9 Armonies School - T'AI-C'HI-CHUAN (the supreme foundation fist)

The term T' ai-C' hi-Chuan, sometimes is translate like " the supreme foundation fist ", refers to the primordial interaction between the opposite ones: Yin, the dark, negative part and Yang, the clear, positive part.

The game of the opposite ones, represented in the modern symbol of Tao, is the essence of the movements of T' ai-C' hi.

Every movement has a circular course, withdrawing before being left over, moving on the left before turning to right, go down before stand up and so on... , giving life to a movement similar to that one of a river that slides uninterruptedly creating something like" MEDITATION in motion ".

T' ai-C' hi is not an infallible path for the conquest of the inner peace. It doesn't magically vanish the ira,the anxiety or fear.

It puts to contact everyone of us with his inner being and thisis already sufficient because it is the first step to understand ourselves.

This practical , like every spiritual discipline, give us the opportunity to take a look at the trash we have collected and stored inside of us through the years.

It doesn't exist a way to go around it , but only a way to go through it at the opportune moment.

Creating some moments in our day " dancing the emptyness " is like sleeping, after a disease for recover, is like drink source water, is like a free walking between clouds in a serene sky.

The style origins are misterious like every traditional Kung-Fu styles, because all have been handed down in oral way from father to son, from master to student, sometimes coloring with legends and extraordinary actions.

The recognized creator of T'ai C'hi is a Taoist monk called ZHANG-SAN-FONG (Chang-San-Feng).

It is handed down that it lived between the XII and XIV century a.C., the legendary sources attribute him an existence of 200 years, the possibility to walk for miles and miles without toil, the possibility to grasp until 20 arrows hurled to him and hurling to the same sender, the ability to melt the snow to his passage, moreover he had a monkey for a friend that collected the firewood for the fire and that practiced one monkey version of T' ai-C' hi.

The legend narrates that the art was revealed to Zhang during a noon meditation watching outside from the window he saw a crane that tried to attack a snake.

The snake could be fast and lethal, but the crane with his graceful and circular movements avoided the bites and counterattacked with great precision and force with its spout. From the XIII to XVIII century the first name that appears in the directory of more famous practicing is Wang Zhongyue (Wang Chung-Yueh).

Professional teacher, with its only disciple Jiang-Fa , he was subsequently master of Chen family,wich has the merit to have held with himself the more intimate secrets of T' ai-C' hi for many centuries in the same family, until Yang-Lu-Chang in the second half of XIX century.

Yang was a servant of the Chen family that continuously spied on the training of its masters fascinated since infancy from the martial limbs.

A day came uncovered and was forced to show what it had learned. his skill astonished all the family' members that gathered in commission in order to decide if send him away or make an exception to the rule teaching him also the secrets of the art.

The answer was positive than when Yang moved to Beijing to open his school, he was called " Yang the invincible one ".

Some sources attribute him extraordinary actions like contrasting the push of approximately 30 man with a single finger.

Yang devised T' ai-C' hi of its family that was called: the " T' Ai-Chi-Chuan Yang ", perhaps the most practiced in the world.

From Yang-Lu-Chang the greatest famous T'ai-C'hi styles have been developed , like WU (Hao) from Master Wu-Kwian-Chuan, SUN from Master Sun-Lu-Tang.

Tibetan T' ai-C' hi (" KAO "), is also famous like " the Lama Tibetan armony"or " The Lion T'ai C'hi".

It born in 1426 and founded from Lama ADA-TA (Adato, Adatol, Adato-jun, From-dit, Dai-Dot).

The legend narrates that he entered in the Shaolin Tibetan Monastery at 8 years old, because remained orphaned of his parents, that saw killed Barbarian from some bandits who wanted to steal in their house.

This experience deeply marked himself for all the life, living and travelling over again those images that no child would have to see.

All that was agravated because his uncles were too much poor in order to supply to the necessary requirements for another member in family, as much as they had already 3 sons of approximately the same age.

Therefore they decided to give him adoption to the county of Yueh-Shu, in the province of Ching-Hai, to the "thousand petals of gold of Buddha Monastery", where it learned the first steps of the tibetan martial art.

Ada-ta becomes Lama at 15 years old.

The legend narrates that nobody,even the oldest monks of the monastery succeeded to compete to the young Lama, who had the privilege to become direct student of Lama Gongut second only to Dalay-Lama. Ada-Ta believed that the Kung-Fu practiced from himself needed something other, so he left for a long travel through theChina for 50 years.

Returned in the monastery, it astonished all with extraordinary exhibitions of " force ", killing with his hands White Hymalaya Tigris, to fight alone against 100 persons without a single scratch, or in the meditation under a secular oak, it had the power to camouflage himself with the plant. Today the Tibetan T'ai C'hi still remains today in the shadow, as the trainers living outside the Shaolin Monastery, guards the art with much jealousy and apprehension to avoid theexcessive sell out of a such precious jewel.


Yang-Yu-Ting successore della famiglia Yang di T'ai-C'hi	Wu-Kwian-Chuan ideatore del T'ai-C'hi stile Wu	Sun-Lu-Tang ideatore del T'ai-C'hi stile Sun