Tai Chi is a unique folk art movement in China. It plays a very good role in health preservation, health care, physical fitness and longevity. In today's increasingly rapid social development, in the face of various pressures from all directions, practicing Taijiquan has also become an essential sport for the middle-aged and elderly. How to practice Taijiquan? What are the benefits of practicing Taijiquan? Now follow this website to learn about it!
Taijiquan is the perfect combination of the dialectical theoretical thinking of the Chinese nation and martial arts, art, guidance, traditional Chinese medicine, etc. with the core idea of Taiji and yin-yang dialectical concept in Chinese traditional Confucianism and Taoism philosophy, it integrates various functions such as taking good care of temperament, strengthening body and fighting confrontation. It is a high-level human body culture. As a form of sports full of the concept of Oriental tolerance, the exercise of its practitioners for meaning, Qi, form and spirit is very in line with the requirements of human physiology and psychology, and plays an extremely important role in promoting the physical and mental health of human individuals and the harmonious coexistence of human groups. Taijiquan, an intangible cultural form with sports as the main external form and carrier, fully reflects human's objective cognition and scientific practice of nature.
1、 How to practice Tai Chi
The practice of Taijiquan, namely "abdominal breathing", increases the volume of the thorax, increases the negative pressure of the thorax, decreases the pressure of the superior and inferior vena cava and accelerates the blood reflux through the change of abdominal pressure.
Due to the regular increase and decrease of abdominal pressure, the activities of abdominal organs are strengthened, which improves the blood circulation of digestive tract, promotes the digestion and absorption function of digestive tract and prevents constipation.
Scientific research shows that the periodic contraction and relaxation of skeletal muscles in the whole body during Taijiquan can strengthen blood circulation.
2、 Benefits of practicing Taijiquan
1. Practicing Taijiquan for a long time can strengthen the function of storing and preserving essence of the kidney and regulate the endocrine system. Therefore, practicing Taiji boxing can not only improve impotence, spermatorrhea and soreness of waist and legs, but also improve insomnia, dreaminess and other symptoms caused by body deficiency and kidney deficiency, and can significantly improve the quality of sleep. Practicing Taijiquan can adjust the activity of nerve function, restore the highly nervous mental state, and achieve the balance of yin and Yang. Therefore, by practicing boxing to nourish the mind, we can treat neurasthenia, forgetfulness, insomnia, restlessness and other diseases.
2. Regulate the whole body. When playing Taijiquan, the periodic contraction and relaxation of skeletal muscles of the whole body can strengthen blood circulation. More importantly, due to muscle movement, it can make the reflex expansion of coronary artery, increase the opening of myocardial capillaries, provide sufficient oxygen, strengthen myocardial nutrition and improve systolic function. At the same time, the capillary network stored in the skin, muscles and internal organs of the whole body expands, resulting in the decrease of blood pressure, which can effectively prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular emergencies at night.
3. Practicing Tai Chi can relieve headaches. A study reported that practicing Taijiquan can help reduce the symptoms of tension headache in adults and enhance some aspects of patients' physical function.
Researchers organized patients with tension headaches to practice Taijiquan for 15 weeks, the report said. After practice, the headache symptoms of these patients were relieved. After testing the physical functions of the practitioners, the researchers found that the physical strength, social ability and mental state of the patients had also been greatly improved.
The researchers said that excessive mental tension and stress are one of the main causes of tension headache. Taijiquan is a kind of dynamic and relaxing exercise, which can effectively regulate people's physical and mental harmony. Practicing Taijiquan can improve the function of various systems and organs of the practitioner's whole body, enhance the physique, and achieve the role of disease treatment, fitness and disease prevention.
Researchers pointed out that this conclusion is in line with medical theory. Practicing Taijiquan requires calmness of mind and concentration. The movements need to be complete. From eyes to upper limbs, trunk and lower limbs, care up and down, and coherence. This requires the practitioner to have good control and balance ability. In the process of practicing Taijiquan, the central nervous system and other systems of the body can get good exercise.
4. It helps the liver and kidney. Taijiquan is an ancient way of fitness, which integrates the health preservation rules of "guidance" and "tuna". When practicing Taijiquan, we advocate using ideas to dominate the body. Long term use of this way can well adjust our mentality.
Thus, Taijiquan should be closely combined with consciousness, breathing and movement, and the internal and external unified internal skill boxing movement of "practicing consciousness, Qi and body" is formed, "starting with intention, then internal movement, and then external movement"; It also forms a unique boxing technique of combining hardness with softness, with a combination of speed and slowness, changing hair and internal strength.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that people are an organic whole, which connects up and down through the meridians and collaterals, communicates inside and outside, belongs to the viscera, and the external collaterals are in the limb joints. The unique practice method of Taijiquan can help to dredge meridians and activate collaterals. First of all, sudden and strong stimulation will cause the disorder of human Qi mechanism and the imbalance of Yin, Yang and Qi and blood of Zang Fu organs.
In the process of practicing Taijiquan, we should pay attention to completely relaxing the body. Such long-term persistence will help to dredge the meridians.
Secondly, the proper exercise of Taijiquan, which is gentle and soft throughout the body, will warm the whole body, increase the conduction speed and intensity of the meridians, help the meridians to be smooth and transparent, fill the whole body with Qi and blood, nourish the viscera, tissues and organs, nourish yin and Yang, maintain and protect the body function, and improve the ability to resist diseases and self repair.
Moreover, in Taijiquan, the winding movement composed of the rotation of the waist and the flexion and extension of the limbs will have different pulling, squeezing, pressing and rubbing effects on more than 300 acupoints of the whole body. This is actually a kind of self massage, which can play a role similar to acupuncture, activate meridians, stimulate meridians, dredge meridians, adjust deficiency and excess, and strengthen the physiological function of various tissues and organs.
5. Improve cardiopulmonary function. To practice Taijiquan, we should keep the breath natural and calm. Through the deep, long, thin, slow and uniform abdominal breathing method, we can increase the capacity of the chest and the number of oxygen and carbon inhalation, so as to ensure the full exchange of gas and relatively improve the oxygen acquisition of various organs. In addition, due to the long time of practicing Taijiquan (it takes more than 20 minutes to play 24 Style Taijiquan four times in a row), these aerobic activities can train and improve cardiopulmonary function.
6. Eliminate pressure. When practicing boxing, we should be "calm and purposeful, and have no distractions". We should also be relaxed and concentrate only on "meaning". In addition, Taijiquan itself requires both hardness and softness, breathing coordination, and the oxygen uptake of various organs is relatively increased. Therefore, after practicing, people feel light, the pressure is eliminated, and the mood is stable and flat; After practicing boxing, the blood and gas circulation is prosperous, the spirit is also refreshed, and the work efficiency is naturally improved. This is undoubtedly good for all kinds of Taijiquan. It can not only strengthen our body, but also help us eliminate stress and relieve our emotions. It is one of the ideal sports for modern people.