List of Tai Chi Chuan forms

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List of Tai Chi Chuan forms, postures, movements, or positions in order of number of forms:

  • 4 - Chen (aka "5 star"), subset of Chen Old Frame (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
  • 8 - Yang Standardized
  • 8 - Chen Standardized
  • 9 - Chen Old Frame (Master Liu Yong)
  • 10 - Yang
  • 12 - Yang
  • 13 - Chen subset of Old Frame (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
  • 13 - Dong Yue (East Mountain) Combined
  • 13 - Dong Yue (East Mountain) Combined Sword
  • 16 - Yang Standardized
  • 16 - Yang Standardized Sword
  • 16 - Yang/Combined Standardized Spear
  • 16 - Chen Standardized
  • 18 - Chen 'Health' Standardized Sword
  • 18 - Chen (Grandmaster Chen Zheng Lei)
  • 19 - Chen (Grandmaster Chen Xiao Wang)
  • 23 - Chen Sabre
  • 24 - Yang ('Simplified', 'Beijing', 'New Style') Standardized
  • 32 - Combined Form
  • 32 - Yang/Combined Sword
  • 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
  • 42 - Chen (Old form cannon fist)
  • 42 - Combined Style Competition Form
  • 42 - Sun Traditional Short
  • 43 - Yang (Jiang Yu Kun)
  • 46 - Yang Competition
  • 46 - Wu competition
  • 48 - Combined forms (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.)
  • 49 - Chen Sword
  • 49 - Yang Demo/Family competition
  • 49 - Wu (Hao) short form
  • 50 - Li short form
  • 53 - Fu style advanced tai chi
  • 54 - Wu family competition
  • 54 - Yang Sword
  • 56 - Fu style tai chi seven star sword
  • 56 - Chen Competition
  • 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
  • 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
  • 83 - Chen New Form (Chen Village)
  • 88 - Yang Standardized (which appears to differ slightly from traditional forms of similar length)
  • 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 - Wu Chien-ch'uan style long
  • 119 - Wudang long
  • 120 - Tchoung - Annotated Form
  • 140 - Li form
  • 229 - Tchoung - Long Form

There are also many variations of ch'i kung/qigong forms associated with different schools.


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