What is the history of Tai Chi Chuan? Village or soldier orientated?

Especially the Chen and other major schools?|||Chen Style Taijiquan is the original style of Taijiquan from which all others are descended. It was indeed created by a retired general and kept in the Chen Family. It wasnt until the 1800s that it was taught outside of the village. Thats when Yang Style popped up and so on. Yang Style also started the "health exercise BS" to rip people off

The origins of Taijiquan is a subject people argue about but Chen Jia Cao has historical proof that it was created there.|||Although there is some debate, all five major schools of Tai Chi (Wu, Chen, Yang, Sun, Wu) agree with CTC's assessment that their Tai Chi originates from Chen Village. Where it originates from before Chen Village is more open to debate, and some speculate a Taoist source.





The idea that Tai Chi comes from Shaolin has no historical basis as far as I know of, and this is the first time I heard of it.|||If you actually studied the different histories, you'd lose your mind.





But if you watch the masters, you can see it evolved from Emperor's Long Fist and it was indeed perfected at Shaolin Temple, which is why there were originally so many styles of Tai Chi.|||It's a little known website called WIKIPEDIA