Tai Chi inheritance and practice exhibition was held in Chongqing, with 600 enthusiasts showing off the beauty of intangible cultural heritage

China News Service, Chongqing, November 7 (Reporters Zhong Yi and Ying Ni) On the 7th, the "Healthy Life·Tai Chi Together" Tai Chi inheritance and practice exhibition was held in Chongqing Chaotianmen Square. 600 Tai Chi professional practitioners and enthusiasts gathered at Chongqing’s city landmark to showcase the charm of traditional Chinese sports as intangible cultural heritage.

Tai Chi is a treasure of traditional Chinese culture. In 2020, it was officially included in the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, putting this traditional oriental martial arts on the world stage. The establishment of "International Tai Chi Day" has made Tai Chi a lifestyle shared by all people.

At the scene, the scenery of the Liangjiang River and the Tai Chi performance complement each other, creating an immersive and open scene of intangible cultural inheritance and practice. Representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage from the Chen family, Yang family, Wu family, Wu family, Sun family, He family, Li family, Wang Qihe and other Tai Chi schools took the stage to lead the performance. All the personnel performed Tai Chi techniques in a slow rhythm;

Jiang Jiding, director of the Tai Chi Professional Committee of the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Association, said in his speech that this is the first time that Tai Chi performances have been included in the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Expo. Based on the core landmarks of Chongqing, the event boldly innovates the display format and adopts an outdoor collective performance mode to create an immersive and open intangible cultural heritage communication scene. At the same time, it realizes the leadership of famous experts, old and young on the same stage, and intergenerational inheritance. It fully demonstrates the characteristics of each Tai Chi school and vividly demonstrates the Tai Chi culture’s endless mass foundation and the vitality of the times.

A Tai Chi exchange symposium was also held in the early stage of the event, where representative inheritors of Tai Chi at all levels gathered to conduct in-depth discussions around the protection, inheritance, innovation and performance practice of Tai Chi.

It is reported that this event is co-sponsored by the Tai Chi Professional Committee of the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Association, Chongqing Municipal Culture and Tourism Development Committee, Chongqing Municipal Sports Bureau, and Chongqing Yuzhong District People's Government. It aims to rely on urban public spaces, break down the barriers of exhibition halls, and bring Tai Chi closer to the public.