The Spread And Development Of Chen Style Tai Chi Chuan Big Frame In Xi’an

Tai Chi Chuan has been a miracle in Chinese martial arts world, a special martialart based on the theory of Tai Chi. Since Tai Chi Chuan was created by ChenWangting in late Ming Dynasty, with its characteristics of toughness and softnesscompensating each other, fastness and slowness weaving, bounding and jumping,being flexible and elastic, it has been followed for generations and developed as timegoes by. For hundreds of years, Tai Chi Chuan has been serving as a great art form inhealth preserving, body-building, self-protection and martial arts in different agegroups and genders，and it has been loved by people. What’s more, with its uniqueeffectiveness in exercising the Bones and muscles, dredging the channels andcollaterals, adjusting nerves and keeping fit, Tai Chi Chuan has been universallyrecognized.So far, there are a great many researches on the techniques and theories of Chen styleTai Chi Chuan both at home and abroad. But these researches mainly focus on thetechnical essentials and stylistic characteristics of Chen style Tai Chi Chuan, withlittle attention to the research on the territorial development. Chen style Tai Chi Chuanhas produced some technical essentials and set patterns and styles different from theones originated from its birth place–Wen County in Henan Province in its spread toXi’an. The martial art is a culture form, which, inevitably has to be branded itsterritorial culture. The value of this article lie in the deep research into Tai ChiChuan’s spread, development and its set patterns and styles influenced by the history,the local tradition of learning martial arts in Xi’an, humanistic environment, andnational policies, after Chen style Tai Chi Chuan spread in Xi’an from Wen County inHe Nan Province. Consequently, it will play an active role in its reference function toChen style Tai Chi Chuan and other martial arts’ spread and development worldwide.