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Wushu Dance - Floating Clouds and Flowing Water

: The Emei School of Martial Arts got its name from Mt. Emei. In a general sense, Emei is the name...

: Shaolin Kungfu is a kind of martial arts practiced by monks under the special Buddhist culture of...

: Red Boxing is a leading boxing genre in Shaanxi, where three branches marked by Tongguan and...

This is a program staged at the 2007 Spring Festival Gala. The program was composed of three parts: fan dance, Taiji Boxing and Southern Boxing. The Taiji Boxing part was most popular, attracting lots of Taiji fans from both home and abroad.

The eight performers of Taiji Boxing, four men and four women, were not professional actors, but athletes on the national wushu routine training team. Away from the Spring Festival Gala and into the Taiji Boxing ring, the performers are world championship winners, Asian Games champions and national champions at least.

Taiji Quan (Shadow Boxing)

Taiji Quan (Shadow Boxing), which can be used to self-defense and improve the corporeity and prevent and cure the illness, is a kind of traditional Chinese boxing with gentle and slow actions. It has a long history with various schools and wide popularity.

Taiji

Taiji

The so-called "taiji" mainly refers to yin and yang. The conflicting and interdependent relations between the yin and yang are the general rules in the material world. Yin and yang are used to...
Taiji

Taiji

In order to train his soldiers, the famous general Qi Jiguang choreographed a set of boxing movements by absorbing 32 postures from 16 famous folk boxing styles. The set of movements was called the...
Taiji

Taiji

Chen Wangting was a great master after Qi Jiguang to sort folk wushu styles. In his rearrangement, Chen was obviously under the influence of Qi Jiguang. He included as many as 29 movements from...
Taiji Boxing of Zhang Sanfeng

Taiji Boxing of Zhang Sanfeng

Zhang Sanfeng was the founder of Wudang Kungfu, who remained active from about 1314 to 1417. Legend about the creation of Taiji boxing goes in several versions: one of them refers to the fight...
Taiji Sword

Taiji Sword

The Taiji sword is an integral part of the Taiji exercise that combines the styles and characteristics of both shadowboxing and swordplay. It resembles shadowboxing in lightness, gentleness,...
Taiji Fan

Taiji Fan

Taiji fan is a unique bodybuilding martial art exercise blending the movements of Taiji boxing and other martial arts and dances. The movements are strong and flexible, aggressive and defensive,...