Tai chi isn’t just martial art but also philosophy of life. It’s interested because you will see how smart our ancestor make tai chi. The learn from nature and make one great culture from that. They can make whole hospital in one martial art. They brign our body to the basic level of health. Todays, tai chi use for alternative treatment in medical technology .
People belived that Chang Shan Feng is the Ancestor of tai chi. Chang Shan Feng lived in Wudang mountaion ,north west od Hubei Province, China. A lot of Chinese myth tell about Chang Shan Feng. In historical records , there were 2 Chang Shan Feng, ones lived in dynasty song and the other in dynasty ming . Chang Shan Feng in Dynasty Song was known good in martial art. In Chinese myth he got the tai chi from the dream. In that time Chang Shan Feng invated by the king Song to show his martial arts, but in the middle of road, there were 100 thief who inhibit his. In the night hi got a dream , Wudang mountain spirit came to him and teach him tai chi. In the next days he used the taichi to against 100 thief. Chang Shan Feng from Dynasty Ming was known good in play a sword. The story of Chang Shan Feng in Dynasty Ming told that Cahng Shan Feng learn Taoism in Wudang Mountain . he tried to solve the mystery of Yin –Yang , which is the theory of “ eight trigram”, and he tried to solve The mstery of immortality from turtle and bird life.
Tai chi is ancient culture in china which is still exist until now. There are people exercise by doing tai chi. People believe That Tai chi can give peace and positive energy. Tai chi have a strong philosophy side, because the fundamental of tai chi is yin-yang theory and Taoism . there are four basic characteristic of tai chi. First is fineness, softness, and slowness, which mean Taichi don’t give pressure into our body and our mind . everyone can do tai chi. Second characteristic is sustainability. It mean you must do whole tai chi moves and focus at the movements. The third is circular. Tai chi moves dominated by circular movement. Circular movement is common movement for joints in our body. so tai chi don’t force our body. The fourth is wholeness and harmony . Tai chi movements train us to coordinate our body.
The important thing when we do tai chi is our mind guiding our movements. We must focus on every movements in tai chi and throw away other thing in our mind. We control our emotion and trying clam our body. The coordination of the movements is same like characteristic of tai chi, wholeness and harmony. Tai chi teach to control core of our gravitation. This movement teach us to stabilize our self. Tai chi teach to manage breathing because it will make you breath normally and make you feel healthy, even if you feel unwell when do that, just breath normally. Tai Chi ask you to synchronize your movement consistently and teach you to look for your oww ability. Tai chi also ask to move forward step by step, it will teach you to doing every things more slowly. The last one, tai chi teach you about patience, endurance, and persistence. Tai chi teach you that to make you not easily bored and doing tai chi diligently.
Tai chi teach us more than matrial art or exercise, but teach about life philosophy also. Tai chi teach as to do everythings slowly, make us more focus with something we do, and teach us to control our emotion. Tai chi also drive us to forgetting all the negative things and be more positive. Positive thingking give more healthy feeling for our body. It proved by a research abot water which written by Masaru Enomoto in “The true power of Water”. This book explain that crystal water will change based on the environment their water taken place. Clean and healthy environment makes a good and beautifull shape. As we know, 80 % of our body cosisted by water so positive energy in our mind will bring the water in our body to positive shape, Enomoto prove this with rice experiment. In the experiment Enomoto put rice into 2 jars. In the first jar Enomoto puts paper with praising words and every days Enomoto praise this jar. In the second jar, Enomoto puts paper with humiliate words and mocking the jar. In the end of the experiment, the rice in the first jar still clean and rice in the second jar, the rice become dark and rotten. It prove that positive thinking will change your life to healthy mind and body. Tai chi help us to have this healthy life.