the legendary time Of TaiChi

The story begins from Buddha, the old ancient time in 600 BC and the famous beginning of the Zen. When buddha lifted a lotus flower and smiled to everyone in a meeting on the Mount Lengjia, no one knew the meaning but one. JiaYe( the chinese pronunciation), the great disciple of buddha, also smiled to buddha. Then the buddha told others: "I have a treasure, like a secret mountain, which is real but with no any appearance, now I give it to JiaYe the Great." --- The treasure is passed from heart to heart directly, and this is also the case in the following generation when they pass the treasure of Zen.

When Zen is passed to DaMo (Chinese pronunciation) as the 10th generation of Zen, the buddhism in India decayed. So DaMo left India to China, that is in Liang Dynasty, just before Tang Dynasty in China. He settled down in Shao-Lin Temple after he met the Emperor. He brought some great method in training people's body and soul, and initiated the Chinese Zen (as he honored the first generation of Chinese Zen), His another contribution is the Shao-Lin Kongfu, although it is a way of fighting, it means to help people to improve their spirit level. Shao-Lin Kongfu began famous at the beginning of Tang Dynasty, for the monks saved the Emperor Li Shimin with their fighting skills ( this is about 600AD)

Lao-Tzu (about 600BC) is the founder of Taoism, is at the same period with Buddha, in Chinese Spring and Fall Dynasty. (in fact at the same time, the Socrates in the west world). He is a master of the Chinese traditional philosophy, and systematically initiate the theory of Yin and Yang, the relation of man and nature, the relation with strong and weak. As Confucius said, he was a "magic dragon". His famous paper "Tao-Te Ching", is always treated highly for thousands of years. In that paper, he mentioned the way "learn from the nature as your teacher", "the new born baby is weak and soft, but the growing force is strong, when he grow up ,he becomes strong and stiff, the life strength is with weak and soft. When something is overwhelmed, it is near its end, although it looks strong." We can see this words strongly influence the Tai-Chi. So we say Tai-Chi is more near Taoism. After Lao-Tzu, there are a lot of Taoism training methods in China, aiming at "unity of people and nature".

There are a lot of Taoism physical practice in China after Lao-Tzu, at first they are learned from the long life animals and the nature, and then they pay attention to the breath, and and the impact of mind. They learned from outer apperence to the inner meaning of the nature phenomena. Among those people, are the Wang Chongyang in Zhongnan Mountain, Xu Xuanping in Sung Dynasty, and as the founder of Tai-Chi Chuan, Chang Sanfeng.

The Taoism methods, the Buddhism methods, and India Yoga school methods, form the unique oriental training style so different with the modern way (such as athletic way like jogging and body building). Even in today, they are helpful for the mankind to solve the problems in modern life from different ways.