Chenjiagou and the Taijiquan Heritage

Chenjiagou lies five kilometres east of Wenxian County town, on the Qingfeng ridge, and the Jiaozuo municipal government calls it the birthplace of Chinese taijiquan, the first national intangible cultural heritage item of that name. The scenic area groups the ancestral hall, the ancestral grove, the place where Yang Luchan studied, the Chen Zhaopi tomb, the Donggou boxing ground, the taijiquan museum, and the Chinese Taijiquan Culture Park. The China Intangible Cultural Heritage network records that the practice formed in Chenjiagou village in the middle of the seventeenth century, and that Chen Wangting of the Chen family is credited with compiling it. UNESCO inscribed taijiquan on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2020, under decision 15.COM 8.b.21.