25 SECRETS OF TAI CHI - CHEN FAMILY TAIJIQUAN 25 DISCIPLINES

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The Law of Body
1. Make the neck empty and be energy in the crown of the head. 
2. Loosen up the shoulder and immerge the elbow. 
3. Incubate the chest and suspend the lowerback.
4. Bend the knee and relax the hip.
5. Hang the buttocks and circle the groin.
6. Be comfortable and solid under a tray.
7. The body stands up in the center correctly.
8. The upper is empty and the lower is full, the empty and the full is clearly split.
9. Support in eight sides.

The Law of Mind
10. Relax the whole body deeply.
11. Go down the energy of mind to the low.
12. Protect dantian (elixir field) with intention, Sink energy into dantian
13. Feel and take exhalation and inhalation.
14. Penetrate energy far through the body.
15. Not to be lost and greatly.

The Law of Reeling Silk
16. According to the waist as an axis.
17. The chest and waist incurvates and folds.
18. Dantian rotates and moves.
19. Pass and penetrate through joint by joint.
20. Intention reaches and then energy reaches, energy reaches and then shape reaches.
21. Combine in and out mutually, The body becomes evenly a one house.

The Four Major Characteristics
22. Harmonize and help the hard and soft mutually, The fast and slow are mixed mutually.
23. Cultivating and discharging mutually change.
24. Be relaxed, alive, elastic and vibrating.
25. It goes a circular line in an external form, The internal force rotates in a spiral line.  

身法               Shēn Fǎ    
1. 虛領頂勁      Xū Lǐng Dǐng Jìn
2. 鬆肩沈肘      Sōng Jiān Chěn Zhǒu
3. 含胸塌腰      Hán Xiōng Tā Yāo, 尾閭中正  Wěi Lǘ Zhōng Zhèng
4. 屈膝鬆胯      Qū Xī Sōng Kuà
5. 垂臀圓襠      Chuí Tún Yuán Dāng
6. 下盘稳固      Xià Pán Wěn Gù
7. 立身中正      Lì Shēn Zhōng Zhèng
8. 上虛下實      Shàng Xū Xià Shí, 虛實分明    Xū Shí Fēn Míng
9. 八面支撑      Bā Miàn Zhī Chēng

心法              Xīn Fǎ            
10. 全身放鬆      Quán Shēn Fàng Sōng
11. 心氣下降      Xīn Qì Xià Jiàng
12. 意守丹田      Yì Shǒu Dān Tián, 氣沈丹田   Qì Chén Dān Tián
13. 感受呼吸      Gǎn Shòu Hū Xī
14. 氣貫周身      Qì Guàn Zhōu Shēn
15. 不丢不頂      Bù Diū Bù Dǐng

纏絲法           Chán Sī Fǎ
16. 以腰爲軸     Yǐ Yāo Wéi Zhóu
17. 胸腰折疊       Xiōng Yāo Zhé Dié
18. 丹田運轉       Dān Tián Yùn Zhuǎn
19. 節節貫串       Jié Jié Guàn Chuàn
20. 意到氣到       Yì Dào Qì Dào, 氣到形到   Qì Dào Xíng Dào
21. 內外相合       Nèi Wài Xiāng Hé, 周身一家   Zhōu Shēn Yì Jiā

四大特點        Sì Dà Tè Diǎn      
22. 剛柔幷(相)濟 Gāng Róu Bīng(Xiàng) Jǐ, 快慢相間 Kuài Màn Xiàng Jiàn
23. 蓄發相變         Xù Fā Xiāng Biàn
24. 鬆活彈抖         Sōng Huó Tán Dǒu
25. 外形走弧線    Wài Xíng Zǒu Hú Xiàn, 內勁走螺旋 Nèi Jìn Zǒu Luó Xuán