Buddha’s Warrior Pounds the Mortar
24 July 2005
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If Taijichan is closest related to Taoism beliefs, why is Buddha’s Warrior featured so prominently in both routine one and two? It appeared 4 times in Routine 1 and 3 times in Routine 2.
Few possible reasons :
- Chen Village, ChenJiaGou is in HeNan, China which is where the famous Shaolin Temple is. Therefore there was some influence of Shaolin marital arts in taijichuan. Chen WanTing the founder of Chen Style combined the various marital arts into one. Was Buddha’s Warrior Pounds the Mortar in his initial “innovation”? No one really knows.
- Maybe it is not, but through the various round of modifications and changes to the routines, this stroke, strong>Buddha’s Warrior Pounds the Mortar found its way into the routine.
Whatever it is, this stroke is not easy to master. There is a saying in Chen Village , “To know how good a person is in its taiji, just look at his Buddha’s Warrior Pounds the Mortar“. 
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The first two characters of the Chinese name for this form idomatically translate to “Golden Guard.” This is most often translated as referring to “Buddha’s Warrior” but this is inaccurate on two counts. Buddha would never have had “warriors” but rather “guards” or “attendants”. Gold is the celestial color, and hence in buddhist symbology appropriate to the ascended one. And what is being pounded is a “pestle”… as in the fist, which strikes the open hand representing the “mortar”. And early arts of Chen village included a “Long Fist” or “Long Boxing” routine descended from the Shaolin arts. There are manu other form names and Chen arts references which are derived from the Shaolin Temple, which was very close by to Chenjiagou.
hi thanks for your comment.
Others has translated into “King Kong” :p
I saw yr nice website… but no indication where are you based?
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