Tai chi chuan, also spelled Taijiquan, is one of the highest forms of martial arts and health practice.

Chen style Taijiquan was created by Chen Wanting, a seventeenth century royal guard from what is known today as Chenjiagou inWenxian County, Henan Province. Shrouded in secrecy even in China until the early twentiethcentury, Chen Taijiquan is now practiced widely, not only in China and the Far East, but throughout the Western World.