Origins of the Taiji Ruler and an Introduction to Practice Methods
According to some accounts, the origins of the Taiji Chǐ (太極尺) – Taiji Ruler, also written as Tai Chi Ruler, go back to the Huangdi Neijing (黃帝內經) – The Yellow Emperor’s Classic on Internal Medicine. One theory traces the origins of the Taiji Ruler to Chen Tuan (陳摶, 871 – 989), who lived in seclusion…