
Автор: Frank Wei
Издательство: Amazon.com Services LLC
Год: 2018
Страниц: 114
Язык: английский
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Zhang Sanfeng was a legendary Chinese Taoist purported to have achieved immortality. According to various storiest, he was born during the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) and lived for over 307 years until the mid-Ming dynasty (1368-1664). Zhang Sanfeng is the creator of Tai Chi, a Neo-Confucian syncretism of Shaolin martial arts with his mastery of Tao Yin (or Neigong) principles. On one occasion, he observed a cat attacking a snake and was greatly inspired by the snake's defensive tactics. It remained still and alert in the face of the cat's onslaught until it made a lunge and fatally bit its attacker (it is also known as “dragon-tiger fight” in folk, snake represents dragon and cat represents tiger,). This incident inspired him to create a set of 72 forms of Tai Chi movements.