Xinyi Hunyuan Tai Chi

What is Xinyi Hunyuan Tai Chi like? Few people understand this kind of Tai Chi. Therefore, when choosing this kind of Tai Chi, you should be careful not to perform it casually. You should first understand it. Only when you choose it, you will know how it can help the human body. Tai Chi is a good choice for the body. This kind of exercise will not cause any harm to the human body.

Xinyi Hunyuan Tai Chi is very effective in improving human physical fitness and enhancing human immunity, so you can choose it with confidence. The following is a detailed introduction to this Tai Chi.

Xinyi Hunyuan Tai Chi:

1. Wuji Qishi (Chest Facing South)

Action breakdown

1. Left foot sideways: Relax your whole body, stand with your left foot sideways as wide as your shoulders, bend your knees and sit on your hips, with your crotch rounded and facing upwards.

2. Relax your shoulders and lower your elbows: Let your hands and arms hang naturally, with your palms facing inwards.

3. Extend both hands in front of you: Extend both hands in front of you, with your wrists as wide and high as your shoulders (Figure 2).

4. Stroke and press with both hands: sink both hands, stroke and press to the root of the left thigh, turn the body slightly to the right with the waist belt, sit back slightly, and rotate the right foot outward about 15 degrees.

Practice points

1. In this posture, you should relax your whole body and keep your head straight and neck upright from beginning to end.

2. When extending forward, the gate of life opens slightly backwards, shoulders relax and sink, and the whole body extends outwards.

3. When the hands are level with the shoulders, the elbows should be slightly dropped; when stroking and pressing downwards, slowly retract your eyes and lead your hands with your mind, embodying the three-joint strength of "leading by the tip, following by the middle, and urging by the root joint".

4. When relaxing, you should demonstrate the momentum of relaxation and accumulation of energy: "When the mind is raised, the whole body is relaxed; when the mind is relaxed, the whole body is relaxed." The whole starting posture should be continuous and smooth, and completed in one go.

Meaning of martial arts

The fighting meaning of this style is mainly the Peng Jin and Lu An Jin. When the opponent's body is rushing towards me, I can use the rising force or the pulling and pressing force to neutralize the force.

2. Golden Eagle Pounding the Mortar (Chest Facing South)

Action breakdown

1. Stroke right with both hands: Continuing from the previous posture, first relax both hands, then stroke both hands to the right in an upward clockwise arc to the front of the right breast. As both hands stroke to the right, the left foot is brought to the inside of the right foot.

2. Separate hands and feet: Move both hands back to the right, and at the same time, shovel one step toward the southeast along the ground with the inner side of the left heel in the opposite direction of the line of both hands.

3. Left hand back-hook: The left hand moves in a clockwise downward arc and outwards, and the left foot swings outwards about 45 degrees, and the right hand relaxes.

4. Right cannonball: move your body weight forward, then hook your right hand from bottom to top, at the same time, move your right arm half a step forward, and place your left hand on the inside of your right forearm.

5. Vajra Pounding Mortar: The left hand falls in front of Dantian, the right fist moves in a clockwise circle and closes in the palm of the left hand, and the right foot closes beside the left foot as the fist falls.

Practice points

1. Right stroking and separating hands and feet are continuous movements. When separating your hands and feet, you should stand upright, relax your waist and tighten your hips.

2. The left hand swings back to the left foot, the right step with the right rocket and the Vajra pounding posture should be done in one go, and the right fist should form a clockwise vertical circle.

3. After completing the Vajra Pestle posture, you should sink your Qi into your Dantian and relax your whole body.

Meaning of martial arts

Pulling both hands back is to use the pulling force to dissolve the opponent's force, and the sky cannon is to use the lower hook to break the opponent's momentum and moves.

3. Lazy Tie-up Clothes (Chest Facing South)

Action breakdown

1. Open your hands downward: Continuing from the previous posture, relax your hands, lower your body slightly, and spread your hands out to the sides in an arc.

2. Open your hands outward: Move your hands downward in an arc and then bring them together in front of your chest with your palms facing inward. Then relax them in front of your left shoulder, turn your palms outward, and rotate your hands clockwise to the lower left and upper right arcs to open them outward.

3. Close the top and open the bottom: Move the left hand in an upward arc clockwise and the right hand in a downward arc clockwise. After the right foot is relaxed, shovel with the inner side of the heel touching the ground.

4. Relax the left and open the right: Relax the right hand, with the palm slanting forward and downward in an arc and opening horizontally to the right. At the same time, the left hand falls on the lower abdomen, slightly to the left below the navel, to form an open posture.

Practice points

1. Before spreading your hands, you must first relax your waist and spine, and sink your Qi into your Dantian.

2. Before opening both hands outwards, the strength should be extended in all directions, and the joints of chest, shoulder, wrist and elbow should be smooth.

