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List of Tai Chi Chuan forms
List of Tai Chi Chuan forms, postures, movements, or positions in order of number of forms:
Hand forms
4 - Chen 4 Step is a subset of Chen Old Frame One (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
8 - Yang Standardized
8 - Chen Standardized
9 - Chen Old Frame (Master Liu Yong)
10 - Yang
12 - Yang
13 - Chen (aka Five Element Chen) subset of either Old Frame One or Small Frame (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
13 - Dong Yue (East Mountain) Combined
13 - Wudang (Zhang SanFeng - Wudang Nei Jia Quan) - Shi San Shi
16 - Yang Standardized
16 - Chen Standardized
16 - Actually Chen 4 Step (see above) popularly repeated in four directions of the compass (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
18 - Chen (Grandmaster Chen Zheng Lei)
18 - Wudang (Zhang SanFeng - simplified new form)
19 - Chen (Grandmaster Chen Xiao Wang)
20 - 5 Section Taijiquan (Yang Simplified)
20 - 5 Section Chen Taijiquan (Chen Simplified)
20 - Simplified form of Chen Xiaojia (Small frame of Chen T'ai Chi Ch'uan)
24 - Yang ('Simplified', 'Beijing', 'New Style') Standardized
24 - Chen Shi (Chen style) Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan (24 Form by Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang)
24 - Zhao Bao
24 - Jingquanshitaijiquan (24 Forms - T'ien Ti Tao/Tiandidao)
28 - Wudang Taiji
32 - Combined Form
32 - Chen Standardized "Fist" (New Frame)
34 - Wudang short
35 - Sun Standardized Short
36 - Chen Standardized (New Frame)
36 - Fu style short form tai chi ch'uan
37 - Yang (Zheng, Cheng Man-ch'ing ) Short
38 - Chen (Grandmaster Chen Xiao Wang)
39 - Chen (Old frame 39)
39 - Chen (New frame 39)
40 - Yang competition
40 - Sun Family Modern Short Form
40 - Jingquanshitaijiquan (40 Steps or 24 Forms - T'ien Ti Tao/Tiandidao)
42 - Chen (Old form cannon fist)
42 - Combined Style Competition Form
42 - Sun Traditional Short
43 - Yang (Jiang Yu Kun )
43 - Zhao Bao
46 - Yang Competition
46 - Wu competition
48 - Combined (list of) denotations and illustrations (This form, established in 1976, combined techniques from Chen, Yang, Wu, and Sun forms, and was used as a Competition Form until it was replaced by the 42 Form Competition Form.)
48 - Chen Shi (Chen style) Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan (48 Form by Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang)
49 - Yang Demo/Family competition
49 - Wu (Hao) short form
50 - Lee style short form
53 - Fu style advanced tai chi
54 - Wu Jianquan family (Wu Daxin ) competition form
56 - Chen Competition
56 - Zhao Bao
64 - Yang (Kuang Ping style)
66 - Combined Standardized (Lost, original content unknown)
67 - 67 movements Combined Tai-Chi Chuan form
67 - Fu style tai chi lightning palm
67 - Hwa Yu T'ai Chi Long Form
72 - Chen (New Form Cannon Fist)
72 - Huang Sheng Shyan Form
73 - Sun Competition
74 - Chen (Old Frame, First Routine, Lao Jia Yi Lu)
81 - Wu (Hao) Old Form
81 - Chen Style, First Routine (Chen Fake - Hong Junsheng)
83 - Chen New Form (Chen Village)
88 - Yang Standardized (which appears to differ slightly from traditional forms of similar length)
95 - Shanghai Jianchuan T'ai Chi Association Wu Style Tai Chi Fast Form
96 - Wu (Hao) long form
97/98 - Sun Traditional Long
103 - Yang long form (The moves can also add up to 85, 88, 108 or 150 depending on how they are counted.)
105 - Fu style Tai Chi Ch'uan
108 - Taoist Tai Chi form
108 - Chen
108 - Wu Jianquan long form
119 - Wudang long
120 - Tchoung_Ta-chen - Annotated Form
140 - Lee style form
229 - Tchoung_Ta-chen - Long Form
Forms of T'ai Chi Ch'uan vary according to the creator's knowledge of Taoist Philosophy relating to Taoist Boxing (T'ai Chi Ch'uan) and preferences. Some Forms relate more to philosophic principles, some to practical Taoist Boxing, but all should contain the '13 Principles'.
There are also many variations of qigong (ch'i kung) forms associated with different schools.
Weapon forms
13 - Dong Yue (East Mountain) Combined Sword
13 - Wu Jianquan Spear (3.5 meter cavalry lance)
16 - Yang Standardized Sword
16 - Yang/Combined Standardized Spear
13 - Yang Broadsword (Dao )
18 - Chen 'Health' Standardized Sword
23 - Chen Broadsword
24 - Wu Jianquan Spear (2.5 meter infantry spear)
27 - 5 Section solo Taijijian
32 - Yang/Combined Sword
36 - Chen Shi (Chen Style) Xinyi Hun Yuan broadsword
40 - Chen Broadsword
48 - Chen Shi (Chen Style) Xinyi Hun Yuan sword
49 - Chen Sword
54 - Yang Sword
56 - Fu style tai chi seven star sword
62 - Chen Single Sword
64 - 5 Section 2 person Taijijian
92 - Wudang Single Sword
108 - Wu Jianquan Sabre (Dao)
108 - Wu Jianquan Sword (Jian)
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