• AS A DEFINITION
• AS FOR THE NAME: TAI-CHI CHUAN OR TAIJIQUAN
• INTRODUCTION
• THE FORM
• THE CHARACTERISTICS OF TAI CHI CHUAN
• THE TAI CHI CHUAN STYLES
• PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS WHICH SUSTAIN THE TAI-CHI CHUAN THEORY
• TAOÍSM AND THE ORIGIN OF TAI CHI CHUAN
• THE CHI (QI)
• THE TAN-TIEN (or dan tian)
• INTERNAL MARTIAL ARTS
• NEI-GONG
• QIN-NA
• TUI-SHOU

  
  

NEIGONG (nei-gong)

A preliminary definition could be the following: It is a work to nourish, to increase and to fortify one’s internal ´´qi´´. This is also like one’s own spirit. The work to learn how to use the ´´intention-mind´´ to put the ´´qi´´ in movement - and this sets one’s own body into action as well- Approximately, ´´Nei´´ means internal and ´´gong´´ means work. In the next articles of Master Zhang Xiumu, it will be explained more profoundly the concepts that are vital to taijiquan / tai-chi chuan and related to qi-gong.