{"id":1456,"date":"2020-09-22T19:12:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/?page_id=1456"},"modified":"2021-01-01T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T22:19:11","slug":"what-is-tai-chi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/faqs\/what-is-tai-chi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u751a\u9ebc\u662f\u592a\u6975\uff1f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is Tai Chi? Welcome to Ji Hong Tai Chi &amp; Qi Gong What is Tai Chi? Tai chi is an internal martial art that combines philosophy, martial arts, well-being and self-awareness. Considered \u201cmoving meditation&#8221;, tai chi requires focus of the mind and body synchronized with slow, controlled movements. This low-impact exercise, practised with relaxed muscles, improves natural posture alignment, balance and inner peace. There are five main family styles of tai chi chuan: Chen, Yang, Wu, Sun and Hao. All five styles have the same origin and share many similarities. However, each style has its own unique characteristics and emphasizes a particular aspect of movement. To learn more about the different family styles of tai chi, go to the Tai Chi Forms page. Around the 17th\u00a0century, 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 is the oldest form of the five primary tai chi styles. The others are derived from the Chen family style of tai chi. Chen style tai chi is characterized by its explosive movements including jumps, kicks and strikes. Silk reeling\u2014spiral movements that flow from the feet to the hands\u2014is the foundation of Chen style tai chi. Low, powerful stances develop strength and agility. Slow, graceful movements are alternated with quick, forceful ones. Chen style tai chi provides a good cardio workout, but requires more athleticism and physical coordination than some of the other styles of tai chi. This style appeals to young practitioners and martial artists. However, the elderly and those <a href=\"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/faqs\/what-is-tai-chi\/\" title=\"Read more on What is Tai Chi?\" class=\"more-link\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Tai Chi? Welcome to Ji Hong Tai Chi &amp; Qi Gong What is Tai Chi? Tai chi is an internal martial art that combines philosophy, martial arts, well-being and self-awareness. Considered \u201cmoving meditation&#8221;, tai chi requires focus of the mind and body synchronized with slow, controlled movements. This low-impact exercise, practised with relaxed &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":540,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1456","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1456","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=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1456\/revisions\/2709"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taichiontario.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}