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:

[edit] Hand forms

4 - Chen 4 Step is a subset of Chen Old Frame One (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
8 - Yang Standardized
8 - Chen Standardized
9 - Chen Old Frame (Master Liu Yong)
10 - Yang
12 - Yang
13 - Chen (aka Five Element Chen) subset of either Old Frame One or Small Frame (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
13 - Dong Yue (East Mountain) Combined
13 - Wudang (Zhang SanFeng - Wudang Nei Jia Quan) - Shi San Shi
16 - Yang Standardized
16 - Chen Standardized
16 - Actually Chen 4 Step (see above) popularly repeated in four directions of the compass (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
18 - Chen (Grandmaster Chen Zheng Lei)
18 - Wudang (Zhang SanFeng - simplified new form)
19 - Chen (Grandmaster Chen Xiao Wang)
20 - 5 Section Taijiquan (Yang Simplified)
20 - 5 Section Chen Taijiquan (Chen Simplified)
20 - Simplified form of Chen Xiaojia (Small frame of Chen T'ai Chi Ch'uan)
24 - Yang ('Simplified', 'Beijing', 'New Style') Standardized
24 - Chen Shi (Chen style) Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan (24 Form by Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang)
24 - Zhao Bao
28 - Wudang Taiji
32 - Combined Form
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)
43 - Zhao Bao
46 - Yang Competition
46 - Wu competition
48 - Combined (list of) denotations and illustrations (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.)
48 - Chen Shi (Chen style) Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan (48 Form by Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang)
49 - Yang Demo/Family competition
49 - Wu (Hao) short form
50 - Li short form
53 - Fu style advanced tai chi
54 - Wu Jianquan family (Wu Daxin) competition form
56 - Chen Competition
56 - Zhao Bao
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
67 - Hwa Yu T'ai Chi Long Form
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
81 - Chen Style, First Routine (Chen Fake - Hong Junsheng)
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 - Chen
108 - Wu Jianquan long form
119 - Wudang long
120 - Tchoung_Ta-chen - Annotated Form
140 - Li form
229 - Tchoung_Ta-chen - Long Form