Chen-style Hunyuan Tai Chi 24 Forms by Zhang Jiping

Why do you need to study this course?

Nowadays, Tai Chi teaching has spread all over the world. Although we have entered the information and digital age, the teaching of Tai Chi abroad is still far behind that in China, because most foreign Tai Chi practitioners do not know the development and changes of Tai Chi in China. In the 1980s, a new Tai Chi, called Hunyuan Tai Chi, appeared in China.

Hunyuan Tai Chi was founded by Mr. Feng Zhiqiang (1928-2012), a famous master of Taiji and Chinese martial arts. Mr. Feng Zhiqiang is the most important Tai Chi master in China since the 1970s. He plays a connecting role in Tai Chi imparting and inheriting. He taught Chen Style Tai Chi Laojia to the descendants of Chen-family: Chen Xiaowang, Chen zhenglei, Zhu Tiancai and Wang Xi’an.

At the same time, Mr. Feng Zhiqiang founded Hunyuan Tai Chi, which is loved by Tai Chi practitioner in China and widely recognized and praised by Chinese Wushu circles. As a result, Hunyuan Tai Chi stood out from the old Chen Style，and opened a new era of the popularization and development of traditional Tai Chi.

What are the characteristics of Hunyuan Tai Chi?

Hunyuan Tai Chi has three characteristics. First, focus on internal skills and benefit the public. Hunyuan Tai Chi inherited and developed the tradition of internal and external cultivation together, making Tai Chi return to internal skill school. This highlights that Tai Chi is the attribute of Neijiaquan, which makes Tai Chi adapt to the development needs of public health.

Second, truth striking and true martial arts. Mr. Feng Zhiqiang is a recognized martial artist in Chinese Tai Chi. There are many good inheritors of martial arts under Feng Gong’s door. They don’t do the show, don’t be mysterious, don’t make a fuss, and really practice. These are reflected in the pushing hands and Sanshou training of Hunyuan Tai Chi.

Third, both life cultivation and virtue and art. Hunyuan Tai Chi not only has internal skills, routines and pushing hands, but also Mr. Feng Zhiqiang gives it a higher level of cultivation content. It is not only a skill learning, but also a moral cultivation and cultural cultivation, reaching a higher level of cultivation of personality and human nature.

What are the learning courses of Hunyuan Tai Chi?

Hunyuan Tai Chi is mainly composed of the internal skills, routines of weapons and boxing, push hands. The courses on Udemy platform include “Hunyuan Tai Chi 24 Forms”,  “Hunyuan Tai Chi Cannon 32 Forms”, “Hunyuan Tai Chi 48 Forms”, “Hunyuan Tai Chi Cannon 46 Forms”, “Hunyuan Tai Chi Sword”, “Hunyuan Tai Chi Saber”, “Stance training”, “Basic of Tai Chi Kungfu”, “Tai Chi boxing and kicking”, “Joint-locking up skill”, “Tai Chi Tumbling and Wrestling”, “Tai Chi hitting pile”.

Is Hunyuan Tai Chi as popular in the world as other Tai Chi schools?

When you retrieve this course, you are lucky. Because this is the first time that Mr. Zhang Jiping provides Hunyuan Tai Chi course to Udemy platform, so that foreign friends can know now. Therefore, although these courses are taught in Chinese, it is the earliest for foreign countries. Just now you’re like Columbus who discovered the new world, aren’t you?

What kind of teacher is Zhang Jiping?

Mr. Zhang Jiping is one of Mr. Feng Zhiqiang’s favorite disciples and the 11th generation successor of Chen Style Tai Chi. In 2014, he was elected secretary general of the International Hunyuan Tai Chi Federation.

Mr. Zhang graduated from Changchun University of traditional Chinese medicine. He practiced martial arts since childhood. When he was young, he had three other masters. Mr. Zhang’s Kungfu is very good. He is the fighting instructor of the Judicial Police Corps of Jilin Province, with 7-Dan of Chinese martial arts.

Mr. Zhang Jiping’s course is an important teaching of Hunyuan Tai Chi. The course categories are comprehensive, the teaching standards are detailed, and the action demonstration are standard. The courses of Mr. Zhang on Udemy are just the courses used by Tai Chi practitioners in China.

What is the routine Hunyuan Tai Chi 24 Froms?

Hunyuan Tai Chi 24 Forms is the basic routine, and it is also the most widely spread routine in China. It is a simplification of Hunyuan Tai Chi 48 Forms, and the action comes from the old Chen Style Tai Chi. But its movement style is very different from the old Chen Style. The 24 movements of Hunyuan Tai Chi are used for health care. They highlight relaxation, promote the circulation of Qi and blood, and do not harm the body.

By learning Hunyuan Tai Chi 24 Forms, you will enter a new realm of Tai Chi, and your level will be greatly improved to keep pace with the development of China now.

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How long do I have access to the course materials?

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Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?

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