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Chen Style Tai Chi Nairobi Join our weekly Tai Chi classes in Nairobi with Chen Style Taiji Martial Arts Instructor today! It can also be practised with graceful slow and light movements.

Chen Style Taijiquan is the oldest and the ancestor of all contemporary tai-chi styles (Yang, Wu, Sun, Ho) originating from 16th century in Chenjiagou, Henan in China. It is characterised by low powerful stances, obvious body coiling movements, stomping and explosive releases of power. Weekly classes now being taught in Nairobi at Parklands, Lavington, Brookside and Karen. See details in our page.

01/10/2026

Silk, lattice, light.

In Suzhou’s gardens, a Hanfu doesn’t interrupt the scene. It completes it.

借景 · borrowed beauty

📍 Suzhou, Jiangsu

#汉服 #苏州园林 #借景

The Suzhou gardens (苏州园林) were never meant to be seen all at once. Each turn reveals a new scene: a moon gate framing bamboo, a pavilion half-hidden by pines, a rock shaped like a distant mountain. Even the neighbouring pagoda is borrowed (借景) as part of the view.

To walk here is to learn that stillness is not empty. It is composed.

📍 Suzhou, Jiangsu

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01/10/2026

Something special - Suzhou canals

Rendition of the beautiful Sung dynasty poem

《声声慢》
李清照 . 宋

寻寻觅觅，
冷冷清清，
凄凄惨惨戚戚。
乍暖还寒时候，
最难将息。
三杯两盏淡酒，
怎敌他、晚来风急？
雁过也，正伤心，
却是旧时相识。
满地黄花堆积，
憔悴损，
如今有谁堪摘？
守着窗儿，
独自怎生得黑？
梧桐更兼细雨，
到黄昏、点点滴滴。
这次第，
怎一个愁字了得！

Sheng Sheng Man (聲聲慢), Li Qingzhao

Searching, searching,
seeking, seeking,
the cold, the hush,
the bleak, the bruised, the aching.
This turn of weather, warm, then chill again,
is the hardest to be easy in.
Two cups, three cups of thin w**e,
what are they against
the wind that rises with the dusk?
Wild geese pass overhead,
and my heart breaks,
for they are old friends.

Gold chrysanthemums lie heaped upon the ground,
withered, spent.
Who is left to pick them now?
I keep to the window,
alone, and how am I to bear the dark?
Over the wutong trees a fine rain falls,
and on into dusk,
drop by drop by drop.
All of this:
how could one word, “sorrow”, ever hold it?

18/09/2026

静字有个争，
稳字有个急，
争时要静，
急时稳住心。
忙里有个亡，
贪字近与贫。
看淡名利得失要宽心

This is a beautiful piece of Chinese wordplay and traditional-style life wisdom.

* 静 contains 争 — stillness contains contention: when conflict arises, cultivate stillness.

* 稳 contains 急 — steadiness contains urgency: when anxious or pressed, hold yourself steady.

* 忙 contains 亡 — busyness contains loss/death: being endlessly busy can make us lose sight of what matters.

* 贪 is associated with 贫 — greed can lead toward poverty, especially in spirit.

“看淡名利得失要宽心” is essentially:

Take fame, gain and loss lightly, and keep your heart broad and at ease.

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Name: 马二猛呀

17/09/2026

家傳功夫架六封四閉用法含義，一式包含太極八法掤、捋、擠、按、採、挒、肘、靠。正統陳氏太極拳，陳發科、陳照奎、陳瑜家傳功夫架。 #陳瑜太極 #陳氏太極拳 #功夫架 #香港太極 #拆招

Chen Shi Taijiquan Gongfujia —
“Six Sealing Four Closing” (六封四閉): Applications and Meaning

One movement contains the essence of the Eight Methods of Taiji:

掤 Peng, 捋 Lü, 擠 Ji, 按 An, 採 Cai, 挒 Lie, 肘 Zhou, 靠 Kao.

The orthodox tradition of Chen-style Taijiquan, following the family-transmitted Gongfu Frame of Chen Fake, Chen Zhaokui, and Chen Yu.

17/09/2026

lyrics by Ma Er Meng

等我走到最舒服的地方
我要摘朵野花
就等风来、静待花开
人儿请慢下来
云在头顶徘徊
你也要放慢节拍
我向旷野千山之外
追寻我的自在
这一路的风景
总归要慢慢来

These lyrics by Ma Er Meng have a very quiet, contemplative, pastoral feeling.

When I reach the place where I feel most at ease,
I’ll pick a wildflower.
I’ll wait for the wind, and quietly wait for the flowers to bloom.

People, slow down a little.
The clouds linger overhead;
you, too, should slow your pace.

I gaze toward the wilderness, beyond a thousand mountains.
To seek my own unfettered ease;
The scenery along this journey—
after all, it must be taken in slowly.

The central idea is 慢下来 — “slow down.” It isn’t simply about moving physically slower; it suggests stepping away from haste, allowing nature and life to unfold in their own time.

The line “就等风来、静待花开” (“wait for the wind, quietly await the flowers blooming”) is especially poetic: it conveys patience, acceptance, and trust in the natural rhythm of things.

And “总归要慢慢来” at the end gives the whole passage its philosophy:
Whatever the journey, it is ultimately something to be lived slowly.

“以梦为马，引泣当歌；踏破红尘，山海迢阔……”

“Let dreams be my steed; let tears become my song.
I shall journey through the mortal world, across vast mountains and seas…”
- Ma Er Meng, Heilongjiang

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#谢谢马二猛

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