{"id":587,"date":"2019-01-29T12:20:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T12:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/?page_id=587"},"modified":"2019-01-29T20:06:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T20:06:57","slug":"peng-jin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/?page_id=587","title":{"rendered":"What does Peng Jin mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q: What is the right translation of the word\u00a0\u63a4<\/strong>\u00a0‘Peng’ or\u00a0\u63a4\u52b2<\/strong> ‘Peng Jin’ that every practitioner of Tai Chi Pushhands have heard?<\/p>\n

A: New dictionaries can’t be used in this context. The character is not even included in most modern dictionaries.<\/p>\n

According to the old dictionaries, like Hanyu Da Cidian:<\/p>\n

\u63a4<\/strong> PENG<\/strong> is a noun that means “arrow quiver”. As a verb it means “to burst”, “explode”, “crack open like an arrow quiver that cracks”,\u00a0or “shoot”.<\/p>\n

\u52b2\u00a0JIN<\/strong> means “strength” or “force” and in Tai Chi this would, of course, relate to internally produced force as opposed to mere muscle strength.<\/p>\n

So \u63a4\u52b2\u00a0<\/strong>Peng Jin means “an exploding force”. Not unlike the word \u767c\u52c1<\/strong> Fajin which means “to issue force”, but more in the sense of “burst”.<\/p>\n

The Tai Chi Classics say: “Gather energy like drawing a bow, then release it like shooting an arrow”.<\/p>\n

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Entry for ‘peng’ in the Hanyu Da Cidian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The character Peng \u580b<\/strong>\u00a0 means the target in archery.<\/p>\n

The character Peng \u5f38<\/strong> \u00a0means a fully stretched bow.<\/p>\n

Both also referring to bow an arrow.<\/p>\n

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Q: What is the right translation of the word\u00a0\u63a4\u00a0‘Peng’ or\u00a0\u63a4\u52b2 ‘Peng Jin’ that every practitioner of Tai Chi Pushhands have heard? A: New dictionaries can’t be used in this context. The character is not even included in most modern dictionaries. According to the old dictionaries, like Hanyu Da Cidian: \u63a4 PENG is a noun that […]<\/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-587","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/587\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetaichiworkshop.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}