Yin Yang Style includes four postures. The characteristics of the Snake Form Palms: coiling and drilling power, mixing the hard and the soft. The movements are like a snake wandering and darting fangs. The Horse Form Palms of Tian's family Yin Yang Bagua Zhang consists of eight postures: Each posture has 3 Chengs and the total is 24 Chengs. The Horse Form Palms routine is divided into two parts and each part includes four postures. The characteristics of the horse form palms: the movements are bold and uninhibited, like a wild horse bucking and rushing. The Monkey Form Palms of Tian's family Yin
Yin Yang Style origin of this style occurred when the Chinese ancestors combined the "Book of Changes" (易经) with the Yin Yang truth. Following the Eight Trigrams, they observed the actions of animals and environmental changes. Tian family's Yin Yang Bagua Zhang was created from these observations being studied and practiced over several generation. The practice routines is divided into eight forms: Python, Lion, Tiger, Bear, Snake, Horse, Monkey and Eagle. "Ba" means eight, "Gua" means form, and "Zhang" means palm. One "Zhang" palm is divided into eight postures. Each posture is divided into three different "Cheng" movements. The total is one hundred