Tai Chi

The history of Tai Chi Chuan goes back to the 14th century when a Taoist monk named Chang San Fung, witnessed a battle between a crane and a snake. He noticed that the soft circular movements of the snake overcame the hard movements of the bird. This gave him the idea to devise a system of self-defense based on that principle. The art that evolved has since followed the styles of many masters in a variety of forms. These forms were guarded secrets among certain families in China. During the first half of this century the secrets were revealed when Ying Kit Tung opened schools in Peking.

The word 'tai' means 'Big,' or 'Great,' while Chi indicates the 'ultimate' or 'great system.' so Tai chi is the art of generating energy through movement, this is the ultimate energy that powers the universe from the greatest star down to the smallest of microscopic creatures. The two great polarities of oriental philosophy and science are seen in The Yin and the Yang. This art is celebrated in many diverse areas like oriental medicine, literature and painting.

Yin is defined as being cool, negative, evening, winter and autumn; while yang is defined as warm, positive, morning, summer and spring, and so on. You will find the earliest references to Yang and Yin in literature. In the ancient Chinese 'book of changes' called The I Ching one sees that the Yin and the Yang are two halves of one great whole - and this is called the Tai Chi.

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