{"id":1432,"date":"2020-09-22T19:08:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/?page_id=1432"},"modified":"2020-12-20T19:51:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T23:51:43","slug":"tai-chi-forms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/programs\/tai-chi-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"\u592a\u6975\u62f3\u5957\u8def"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tai Chi Forms &nbsp; Welcome to Ji Hong Tai Chi &amp; Qi Gong There are many different family styles of tai chi. They all share the same origin and their fundamental principles are pretty much the same. However, each style has its own unique characteristics and emphasizes a particular aspect of movement or principle. To that end, let&#8217;s explore the current main family styles of tai chi. Around the 17th century, the Chen family of the Chen Village in the Henan province of China were practising their own unique form of martial arts which became the Chen family style of tai chi. Chen Style Tai Chi is the oldest and the original tai chi form. All other forms of tai chi like Yang style, Wu style, Sun and Hao styles were all derived from Chen style tai chi. Within Chen style, there are two forms that are being taught: Chen style first routine and Chen style second routine (a.k.a. Cannon Fist). It is the most dynamic of all the styles with a combination of soft and power movements, a tempo with varying speeds of slow, fast and very fast, and techniques that include kicks, punches and jumps. The required stances are wide and low, and movements are big and spiral-like. The low and wide stances strengthens the lower body, the intricate spiral movements improves coordination, the varied pace and explosive moves builds core and upper body strength. Overall it provides the most cardio and physical workout among all the styles. Movements in the Chen style first routine are focused more on softness with the occasional mix of explosive force. <a href=\"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/programs\/tai-chi-forms\/\" title=\"Read more on Tai Chi Forms\" class=\"more-link\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tai Chi Forms &nbsp; Welcome to Ji Hong Tai Chi &amp; Qi Gong There are many different family styles of tai chi. They all share the same origin and their fundamental principles are pretty much the same. However, each style has its own unique characteristics and emphasizes a particular aspect of movement or principle. &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1528,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1432","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1432\/revisions\/2697"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}