Dear members

I would like to develop a glossary of taiji terms.

Here's a start:

An = Push or press downward
An Jing = Quiet energy
Ba Gua = Eight trigrams based on the I Ching
Baduanjin = Eight pieces of brocade qigong
Bagua = Eight trigram routine
Bai hui = Acupuncture point at top of the head
Bi Qi = To seal the breath
Boh Jing = Deflecting or bouncing power
Bu = Footwork or stances

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Taiji glossary 13 Jan 2008

The following terms are taken from Chen Style Taijiquan by Davadine Siaw-Voon Sim & David Gaffney.


Taiji tu: Yin-yang Taiji symbol
Wuji: The void from which Taiji emerges
Lai’s Yin-Yang: Lai’s whirling Taiji tu (Taiji symbol)
Zhou’s Yin-Yang: Zhou’s tadpole Taiji tu (Taiji symbol)
Peng: A sense of buoyancy throughout the body
Peng: A vertical circular movement that spirals upwards & outwards, warding off an advancing force
Lu: A diverting action. Involves an oblique drawing movement, upwards or downwards in a horizontal plane

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jb

here is a link to a rather complete glossary

http://www.ckfa-kungfu.com/taijiquan/glossary.htm

Dear Maria,

Thanks for the link. It's a good glossary. I was thinking that it would be good to have a glossary with attributions and examples, like in an encyclopedia. However, this would require a shared file, which we don't have on phpbb. So I was thinking of starting a wikipedia file. I haven't updated a wiki so I'd have to learn it. Looking at the wikipedia entry on Xingyiquan today, I noticed that it lacked attributions. So I might start on that one. What do you think?

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I think it is always a good idea to share knowledges.

I have never written on wiki neither, so I do not know how to do, but I have some other links in my computer related to the taiji theory or the Chinese philosophy, maybe it will help you

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you may also add : ba fa : eight methods ( peng, lü, ji ,an, cai, lie zhou kao )

Thank you all for the links and glossaries. I appreciate all very much.

I am looking for the Pinyin version of the long forms (yang, Chen, Wu and Chen sword) but would like to have the tones too, not just the Pinyin without tone.

Would someone know where to find them?
I noticed that most of the time the Pinyin is given without any indication of tone.

Thanks

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in Chinese, there are 4 tones (and a neutral one), so when you write a word in pinyin you usally write the tone number, so you have ma1, ma2, ma3, ma4

for more details loke here :

http://www.wku.edu/~shizhen.gao/Chinese101/pinyin/tones.htm

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@ Isabelle

If you take a look in the book : Taijiquan by Li Deyin, Foreign Language Press Beijing, you will find the name of different forms in pinyin (with the tones ) and simplified Chinese :

81 step, 24 step, 42 step, 42 step taiji sword, 32 step taiji sword

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