3. When your hands are opened up, the chest is open and the back is closed. When your hands are closed down, the back is open and the chest is closed. This opening and closing reflects the opening and closing and folding of the chest and abdomen. What you need to pay attention to here is that the opening and closing should not turn into sticking out the chest and angling the back.

4. When you are in the fixed posture, you should have a sense of standing upright, your body should be straight and not tilted, your Qi should sink into your Dantian, and your mind should be focused on your fingertips.

Meaning of martial arts

This posture uses the power of both hands to neutralize the enemy, and the power of the right shoulder and elbow to lean to the right. It is a method of pulling to the left to neutralize the enemy and then releasing the opponent.

4. Six seals and four closures (chest facing south and slightly west)

Action breakdown

1. Right hand grab and squeeze: Continuing from the previous posture, the right hand moves in a downward arc toward the left foot, shifting the body weight to the left, then palms facing inward, and push both hands to the right.

2. Lower your hands to both sides and move them slightly upwards.

3. Double-closed oblique press: Put both hands together in front of the left shoulder, palms facing up, then turn both palms over and press obliquely downward to the right front. As the hands press, the left foot is brought to the inside of the right foot, with the weight on the right foot.

Practice points

1. When doing stroking with the right hand, the whole body should be relaxed and the whole movement should be done in one go.

2. Changes in body weight should be coordinated with the movements of your hands and feet.

3. When the backs of your hands are lowered, the Qi should be relaxed and sunk to Dantian, and the momentum should be expanded immensely.

4. When pressing down with both hands diagonally, the right hip will lean outward slightly.

Meaning of martial arts

The right-hand grab and pull and the two-hand right push are a combined action of one transformation and one release, while the double-combination and diagonal downward pressing is a posture released by the hands and buttocks together, using the squeezing and pressing force released to the right side.

5. Single Whip (Chest Facing South)

Action breakdown

1. Open and close your hands: Continuing from the previous posture, relax your hands. Then use the palms of your hands as if stroking a Tai Chi ball. First open your hands, then close your hands. When opening and closing, your palms should always be facing the direction of the Tai Chi ball. Start from Dantian and close at Dantian.

2. Open the right hook: pinch the three fingers of the right hand together, and extend them to the right along the line between Neiguan and Zhongchong of the left hand.

3. Left sideways: First, lift the left foot and then take a step to the left. Then, shift the body weight to the left and at the same time, pull the left hand to the left, with the left palm facing up, and the right hook hand remains unchanged (Figure 18).

4. Close and open the left hand: Close the left hand with the right hand, and move the body weight to the right at the same time. Move the left hand to the right side of the Dantian, that is, move in a counterclockwise outer arc to close to the inside of the right hook hand, and then turn the left palm outward and move in a counterclockwise flat circle trajectory to the left (Figure 19).

Practice points

1. Opening and closing of both hands and right hook and opening to the right are one continuous action, and left horizontal opening and closing of left hand are one continuous action. The entire combination of movements should be performed smoothly and without delay.

2. Before the fixed posture, the left palm opens outwards from the horizontal palm to the vertical palm, and the transition in the middle should be natural and smooth.

Meaning of martial arts

1. Opening and closing both hands uses the two opposite forces of opening and closing to grab the opponent's wrist.

2. The operation of the left hand is to use the left hand to close the right to lead the opponent, and then open the left to push to the left to release the opponent.

6. White Crane Spreads Wings (Chest Facing East)

Action breakdown

1. Relax your hands: Relax your hands in front of your dantian and sink your body slightly.

2. Stroke your hands to the right: Move your hands along a clockwise vertical circle to the body.

3. Step forward and close hands: Keep moving upward, swing the left hand outward, and move the right hand in a downward arc to lead the right step forward half a step, while the left hand closes in front of the right shoulder.

4. Follow the steps and open the hands: Keep moving upwards, with the left hand moving in an upward arc clockwise, and the right hand moving in a downward arc clockwise, and with the middle finger of the right hand leading the big toe of the left foot, follow the steps and open diagonally to the upper right.

Practice points

1. This posture should be performed in one go from beginning to end without any interruption. Each junction should be smoothly transitioned without any dead angles.

2. When you take a right step, you should step toward the southeast, that is, at a 45-degree angle to your left foot. When you take a left step, use your right middle finger to lead the big toe of your left foot.

Meaning of martial arts

Using both hands to stroke forward is to use the stroking force to dissolve the opponent's force, and stepping forward and joining hands is a preparatory posture for moving forward and preparing to strike with the shoulder.

Through the above introduction, we have a good understanding of Xinyi Hunyuan Tai Chi, so when choosing this kind of Tai Chi, we can feel free to proceed. However, it should be noted that when choosing this kind of Tai Chi, it is very important to understand it, so that it will be beneficial to the healthy development of the human body when using it.