What is Tai Chi?

Release time:2023-11-17

Source: reticulation

When mentioning Tai Chi, people will think of Bagua and the Tai Chi Yin Yang Ball will come to their mind, but most people still have a vague concept of Tai Chi. Today I share with you what I recognize as Tai Chi!

Zhouyi . Department of the Rhetoric" records a mention: "Yi has Taiji, is born two yi". This is an early documentation of the term "Tai Chi". Taiji represents the universe and nature. Why is Tai Chi called Tai Chi? Taiji's "Tai" is a big character with a little bit inside, which implies two meanings, a "big" and a "small". So how big is big and how small is small? Lu Shi Chun Qiu (The Spring and Autumn Annals of Lu Shi) says, "There is no outside to its greatness and no inside to its smallness," meaning that there is no outside to its greatness and no inside to its smallness. This explanation of Tai Chi can be said to be seamless. This is because Tai Chi itself represents the universe and nature. Of course, the universe is so big that it has no boundaries, and so small that it has no inside. The word "pole" itself means boundless, so our common understanding of Tai Chi is: boundless and big, boundless and small. Confucius also interpreted the term Tai Chi in the Book of Changes, and the term Tai Chi has been used for thousands of years since then, and has never changed.

What is Tai Chi made up of? It is "yin and yang", "yin" pole produces "yang", "yang" pole produces "yin", "yang" pole produces "yin", "yang" pole produces "yin". The Tai Chi diagram is a better illustration. The world, but also the entire universe are yin and yang, yin and yang mutual existence, this is not the "I Ching" "three easy" in the "not easy" of the laws of nature?