照片是鄭曼青宗師與王建今總長
沈大白教授中英雙語介紹 邱敏祥教練編輯
Cheng Man Ching’s Disciple: 王建今 (Wang Jianjin)
Brief Biography
Wang Jianjin was the honorary president of the Shr Jung(時中) Tai Chi School. He met Grand Master Chen Man Ching in Sichuan at the age of 35. He learned Taijiquan from the Grand Master. After coming to Taiwan, he practiced boxing day and night. Together, he established the Sino-American Cultural and Economic Association Taijiquan in Taipei in 45 years. Committee. In 1965, he served as the honorary chairman of the Taijiquan Association of the Republic of China. He is currently the most senior student among Zheng Zi’s students. He is 103 years old and can be sane in his later years. He served as the chief inspector of the Supreme Court’s Prosecutors Office.
He once said: “Incorruptibility is my first life”, and the most important thing is reputation and integrity. Although he holds a high-ranking official position, he requires all public property, even if the sweeps are not his own, family members will never be allowed to ride in his official car, and never accept requests from relatives and friends. Handling official affairs without interference from outsiders, independent exercise of power, and official affairs, without inconvenience. Set an example in everything, discipline yourself with strictness, treat others with lenient, and the golden mean is his principle of life. Require your children to be independent, not dependent on others, and rely on their own struggle. Be honest and frugal. If you are going out, don’t publicize “My father is Wang Jianjin.”
The three key points of health preservation are: a normal life, a natural diet, and constant fitness exercise. Life is simple, not picky about food, not smoking or drinking, it is often said that plain water is the best drink. Study calligraphy every day, exercise and write poetry to relieve work pressure.
Unique Experiance and inheritance
Studying Tai Chi should consider both theory and skills. Tai Chi is the Tao, and boxing is a technique. Tao for the body and technology for use, Tao-based technology for the end, the practice but not the technique, then fall in the emptiness, is disillusioned; It is not fundamental to practice without practice. Therefore, must do double studying, and then can get its big success. Further, this is the purpose of life, technology is only the way to achieve this goal. Therefore, the study of tai chi, we must study the principle of tai chi, the road of light in life, but also supplemented by strong longevity technology, so that the Tao and technology complement each other. In this way, the highest ideal of life can be achieved. Practicing tai chi must be based on three principles: (1) The principle of symmetry. The ups and downs of each action must be consistent with the air of Dantian, so that the gas in Dantian, line on the fingers, but still belong to Dantian. A breath, is one of the interest, interest is sent in Dantian, interest is attributed to Dantian. All rely on the force of symmetry to play its work. (2) The principle of balance. The operation of the action, must be complete and complete, there must be up and down, there must be left and right, there must be before and after, there must be inside, the end is put, broken and connected, no defects, no bumps. (3) The principle of circulation. Symmetry is the ontogeny of a yin and a yang. Balance is to make yin and yang get a moderate adjustment. Circulation is to make yin and yang moderately reconcile later to obtain eternal development. All three are ready, can be said to be yin and yang together, life is endless.
Tai Chi Fist and Meditation. Tai Chi is a movement for silence. Move and yang, quiet and yin, move and calm, then yin and yang. Sitting is a quiet movement, its yin and yang are all the same. Tai Chi fist has four kinds of large frame, middle frame, small frame and no frame. An unfed tai chi is a sit-in. Therefore, tai chi and sit-in, the same source, the same law. And the effect is the same. True kung fu practicers should practice boxing and sit-in parallel, can complement each other.
右起鄭曼青宗師、石覺上將、陶炳祥老師
王建今 拳之因緣與鱗爪
王建今曾任時中學社高齡榮譽社長，他三十五歲在四川結識宗師鄭曼青，向宗師學太極拳，來台後朝夕練拳，共同於民45年在臺北成立中美文化經濟協會太極拳委員會。民65年任中華民國太極拳總會名譽理事長，是鄭子學生中目前最享高壽，高齡103歲，晚年又能神智清楚的典範。他曾任最高法院檢察署檢查總長的崇高職務。
他曾自述：「清廉是我的第一生命」，最重視的是名譽與操守。雖然擔任高階官職，但要求所有公物，即使一紙一筆一掃把不可占為己有，家人絕不允許搭乘其公務座車，也絕不接受親友請託。處理公務不受外人干涉，獨立行使職權，公事公辦，毋枉毋縱。凡事以身作則，律己以嚴、待人以寬，中庸之道是其做人原則。要求子女獨立，不依靠別人，全靠自己奮鬥，要誠實、要節儉，如果在外出事，不要張揚「我的父親是王建今」。
養生三大要訣是：生活作息正常、飲食崇尚自然、有恆健身運動。生活簡單，不挑食，不煙不酒，常說白開水是最好的飲料。每天研究書法，以運動、寫詩來紓解工作壓力。
獨到心得與傳承
研究太極拳須道技雙修。太極是「道」，拳是一種「技」。道為體而技為用，，道為本而技為末，修道而不修技，則落於空虛，是趨幻滅；修技而不修道，則失其根本。故必道技雙修，而後始能得其大成。進一步言，這是人生的目的，技不過是達到此一目的之方法而已。所以研究太極拳，必須窮究太極原理，展開人生光明之大道，而又輔以強身長壽之技術，使道與技相得而益彰。如此始可達成人生最高之理想。
練習太極須根據三種原理：（一）、對稱原理。每一動作之起落，必與丹田之氣相連貫，使氣發於丹田，行於手指，而仍歸於丹田。一呼一吸，謂之一息，息息發於丹田，息息歸於丹田。皆賴對稱之力以奏其功。（二）、平衡原理。動作之運行，必須完整圓滿，有上必有下，有左必有右，有前必有後，有外必有內，收即是放，斷而復連，無使有缺陷處，無使有凸凹處，（三）、循環原理。人之生活與生命是受著一種循環不息的原理所支配。例如呼吸、脈搏、飲食、睡眠等皆有一定之循環的規律。大而至於地球的運行，是一種循環作用，小而至於細微的能持久活動的機械，也都是一種循環作用。循環是一種物理，同時也是一種生理。人的生命，是依循環不息的作用而生存而持久。宇宙是一大循環，人生是一小循環。太極拳的動作，完全合乎人的生理需要，周而復始的循環方式，來發揮人身體固有的本能。以上三種原理，乃本乎自然之理，而用於人身者。對稱是一陰一陽的本體。平衡是使陰陽得到適度的調和。循環是使陰陽適度調和以後獲得永恆的發展。三者皆備，可以說是陰陽相濟，生生不息了。
太極拳與靜坐。太極拳是動中求靜。動而生陽，靜而生陰，動靜調合，則陰陽相濟。靜坐是靜中求動，其陰陽相濟之理全同。太極拳有大架、中架、小架與無架四種。無架之太極拳，即是靜坐。故太極拳與靜坐，理同源，行同法。而效果一致。真正練功夫者，應練拳與靜坐併行，自可相得而益彰。
1963年，在「中美文化經濟協會」內部裏再成立了「太極拳學術研究委員會」。
照片後排左起于賢文、陶炳祥、宋志堅、綦江濤、韋受之、鄺允征、李本蕃
前排左起蕭祖明、王建今、王延年、韓振聲、翁子川、盧崇善、唐君武