《黄庭经》与陈氏太极拳

“Huangtingjing Classic” and Chen-Style Taijiquan

《黄庭经》主要分为《黄庭内景经》与《黄庭外景经》,讲道家修炼养生之道,也是国人"气功"养生的功法基础。河南温县陈家沟人陈王廷创编了陈氏太极拳,以他发明的"缠丝劲"为统御,协调上、中、下周身关节,把《黄庭经》导引术主张的静态功法,变成了内静外动、动静结合的太极拳运动,使得《黄庭经》导引术等功法由静练变为动静相结合的练;由主要在室内练变为主要在室外练;由少数人练变为广大群众练。这是对《黄庭经》导引术的极大丰富与发展。

The 'Huangtingjing Classic'(an important classic of Taoism in China) is mainly divided into 'The Interior of Huangtingjing Classic' and 'The Exterior of Huangtingjing Classic'. It tells about the way of Taoist practice and health keeping, and is also the skill basis of our fellow countrymen's health keeping with qigong(a system of deep breathing exercises). Chen Wangting, who came from Chenjiagou in Wenxian County of Henan Province, created Chen-style taijiquan(tai chi chuan, a kind of traditional Chinese shadow boxing) with the 'silkwinding strength' invented by him as the control to coordinate the whole body's joints from the upper to the middle and to the lower part. He changed the static work method advocated by the guidance skill in the 'Huangtingjing Classic' into taijiquan exercise, which shows internal quietness and external movements with a static and dynamic combination. This has made the work methods like the guidance skill in the 'Huangtingjing Classic' evolve from static practice to the practice that combines both the static and the dynamic, from the practice mainly carried out indoors to outdoors, and from an exercise practiced by a small number of people to the vast masses.This is the great enrichment and development to the guidance skill of 'Huangtingjing Classic'.