Chinese civilization spreads abroad with the development of Chinese economic. As part of Chinese civilization, Taijiquan is more and more popular As familiar as traditional Chinese medicine. In recent years, many scholars take the study of the relationship between Taijiquan and health preserving, but mostly limited to particular respects such as hypertension, balance feeling of old people, music, knees protection, osteoporosis, and so on. However, the relationship between Taijiquan and TCM theory is seldom studied, especially the relations between Taijiquan and the spleen (the origin of the postnatal constitution). As a fan and practitioner of TCM, the writer discovers they are closely connected, so he decides to explore and discuss the relation between Taijiquan and spleen of TCM.Based on plenty of literatures and theory evidence of spleen-stomach in TCM, practice mechanism of Taijiquan, and pithy formula of Taijiquan, this article expounds the correspondence of yin-yang and qi-blood between spleen-stomach and Taijiquan, and special function of spleen-stomach in Taijiquan and five zang-organs. In addition, this article expounds the correspondence of qi-blood of spleen-stomach and essence-qi of Taijiquan, preservation function to the origion of postnatal constitution and rehabilitation function of Taijiquan in TCM. |