Excerpt from an essay by Chen Xiaowang:
The old fist manuals say "yi and qi are the monarchs, bone and muscles are the vassals". The relationship between internal qi and muscles is the same as the relationship between detonators and explosives. A detonator's explosive ability doesn't have a lot of explosive power (the majority of the explosive power comes from the explosives themselves), but explosives without a detonator to cause the explosion won't work. Not using the proper proportion also prevents the full force of the explosives from working.
If, while practicing Chen Taijiquan, there is diu ding ("losing" and "butting"), limbs mutually contradicting each other, strengths mutually canceling each other out, and internal qi not linked up, the power sent out will be withered broken power (just as when the proportion of detonators and explosives is not correct, the explosives won't be able to explode completely).
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