Preparations have started on the application to UNESCO of Chen-style shadowboxing for the title of masterpiece of oral and intangible heritage, said a local official in central China's Henan Province.

Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese martial art originally designed as a unique self-defense technique, which later evolved into an effective health exercise. Characterized by flowing, graceful, and well ...

Chen style tai chi chuan, the original form of tai chi, was created in the 1600s by a retired general, Chen Wangting. Unlike the highly popular Yang style, which derived from it in the mid-19th ...

Stretching, bending, pushing and swirling in perfect unison and with deliberate slowness, scores of men and women, donned in white uniforms, moved as gracefully as wing-spreading swans hovering under ...