90-year-old woman extends Taichi challenge to other practicers worldwide

A martial arts version of "Susan Boyle"

The slogan of the 12th Aunt is full of heroic spirit, encouraging the old people throughout the world to challenge her, and the 12th Aunt even heroically expresses that the rules are open to negotiation. The "setting of the arena" is even divided into a male version and a female version. The declaration in the challenges against the men is 'regardless if your style is Muay Thai, Judo, boxing or anything else, as long as you are no younger than 90 years old, you are welcomed to fight with me, even if you are a fighting master-hand. The rules shall be decided based on negotiation between the two parties, and I will face the fight with the attitude of "I cannot lose and I will win!" The opponent must be a real warrior and a real man! The declaration in the challenges against women is "to all younger and elder sisters over 85 years old, don't hesitate to challenge me! As long as you are dare to join the Taichi Push-hands Exercise or kumite competition (the rules will be decided by negotiation between the two parties). It will be full of an entertainment and sports spirit regardless of who wins and who loses!" Such declarations also excite the young, "how energic and powerful she is! It's too bad that I don't know Kungfu and my age disqualifies me from taking part. All I can do is silently watching the 12th Aunt." Also some Internet buddies expressed that when they found that the 12th Aunt was in such good shape, I felt pressure to exercise myself, "I hope I could be as healthy as the 12th Aunt when I am in my nineties."

She is chosen to perform at the Internet Spring Festival Gala

Her micro-blog is extremely popular, but the 12th Aunt's dream to set up a ring has not been realized because no one has answered her challenges. Having no choice, she continued to increase the promotion of the contest ring. Learning the news about the Spring Festival Internet Gala, the 12th Aunt decided to do the audition and eventually succeeded in the final recruitment.

On January 15, accompanied by her daughter, the 12th Aunt flew to Beijing to join the record of Spring Festival Internet Gala. According to Xiao Bing, the 12th Aunt's excellent performance won her two programs at the Gala. Xiao said, "The first program is Tai Chi, and the second one is a chorus by Post- N0 band, which is composed of people born in each generation. She is the representative for people over 90. She is in good form, and sings the song hand in hand with others on stage."

For the 12th Aunt, however, nothing is more attractive than her contest ring. On her micro-blog, she posted her own comments on the Spring Festival Internet Gala: "Many thanks to the netizens who supported me. Many people may not know about my contest ring because I just set the ring not long ago, please promote it for me. I'm going to the Beijing Spring Festival Internet Gala in order to find my rivals." It is a pity that even when the ring is set in Beijing and on the Gala, there is still no one competing with the 12th Aunt. Xiao Bing said, "up till now, there has been no one who has answered the challenge, and even if there were, a contest between people of such advanced ages would certainly be breaking news." Xiao Bing said that the 12th Aunt is the embodiment of the spirit of bodybuilding, "Foshan boasts Huang Feihong and Ye Wen, and I hope later people will remember the 12th Aunt."

Tai Chi Push-Hands, also known as Pushing Hands, Attacking Hands and Rubbing Hands, is a resistant exercise performed by two people barehanded. It is an outward manifestation of the Tai Chi, and the two complement each other. It can be traced back to Zhang Sanfeng (a famous martial artist) in the Northern Song Dynasty, and is about 1000 years old. Wang Zongyue (another famous martial artist) wrote explicitly in his "On Tai Chi" that: moving in harmony, the two must stay balanced while not falling down. Pushing Hands is the way to test one's boxing frame, which is the bridge between the simple boxing frame and free combat. The main methods for pushing hands are: using the arms to contact and hold up the opponent in order to set up defensive line; pushing the opponent sideways or backwards; pushing forward and constraining; pushing forwards and downward; horizontal constraining or advancing on the opponent and spinning the forearms or elbows to constrain the opponent or to advance on the opponent.