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because its low impact on your body? im sure it has a long mental histery too.
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... because "it is the tree with the deepest roots and the most branches" ... there are a vast number of sub styles for all sorts of internal health, and of all the Chinese martial arts, Tai Chi is the art that takes the martial health science to the farthest limits. http://www.healing-tao.com/tao-garden/universal/en/books/ .
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Because it is sponsered and promoted by the government.
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Two main reasons -In people's republic of China, in days of cultural revolution, martial arts were forbidden. But Mao's wife was a dancer, and practised tai chi, under her influence it was allowed as a kind of gymnastic. -The tawaiwanese Chen Man Ching taught tai chi in America though his pupils weren't all chinese. It was a revolution! It made tai chi famous in US and the rest of the world.
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