{"id":508,"date":"2017-03-19T17:39:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T17:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/?page_id=508"},"modified":"2022-01-19T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:45:07","slug":"508-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/?page_id=508","title":{"rendered":"The 13 movements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q: What are the 13 movements exactly?<\/p>\n

A: Simply put the 13 movements are a simpel overview of the most basic ways to move in Tai Chi – a templet to work from.<\/p>\n

They consist of five directions (North, South, East, West, Centre) that correspond to the five phases, or five elements, which is a famous basic concept in ancint Chinese philosophy.<\/p>\n

The \u00a0eight movements correspond to the eight trigrams which is a concept from the famous I Ching or Book of Changes that is nearly 3000 years old.<\/p>\n

The movements are basic attack and defense moves.<\/p>\n

\"PengLuJiAnCaiLieZhouKao\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Peng – Ward off\"p1\"<\/p>\n

\"p2\"<\/p>\n

L\u00fc – Pull\"Lu1\"<\/p>\n

\"Lu2\"<\/p>\n

Ji – Press\"ji1\"<\/p>\n

\"ji2\"<\/p>\n

An – Push\"an1\" \"an2\"<\/p>\n

Cai – Pull downwards ( like plucking a fruit from a tree)\"cai \"cai2\"<\/p>\n

Lie – Short and sharp move to break the opponent’s force
\n\"lie1\" \"lie2\"<\/p>\n

Zhou – Elbow
\n\"zhou1\" \"zhou2\"<\/p>\n

Kao – Shoulder\"kao1\"<\/p>\n

\"kao2\"<\/p>\n

Pictures are from Tung Huling’s book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q: What are the 13 movements exactly? A: Simply put the 13 movements are a simpel overview of the most basic ways to move in Tai Chi – a templet to work from. They consist of five directions (North, South, East, West, Centre) that correspond to the five phases, or five elements, which is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-508","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/508\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}