<span class="chinese-post-title">歌訣二十六</span> Twenty-sixth Secret Song from the <span class="chinese-post-title">八卦掌三十六歌</span> The Thirty-Six Songs of Baguazhang

歌訣二十六

力要剛兮更要柔，
剛柔偏重功難收。
過剛必折真物理，
優柔太盛等於休。

"Power requires hardness, change requires softness,
If hardness or softness is unduly emphasized, it will be difficult to achieve results.
If there is too much strength in the movement, nature says it will be certainly broken,
If it contains too much softness, it is the same thing as ceasing the movement."

Based on the translations by 楊俊敏 Yang Jwing Ming and 梁守渝 Liang Shou You in 峨嵋八卦掌 "Baguazhang - Theory and Applications" and by Frank Allen and Tina Chunna Zhang in "The Whirling Circles of Ba Gua Zhang"