博大精深的太极文化.PDF

博大精深的太极文化 Profound Tai Chi Culture 在中国的传统文化中，太极文化具有高度的概括性和深邃的内 涵，它不但代表了宇宙的本原，也包含着天地万物产生、演变的过 程。太极图直观形象的演示，揭示了万物矛盾对立统一的辩证关系。 In traditional Chinese culture, Tai Chi is of high generality and has profound connotations; not only stands for the origin of the universe, but also implies the process of birth and evolvement of everything in the universe. The visual Tai Chi Diagram unveils the dialectical relations between diversity and unity of all things in the universe. 00 太极的内涵 Connotations of Tai Chi 极 太T a i C h i A treasure of the Chinese civilization in 太极文化是数千年中华文明的 the past thousands of years, Tai Chi is not 宝贵财富，既是关于宇宙万物的理论 only a theoretical thought about all things 思想，也是解释天地万物演化模式的 in the universe, but also a visual symbol 形象图形，将八卦、阴阳五行融会贯 used to explain the evolving modes of 通。那么，究竟什么是太极？它所代 everything in the univer se , which i s 表的深刻内涵又是什么呢？ a perfect fu sion of Bagua (the Eight Trigrams), yin-yang and Wuxing (Five 何为太极 Elements). So, what on earth is Tai Chi, and what are profound connotations of it? 什么是“太极”？从字面上理 What is Tai Chi? 解 ， “ 太 ” 即 代 表 大 ， 大 之 最 ； “ 极 ” 则 代 表 极 端 ， 是 最 初 的 意 Literally, Tai means “great, supreme” , 思 。 所 谓