6 major Tai Chi boxing sects and inheritances

The 6 major boxing schools and inheritance of Tai Chi

Yang Style Tai Chi

     Yang Style Tai Chi was created by Yang Luchan (known as Fukui, 1799-1872), a native of Yongnian, Hebei Province.

      Yang Luchan, one of the famous disciples of Chen Changxing, a famous Tai Chi master in Chenjiagou, and the seventh generation of Tai Chi successor. When Yang Luchan taught boxing in Beijing, most of his disciples were princes and nobles. They lived a luxurious life, were weak and sickly, and were not tolerated by hardships. Taking into account the physical quality and health care needs of these people, Yang Luchan changed some difficult movements in the old Tai Chi frame, such as jumping, falling fork, and shaking feet, into non-jumping, non-falling, unquicking, or shrinking the movements, making the posture simpler and soft and easy to practice. It is suitable for people wearing long gowns and braids, and is beneficial to fitness. It was later praised as "Yang Style Tai Chi".

Inheritance: Chen Wangting-Chen Ruxin-Chen Dapeng-Chen Shanzhi-Chen Bingwang-Chen Changxing-Yang Luchan

Wu Style Tai Chi

   Wu Style Tai Chi was created by Wu Yuxiang (known as Heqing, 1825-1893) from Yongnian, Hebei Province.

     Wu Yuxiang, one of the famous disciples of Chen Qingping, a famous Tai Chi master of Zhaobao, and the eighth generation descendant of Tai Chi. In the 13th year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1833 ), his fellow villager Yang Luchan returned home from Chenjiagou, Wen County, Henan Province. Wu Yuxiang liked it and often compared it to know the summary. Around 1850, Wu Yuxiang learned Zhaobao Tai Chi from him. In 1852, Wu Yuxiang personally went to Henan and studied Zhaobao Tai Chi from Chen Qingping in Zhaobao Town for forty days. He learned all the exquisiteness and received the gift of "Tai Chi Boxing Tu" after reading it. After reading it, he realized it well. After returning home, based on studying Zhaobao Tai Chi Boxing Strategy, combined with "Tai". The essence of Jiquan Book is integrated through his own experience of boxing practice. After several years of research and development, he created a new type of boxing technique that is "small and quick in circles, compact and agile, simple and skillful, clear techniques, simple and elegant in techniques, simple and elegant, dignified and free and easy", which later generations called "Wu Style Tai Chi".

Inheritance: Chen Wangting-Chen Suole-Chen Zhengru-Chen Jue-Chen Gongzhao-Chen Youben-Chen Qingping-Wu Yuxiang

Wu Style Tai Chi

   Wu-style Tai Chi was created by Quanyou (named Gongfu, 1834-1902).

     Quanyou, a disciple of Yang Banhou, a famous Yang style Tai Chi master, is known for practicing Tai Chi. The slant of the frame embodies the right, relaxed, quiet and natural , moderate in size. When pushing hands, keep calm without moving, and be good at transforming goodness. Based on his own insights in boxing practice, he revised it on the basis of Yang style Xiaojia Tai Chi. The son of Quanyou (1870-1942), also known as Aishen, was named Wu from the Han Dynasty and studied at the Bing family since he was a child. In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), Wu Jianquan taught Tai Chi at the Beijing Sports Research Society. He enriched and modified the Tai Chi he passed down from his family and went to Repeat and jumping movements, modify and shape them, form a new type of boxing that is relaxed, natural, compact, slow and continuous, neither vertical nor jumping, good at softening, and unique style. It is known as "Wu Style Tai Chi".

Inheritance: Chen Wangting-Chen Ruxin-Chen Dapeng-Chen Shanzhi-Chen Bingwang-Chen Changxing-Yang Luchan-Yang Banhou-Quanyou-Wu Jianquan

Sun Style Tai Chi

   Sun-style Tai Chi was created by Sun Lutang (known as Fuquan, 1860-1933), a native of Wan County, Hebei Province (now Shunping County, Hebei Province).

     Sun Lutang, a famous martial arts master at home and abroad in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, has always been the first-hand man in the modern martial arts world. It is said. In 1912, Sun Lutang met Hao Weizhen, a famous martial arts Tai Chi master in Beijing. Hao Weizhen passed on his experience in Tai Chi to Sun Lutang. In 1918, Sun Lutang combined Tai Chi, Xingyiquan and Baguazhang together, integrated the three schools of Tai Chi, Xingyiquan and Baguazhang, and innovated the past and the innovation. He created a new Tai Chi routine with small and light movements, high-step and movable, soft and round, light transformations, diverse movement directions, steps and steps along with each other, and the operation of opening and closing are connected, and it is a unique one. It is known as "Sun Style Tai Chi".

Inheritance: Chen Wangting-Chen Suole-Chen Zhengru-Chen Jue-Chen Gongzhao-Chen Youben-Chen Qingping-Wu Yuxiang-Li Yishe-Hao Weizhen-Sun Lutang

He style Tai Chi

He style Tai Chi was created by He Zhaoyuan (1810-1890) in Zhaobao Town, Wen County.

      He Zhaoyuan, one of the famous disciples of Chen Qingping, a famous Zhaobao Tai Chi master, and the eighth generation descendant of Tai Chi. He Zhaoyuan, based on the original boxing stance, modified the techniques, body techniques, footwork and postures in the frame, greatly increased the practical content of martial arts, and made the frame more natural and fully conform to the physiological structure of the human body. He created a set of boxing stances, push hands and loose hands as one, combining martial arts, self-cultivation and nourishment, combining martial arts, self-cultivation and health, which not only maintains the traditional and unique Tai Chi boxing tradition of Zhaobao Zhen, that is, He style Tai Chi.

Inheritance context: Chen Wangting-Chen Suole-Chen Zhengru-Chen Gongzhao-Chen Youben-Chen Qingping-He Zhaoyuan

Zhaobao Tai Chi

Zhaobao Tai Chi was created by Jiang Fa (1574～), a native of Zhaobao Town, Wen County.

     Jiang Fa is from Xiaoliu Village, Zhaobao Town, Wen County, Henan Province. At the age of 22, he practiced boxing with the villagers on Zhaobao Street. He met Wang Zongyue, a grandmaster of Tai Chi in Shanxi. Master Wang Zongyue found that Jiang Fa had good martial arts qualifications and was suitable for training. Under the sincere touch of Jiang Fa's request to become a disciple, he accepted it as his apprentice and brought it back to his home in Shanxi to train himself. After seven years of teaching by Master Wang Zongyue, he finally became a famous Tai Chi master.

Inheritance: Jiang Fa-xing Xihuai-Zhang Chuchen-Chen Jingbo-Zhang Zongyu-Zhang Yan-Chen Qingping-He Zhaoyuan-He Qingxi