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History of Tai Chi |
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The Chen style of Tai Chi was the forerunners of the art, but it was the
Yang style that made it in the limelight.
The true history of Tai Chi was never known. The fact that the art is as old
as the Chinese heritage itself has the history of Tai Chi shrouded in legend
and mystery.
Birth of the Yin and Yang
The wise sage Chang San Feng had a dream one night. In his dream he saw two
creatures battling, a crane and a snake. He was so enthralled by the sight
for the combatants had fought with so much skill, yet neither one could gain
the upper hand. He had this dream every night that he managed to learn the
techniques and made the famous 13 postures of Tai Chi. The creatures were
then symbolized as the teardrops of the Yin and Yang, symbolizing the
infiniteness of the opposite powers.
Chang San Feng’s martial art technique was subsequently named Tai Chi Chuan.
The insight of this new radical martial art expresses these principles: use
calm against action, soft against hard, slow against fast, and single
against group. These principles opposed the current teachings of the era and
thus attracted a considerable crowd.
The Chen Style
In later parts of the history of Tai Chi, a monk named Wang Chung-Yueh
mastered the 13 postures and linked them into a continuous sequence, forming
what resembled today the contemporary forms of Tai Chi Chuan. Chiang Fa,
Wang Chung-Yueh’s student, later passed this knowledge to ChenYou-Heng, who
further developed the technique into a new frame style, and was called the
Chen Tai Chi. Chiang Fa has 3 students, Chen You-Heng, Chen Chang-Hsing, and
Chen Yao-Pun, all of which started their corresponding schools of
discipline.
The Yang Style
Chen Chang-Hsing combined the Chiang Fa’s Tai Chi with the Cannon Pounding
form. He then taught Yang Lu Chan who, in turn, started the Yang style of
Tai Chi. Yang Lu-Chan became very famous and skilled and was later known as
‘Yang the Unsurpassed’ or ‘Yang the Invincible’. The Yang style of Tai Chi
spawned a long lineage of skilled and distinguished martial artists like the
19th century master Yang Cheng Fu, Lu Chan’s grandson, who was responsible
for bringing Tai Chi to the rest of the world and has contributed much to
the history of Tai Chi. The Yang style is the most common traditional Tai
Chi practiced today, boasting the most complete Tai Chi, having the
simplified form, the short form and the long form.
The Wu Style
Wu Quan-Yu, a student of both Yang Lu-Chan and Yang Pan-Hou taught Wu Quan-Yu.
He became an adept to the art, and took on students, including his sons.
This passed his style and later branched away as an independent style of Tai
Chi known as the Wu style. |
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