Yin Yang Style Each posture has 3 Chengs and total is 24 Chengs. The Python Form Palms routine is divided into two parts and each part includes four postures. The characteristics of the Python Form Palms: turning waist and spanning arms, integrated with the soft and the hard. It is like a python coming out of a hole and writhing through the forest. The Lion Form Palms of Tian's family Yin Yang Bagua Zhang consists of eight postures: Each posture has 3 Chengs and total is 24 Chengs. The Lion Form Palms routine is divided into two parts and each part includes four
Yin and yang "to shelter; shade", and 陽 or 阳 "sunny" is always pronounced with rising second tone "yáng". Sinologists and historical linguists have reconstructed Middle Chinese pronunciations from data in the (7th century CE) "Qieyun" rhyme dictionary and later rhyme tables, which was subsequently used to reconstruct Old Chinese phonology from rhymes in the (11th-7th centuries BCE) "Shijing" and phonological components of Chinese characters. Reconstructions of Old Chinese have illuminated the etymology of modern Chinese words. Compare these Middle Chinese and Old Chinese (with asterisk) reconstructions of "yīn" 陰 and "yáng" 陽: Schuessler gives probable Sino-Tibetan etymologies for both Chinese words. "Yin"