Tai Chi Chuan is based on thirteen concepts that are treated as technical (fa 法) but are present in different forms or patterns of actions and thus are also called energy (jin劲) in an energetic sense of power output (internal force 内劲 nei jin) and the body structure.
The thirteen technical / energies are: Peng, Lu, Ji, An, Cai, Lie, Zhou, Cao, Jin, Tui, Gu, Pan and Ding. Also known as the Eight Gates and Five Steps (BA mén Wǔ bu) 八 门 五步 and are classified as follows:
The eight doors (BA mén) 八 门 also called Eight methods (Ba fa) or techniques hands (Shou fa 手法)
• All four sides (If zheng 四 正)
掤 Peng (reject) ... South
Lǜ 履 (stretching) ... ... ... North
Jǐ 挤 (press) ... ... West
Àn by (hundir) ... ... .. Este
• Las cuatro esquinas (Si yu Siyu)
Cǎi mining (tirar hacia abajo) .... Suroeste
Liè Lie (partir) ... ... ... ... ... .. .. Nordeste
Zhǒu elbow (codo) ... ... ... ... .... Sureste
Kào by (hombro) ... ... ... ... .. Noroeste
• Los cinco pasos (Wǔ bù) five-step o técnicas de pies (Bu fa step)
Jìn bù progress (avanzar)
Tùi bù backward (Back)
Zǔo GÙ 左 顾 (see left)
You 右 盼 bread (see right) Zhong Ding
中 定 (central equilibrium)
The eight gates are associated with the eight trigrams Pa Kua (Ba Gua py八卦) of I Ching (Yijing 易经 py), the Five Steps are associated with the Five Agents cosmological (py wǔ 五行 xing): metal, wood, water, fire and earth (木, 火, 土, 金, 水).
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