The topic is one of the Ten Minutes topic series by the Foreign Languages Press, and the feature of Ten Minutes is introducing one kind of Chinese culture with brief and simple language. Each topic contains about 20,000 words, and emphasizes chapters that introduce practical manipulation to readers besides the relevant introduction to the culture. The author selects one hot topic in Chinese culture, and tells Tai-chi which is a highly esoteric subject in a clear and simple way, so readers can have a preliminary understanding of Tai-chi in the shortest time. Different actions have different health-care and body-building effects. The book is designed for universities and colleges as a textbook, also for personnel engaged in correlative work as a reference book.