Chenjiagou in Jiaozuo’s Wenxian county is the birthplace of Chinese tai chi chuan. Through a-life’s efforts, Chen Wangting has developed the Chen-style tai chi chuan based on a 108-move long first routine and combined the theories of Tuna (breathing) and Jingluo at the end of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) to the earlier Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

During the historical inheriting, a variety of styles of Tai Chi Chuan was derived from the Chen-style’s, like Yang-style’s, Wu-style’s and Shun-style’s.

The Chen-style tai chi chuan integrated wushu with tuna and became a Chinese martial art with both integrality and harmony between internal and external.

In 2005, the city of Jiaozuo was named “the Land of Tai Chi”by the Chinese Wushu Association in 2005. In the next year, Chen-style Tai Chi Chuan was listed one of the first batch of National Intangible Cultural Heritages. Wuxian county was named as “the Birthplace of Chinese Tai Chi Chuan” by the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Society in 2007, then a research base focus on Chinese Tai Chi Chuan culture was set up in Wuxian county. Also in this year, Wuxian county was recognized as “the Birthland of Chinese Wushu Tai Chi Chuan” by Chinese Wushu Association.

To date, there are 200 million tai chi chuan learners throughout the world, which makes tai chi chuan the top one wushu activity in the world.