This is not a Print!
This Chinese calligraphy painting scroll is created by the disabled artist.
Approximate Measurements:
Length of Silk Scroll: 52.6" (133cm)
Width of Wooden Scroll Roller: 18.6" (47cm)
Traditional Chinese Characters
Simplified Chinese Characters & pinyin
This is the tenet of Tai chi. Promoting circulation of Qi with heart, promoting body with qi.
The slow movements of Tai Chi are graceful, powerful, relaxed, balanced, and meditative. Developed in China over a thousand years ago, this form of exercise unites the mind and the body, combining aspects of meditation, exercise, visualization, and martial art. Once learned, a Tai Chi form may take ten minutes to perform. Done once or twice daily, it provides extraordinary health benefits, improving balance, flexibility, and strength, while calming the spirit and reducing stress.
The art of Tai Chi (actually called T'ai Chi Ch'uan, "Yin Yang Boxing") consists of perfecting several skills. The most fundamental of these is the Tai Chi form, a classical series of movements which the student memorizes, much like a music student might memorize a classical piece of music. Once the movements are memorized, the real work of refining the movement can begin. The study focuses on the subtleties of relaxation, breathing, and body alignment. Movement is caused by internal pressure changes rather than muscular tension. The mind must be flexible, so the body will be supple.
With long term study, good Tai Chi takes into account not only the laws of physics, but the mysteries of the heart and mind. Fear and anxiety cause tension, which is felt in the body. If we can undo the tension, we can begin to undo the fear and anxiety. At an advanced stage, the fear associated with ego can be abandoned.
Talented Disabled Calligraphy Artist creates this 'Quote of Tai chi' Chinese calligraphy art scroll!
When I first saw a person without hands who could not only write but also became a good calligrapher, I was shocked. (photo on the left）
Disabled artist, Mr. Wang, has sat in a wheelchair more than 30 years after a catastrophic accident during fieldwork left him paralyzed from the waist down. Master Wang was gracefully moving and pausing his brush that can be mesmerizing, and there is one of his artworks on display here. (Photos on the right)
