必修课程 a required course

掤、捋、挤、按、採、挒、肘、靠、进、退、顾、盼、定Peng (warding off), Lv (rolling back), Ji(pressing), An (pushing), Cai (pulling down), Lie (splitting), Zhou (elbowing),Kao (body stroke), Jin (advancing), Tui (retreating), Gu (shifting left), Pan(shifting right) and Ding (central equilibrium)

不丢不顶no releasing and resisting directly

不解之谜mystery

不偏不倚impartiality

缠丝twining

沉肩坠肘lowering the shoulders and elbows

沉着heavy and steady

撑掌unfolding palm

抽丝taking out the thread

丹田Dantian (pubic region)

弹簧力springy force

导引术guidance

道Tao;Dao

道法自然Taoism following the nature

敌进我退，敌驻我扰，敌疲我打，敌退我追retreating as the enemy advances, disturbing as theenemy camps, attacking as the enemy fatigues, advancing as the enemy retreats

第五代传人fifth-generation successor

顶头悬suspending the head and relaxing the neck

懂劲comprehending force

动与静motion and stillness

动中寓静stillness with motion

动作／招式／招术movement/action

对立统一the unity of opposites

对立与统一contradition and unfication;unity of theopposites

耳提面命whispering into disciplesears and talking face to face

发劲discharging force

法道修身self-cultivation with Tao

法道治国state-governing by Tao

反者道之动，弱者道之用The application of Dao is using mildnessrather than violence, softness rather than hardness

非圆即弧either circle or arc

刚柔相济combining hardness with softness

根于脚，主宰于腰，行于手指rooting with feet, leading with waist, andmoving with fingers

弓步n.bow stance; v.lunge forward

功夫Gongfu; Kungfu;fighting art;fightingskills

攻防attack and defense; offense and defense

攻防搏击offensive and defensive fighting

贯串之意Yi of permeating

国术馆National Martial Arts Gyms

含胸拔背contracting the chest and lengthening theback

合中有开closing with opening

后发制人striking only after being struck

呼、发、伸、进、起、仰、往、出、放、打、击、刚、动、实、开、升、上、左breathing out, attacking, extending,advancing, raising, facing upward, going, sending, releasing, hitting,striking,hardness, moving, solidness, opening, lifting, ascending,turning left

呼与吸breathing out and breathing in

化劲dispersing force

技击术art of attack and defense

节节贯串jointscoordinating

借力打力transforming the coming force to attackthe opponent

劲整integrating force

经络Jingluo (main and collateral channels)

经络中通行的气Qi (air) in Jingluo

精神mind

静中寓动motion with /in stillness

卷（蓄）与放storing and discharging

开胯屈膝separating the thighs and bending theknees

开与合opening and closing

开中有合opening with closing

快与慢rapidness and slowness

老子学说Laozis Doctrines

砺练品格morality training

练劲building up power

练巧mastering techniques

练顺smoothing out the frame

螺旋volution

螺旋缠绕spiral enwinding

落点（劲点）attacking points（positions）

门规戒条doctrines, regulations and restrictions

内不动，外不发no internal Yi (mind), no externalmovements

内劲Neijin (inner power)

内劲潜换inner power exchanging

内气Neiqi (inner air)

内外皆修internal and external cultivation

内外统一uniting mind with body

偏心距eccentric distance

平和安静，谦和大度，博爱真诚，感恩包容gentleness and peace, modesty andgenerosity, love and sincerity, gratitude and tolerance

平心静气calming mind

气沉丹田Qi Chen Dantian (storing qi in the pubicregion）

气敛Storing Qi (spirit;air)

牵一发而动全身a slight move in one part may affect thewhole situation

乾坤Qiankun (heaven and earth, the universe)

强身健体body building and physical fitness

窍aperture

轻灵agile

轻与沉lightness and heaviness

全国武术锦标赛Championship of National Martial Arts

拳法boxing method

拳理boxing theory

拳式movement

拳姿boxing posture

人不犯我、我不犯人、人若犯我、我必犯人We will not attack unless we are attacked;if we are attacked, we will certainly counterattack.

柔与刚softness and hardness

儒雅端庄refined and dignified

散手San Shou (free sparring)

上下相随the harmony between the upper and lowerbody

舍己从人giving up ones own to accept the widely-accepted one

身心双修physical and spiritual cultivation

神Shen (concentration of the mind)

神聚concentrating the attention

神明sprirtual illumination

十大文化脉系ten major regional cultures

十三势Thirteen (13) Postures

收敛入骨storing in the body

疏通经络activating channels

四两拨千斤defeating the strong with little effort

松静自然being natural, relaxed and quiet

松柔缓慢soft and slow

松腰圆裆relaxing the waist and separating thethighs

宋明理学Neo-Confucianism

太极拳Taijiquan;Tai Ji Quan;Tai Chi;Taijiboxing;Shadow boxing

太极拳圣地Hometown of Taijiquan

太极拳小架子the small frame of Taijiquan

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