What's the difference between Chen Tai Ji Chuan and Tai Ji Chuan in Tai Ji Chuan?

1, different styles and characteristics

Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan boxing stand stretches gracefully, with tall and straight posture, smooth movements, simple and honest, and combines rigidity and softness, just like boating in the lake, light and calm.

Chen and Tai Ji Chuan's theory of Yin and Yang, the theory of opening and closing of motion and static motion, and the method of combining rigidity with softness are all techniques of mutual practice. Boxing moves are spiral forward and backward, which is called silk-winding strength.

2. Different sources

The birthplace of Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan is the recovery of Hebei Yongnian; Chen Taiji is from Chenjiagou, wen county, Henan.

3. Gloves are different:

According to Yang Tai's biography, there are three ways of traditional gloves: big rack, long fist, middle rack and small rack (also called using rack and quick rack).

Chen Tai Ji Chuan is a Tai Ji Chuan handed down from the Chen Dynasty, with seven sets. For a set of long fists, thirteen imposing manners, two, three, four, five sets, and one set of cannon hammers, it was spread to Chen Changxing, Chen Youben, Chen Taiji, and Chen XIV, and Bo made a promise to specialize in thirteen-potential helmets and two sets of cannon hammers.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Biography of Chen Taiji

Baidu Encyclopedia-Biography of Yang Tai