Supreme Ridgepole: Sūnlùtáng’s thoughts on Tàijíquán (Tai-Chi-Chuan)

• Autor(a) principal: Apolloni, Rodrigo Wolff
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Rever (São Paulo. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/rever/article/view/37386
• topic: Tàijíquán. Arte marcial chinesa. Cosmogonia chinesa. Religiões chinesas. Sūnlùtáng.; Tàijíquán. Chinese martial arts. Chinese cosmogony. Chinese religions. Sūnlùtáng

Slow, harmonious, meditative and “energetic” movements, combined with a perspective of use based on hand-fighting and traditional weapons, make Tàijíquán an unique oriental corporal body practice. Born in early nineteenth century China and consolidated in twentieth century’s first decades, Tàijíquán is a late Qing Dynasty sum of martial, corporal, cosmogonic, religious and historical Chinese elements. In this article, we investigate a fundamental element of Tàijíquán field: the denomination of the martial art. We search its cosmological and martial generative elements. In this way, our research has focused in Chinese Studies, historical documents and in a text published by Sūnlùtáng, founder of the “fifth classical school” of Tàijíquán and iconic figure of the Chinese martial scene.