China News Service, Shijiazhuang, July 13th (Li Yang Changlingshan) On the 13th, more than 70 young people practice Yang-style Tai Chi in the Yude Tai Chi Wushu Academy in Yongnian District, Handan, Hebei.

Boxer Li Lizhou said that learning Tai Chi has become a way for many students to spend their summer vacation. This year, the school added 50 young students in the summer vacation.

  At the beginning of Futian, in the urban and rural areas of Yongnian District, Handan City, the "Hometown of Taijiquan", a large number of people practiced Taijiquan and Taichi sword in squares and parks in the morning and evening. Taijiquan practice has become the local masses' physical fitness, self-cultivation and tempering. The main way to heat up.

The picture shows Tai Chi enthusiasts from Yude Tai Chi Wushu Academy are practicing Tai Chi.

Photo by Hu Gaolei

  "Push the horse step down a little bit", "This punch needs to be powerful"... Han Qingmin, the fifth-generation successor of Yang-style Taijiquan, is giving "cloud guidance" to the movements of Russian "foreign disciples" across the screen.

  Since the establishment of the Guangfu Yangluchan Taijiquan Academy in 2003, Han Qingmin has not only received a large number of domestic and foreign students every year, but also established Taijiquan branches in more than 10 cities including Guiyang, Russia, South Korea, and Germany.

In 2020, after Tai Chi was listed as a world-class intangible cultural heritage, Han Qingmin accepted more than 120 new foreign students.

Up to now, Han Qingmin has trained more than 40,000 students.

  Chen Tao, deputy secretary of the Yongnian District Party Committee and Acting District Mayor of Handan City, said that Yongnian is the birthplace of Tai Chi's revival. Practicing Tai Chi has not only become a mass fitness exercise, it has also promoted and strengthened new ideas such as boxing, tourism, and audiovisual book publishing Industry chain.

The picture shows Li Lizhou, the dean of Yude Tai Chi Wushu Academy, instructing pupils to learn Tai Chi.

Photo by Hu Gaolei

  According to the Propaganda Department of Yongnian District, Handan City, there are currently 420,000 Tai Chi practitioners in this area, and the average annual number of non-local people learning Tai Chi in Yongnian exceeds 100,000.

More than 1,000 boxers run schools in China, more than 30 famous teachers run classes abroad all year round, and a large number of Taiji boxers have embarked on the path of professional teaching.

At the same time, the integrated development model of "Tai Chi + Tourism" has promoted the development of the tourism industry into the fast lane. In the past two years, the area's comprehensive tourism income has exceeded 3.4 billion yuan annually.

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