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Chen-style Taiji Boxing is one of the oldest schools of Taiji Boxing, which originated in Wudang inner exercise, flourished in Chen Village, Wen County of Henan province during the later period of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. Passed on from generation to generation by the family of Chen, improved on the basis of the original acts, it has developed into the first movement and the second movement today, which are different from each other in act, speed, strength, form, moving capacity, and difficulty.
There are 75 acts in the first movement of Chen-style Taiji Boxing, relying mainly on the applications of covering, stroking, pressing forward and pushing, supplemented by the applications of picking, lining up, elbowing and leaning to one side. The ways to use one's strength rely on the strength of twining supplemented by use one's power. The actions are required to be gentle on the basis of using one's power, meeting and overcoming hardness by softness. It characterizes as slowness, gentleness and steadiness in the appearance. Because of its slow acts, this boxing can be divided into the high, the middle and the low grades. The amount of physical exercises can be regulated, so this boxing is not only suitable for healthy people to strengthen bodybuilding but also suitable for the weak and chronic to cure diseases and keep fit. It takes eight to ten minutes to practice this boxing.

Names of the acts: 1. Starting position 2. Diamond hammer 3. Fastening one's clothes lazily 4. Six sealing and four closing 5. Single whip 6. Diamond hammer 7. The white goose displaying the two wings 8. Diagonal slanting 9. Brushing knees 10. Stepping forward three steps 11. Diagonal slanting 12. Brushing knees 13. Stepping forward three steps 14. Covering the hands and punching with the fists 15. Diamond hammer 16. Turning around and throwing a fist 17. The blue dragon emerging from the water
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