What kind of space is tai chi traditionally performed in?

I know that you can do tai chi just about anywhere, but in what kinds of spaces is it traditionally performed? (For example, gymnastics can be done anywhere, but is traditionally performed in a gym.)|||Tai Chi Chuan is probably the most practiced martial art in the world. Often it is done outside. In China it is common to see people of all ages from children to old people doing it outside. There is no place that it it supposed to be practiced. It is just important that those that practice it do practice.








...|||Actually, gymnastics was traditionally done outdoors. It was only when it was brought indoors that we have the word "gym".





Tai-chi-chuan like most martial arts were typically practiced outdoors and usually on a relatively flat surface. In ancient times, large indoor training facilities were rare - remember no air conditions so it gets very hot and humid in the summer and since heating by open flame a large indoor structure would be very expensive and a fire hazard, training would be done outdoors.





In time, the packed earth or grass would be paved with stone or brick to allow training after it rains so the ground would not turn to mud, but essentially Tai-Chi-Chuan was and still is practiced outdoors.|||Tai chi acquired this name in the 1800's. Previously it was simply an unusual martial art practised by a little known clan in a small, remote village in Henan province (like hundreds of other martial arts lost to history). The Art was not taught to outsiders as such isolated clans used their family martial art skills to defend their villages from bandits and, in the case of Chen Village, to gain employment as bodyguards to wealthy merchants.


So the "traditional" space would have been in a remote village, hundreds of years ago. where the only place to practice would have been outside.|||It was traditionally practiced on dirt. It helps develop ur balance and stability.

If u can practice on uneven dirt with rocks and tree roots u wont have a problem practicing anywhere else. Concrete wasnt even invented back then.