mtlumby2d Chapter 119 Tai Chi
Chapter 119 Tai Chi
"First of all, this, Tai Chi, is a 'surprise' for us college students in the future."
Zhou Jia said she was surprised, but her body subconsciously moved back with a bit of fear.
Perhaps only college students can understand the power of Tai Chi to control their performance.
"Taijiquan is a major martial arts system. Because its boxing techniques are infinitely varied, we use the more traditional yin and yang, or Taiji, to name it. As for the meaning of the word Taijiquan, I think you predecessors should know it better than me.
The word Taiji is mentioned in the Book of Changes: Xici: "The Book of Changes has Taiji, which gives birth to the two opposites." To put it simply, Tai means big, and Ji means beginning or apex.
Then in the Song Dynasty, there was Zhou Dunyi. Remember this person, because you will be tested on him later. He wrote in "The Diagram of Taiji" that "Wuji and Taiji", which means that Taiji is the original meaning of all things, and it has an absolute and unique meaning. Tai Chi also contains part of its meaning.
But who exactly invented Tai Chi?..."
Zhou Jia had a strange smile on his face. "If you ask people in our later generations, I estimate that 70 to 80 percent of them would say that Tai Chi was created by Wudang Zhang Sanfeng, the Zhang Sanfeng who is said to have lived for more than 300 years and is said to have ascended to heaven!"
Zhang Sanfeng...
Long Bao felt that this name sounded familiar.
"Is that the old man in white clothes in the video you watched?"
He immediately remembered that Zhou Jia had seen a clip from a TV series on his phone before. In the scene, there was a young man with coal dust on his face talking to an old man, and there was also a girl dressed as a man. He remembered that the girl dressed as a man seemed to call the old man "Zhang Zhenren", and his name seemed to be Zhang Sanfeng.
I don’t know if the Zhang Sanfeng she is talking about is the Zhang Sanfeng in the movie or TV series.
On Mount Wudang, Zhang Sanfeng immediately looked up when he heard his name and looked at Zhou Jia with a smile. After Long Bao's reminder, he also remembered the clip he had seen when he saw Zhou Jia before.
He quite liked it, but he seemed to be plotted against in the drama, which made him very unhappy.
Unlike Long Bao, Ying Zheng, King Zheng of Qin and many people in Wan Chao were most concerned about the age of Zhang Sanfeng mentioned by Zhou Jia!
Liu Che choked himself on a grape and said, "Ahem, how much did she say?"
He stared at Wei Qing and Huo Qubing below him with wide eyes.
Both uncle and nephew were shocked. Huo Qubing stammered, "Three, three hundred...more!"
More than three hundred!
Liu Che looked at Zhou Jia angrily.
Not to mention Ying Zheng, he immediately found all the related books about Zhang Sanfeng in his own mall and started reading them.
More than three hundred years old, if this is true...
Ying Zheng is getting brighter and brighter.
Ordinary people were so surprised that they couldn't close their mouths. The emperors looked at Zhou Jia with burning eyes. Immediately, many people began to disturb the historical Zhang Sanfeng, asking him if he really lived for more than three hundred years.
Many people also questioned this in the barrage.
Zhou Jia said: "Zhang Sanfeng founded Tai Chi and the Wudang Sect. This is a plot in the martial arts works of Mr. Jin Yong in later generations. It is also because of his works that many people's first reaction may be to think of the Zhang Sanfeng in the novel, rather than the real Zhang Sanfeng in our history.
The birth and death years of Zhang Sanfeng in history are actually unclear, but by the time of the Ming Dynasty, almost all Ming emperors wanted to find out the whereabouts of Zhang Sanfeng, but to no avail, so it is really difficult to determine how many years he lived.
Zhou Jia sighed.
The Zhang Sanfeng in martial arts works has basically gone beyond the scope of martial arts and developed somewhat in the direction of spiritual cultivation. If he really lived for more than 300 years, Zhou Jia himself would also like to visit him and ask for the secret of longevity.