
Breathing requirements, breathing is an important part of Tai Chi. Regarding breathing during Tai Chi, there are basically two methods, one is natural breathing, and the other is boxing breathing. Natural breathing means not paying too much attention to the coordination of breathing, boxing frames, and movements. On the basis of good boxing movements, breathing should be natural and comfortable. Young children should breathe in this way.