陈鑫《太极拳图画讲义》的文献价值及学术地位

Literature value and academic status of An Illustrated Introduction of Taijiquan written by CHEN Xin

通过分析陈鑫《太极拳图画讲义》出版的历史背景、过程及出版前后相关陈氏太极拳的著作和人物,认为这部著作不仅是我国发现最早一部关于陈氏太极拳的经典著作,也是对温县陈家沟传统太极拳理论与实践研究的重要文献。这部遗著集陈鑫太极拳学思想精髓与理论创新之大成,表现为确立陈氏太极拳的基本概念、凝聚太极拳的文化思想、提出"缠丝劲"法的技术特点、创新"十三势"程式化的教学法。长期以来,这部著作未能得到学界普遍承认和客观评价,甚至学术思想被明显歪曲和篡改,其原因与20世纪30年代初以来,唐豪和陈子明指出的"陈王廷创拳说"观点相悖有直接的关系。

By analyzing the historical background and process of publication of An Illustrated Introduction of Taijiquan（hereinafter referred to as the Introduction for short） written by CHEN Xin, collated the information about the works and people in relation to CHEN style Taijiquan before and after the publication of the Introduction, and put forward the following opinions： the Introduction finished by CHEN Xin before his death is not only the earliest classic CHEN＇s Taijiquan teaching textbook found so far in China, but also an important work for studying the theory and practice of traditional Taijiquan in Chenjiagou, Wen county in the early Republic of China; this posthumous work is a comprehensive work on the ideological essence and theoretical innovation of CHEN Xin Taijiquan, which are shown in establishing the basic concepts of CHEN style Taijiquan, extracting the cultural thoughts of Taijiquan, putting forward the technical characteristics of the wire wrapping power approach, innovating on the ＂thirteen-move＂ proceduralized teaching method; for a long time, the Introduction was not commonly recognized and objectively evaluated by academic community, even some of its academic thoughts and theories were obviously twisted and falsified, whose reason was directly related to that they contradicted the view in ＂the theory of boxing being created by CHEN Yu-ting＂ put forward by TANG Hao and CHEN Zi-ming since the early 1930 s.