Double broadsword
Chen-style taijiquan broadswords, are a kind of double weapons among Chen-style taiji
weapon routines, since hundreds of years, spread in Chenjiagou, is one of the oldest
double weapons routines. There are 35 postures in double broadswords routines, arrangement
is reasonable and join is compact, broadsword technique is clear and usage is vivid,
by cut, chop, sprinkle, hang, thrust, lunge, block, press, push, smear, cross, raise
the weapon horizontally overhead, circle the weapon and other broadsword techniques,
integrate Chen-style taijiquan, graceful body work, flexible and stable footwork,
make Chen-style taijiquan integrate hardness with softness, features of quickness
alternating with slowness and loose flipping, perform vividly.