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Chen Style
Tai Ji Quan
 

Chen’s style Tai Ji Quan had been known in Beijing gradually. From the end of Qing dynasty on, people playing Tai Ji Quan in Beijing were mainly rich. Just as Xu Yusheng said, in the early years, Beijing plebs called Tai Ji Quan as “the boxing for pulmonary disease”, that was the general understanding of Tai Ji Quan—the Quan skills for fitness in preserving one’s health. The grand ultimate body motion is an art enabling fluid movements to emerge from perfect body alignment and equilibrium. The flux of the universe's energy becomes channeled through the practictioner promoting optimum health.

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Chen Style Tai Ji Quan spread throughout the worldand is thought to be inherited from Chen Fa-ke. Even being founded by him, Chen’s Tai Ji Quan has been distinguished within Quan Jia (movements)Tai Ji Quan and the understanding of Tai Ji Kung-fu between his disciples and their later generations. Due to their different social background, personalities, living experiences and their practicing tastes. These distinctions have been reflected in their various Kung-fu, Tai Ji patterns and Tao Lu (set or sets of Tai-Ji movements) obviously not becoming greater among the later generations of his disciples, further reflecting how to understand Tai Ji’s concept, how much they had loves boxing or how to understand the Tai Ji Shi San Shi (classical thirteen patterns of Tai Ji). ChenTai ji4-style Tai Ji had rejuvenated within the period from the late 1970s to early 1980s, being practiced by adults in their 30s in Chen Jia Gou, He’nan Province. Hoping to follow the social trend of Tai Ji Quan’s development that the nation has feveriously reemphasized, and to hold some eminent positions in the Kung-fu field, they had practiced the Quan a lot at that time. People here an there with other surnames instead of Chen have been inheriting and elaborating Chen’s Tai Ji Quan respectively,trying to break a new path for the Quan. They have been making great efforts to perfect Tai Ji or contributing to popularize the Quan as a kind of preserving health exercise, though they have got the original connotation differently. When Chen Fa-ke came to Beijing initiating his Chen’s Tai Ji Quan (shadow boxing) in 1928, Hong Junsheng, Liu Musan and some others were his disciples within the early period. In the years from late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, most people in Beijing only knew the Mian Quan (soften boxing) and Hua Quan(melting boxing) set up and thought by Yang Luchan but did not know anything about Chen’s Tai Ji Quan. After Chen Fa-ke had come to Beijing, his valuable soft boxing was quite conformed with the Tai Ji Quan developed by Yang Luchan. According to Yang’s successor, Tai Ji Quan was succeeded by people from Chen’ place. A number of people in Beijing had been respecting Chen Fa-ke very much from then on. In those years, there were many people who played a lot of schools of various Quan in Kung-fu circles in Beijing. They had seen Chen Fa-ke’s Quan skills. After that,

Masters like Yang Luchan and Chen Fa-ke had practiced Tai Ji Quan skills as real Wu Gong(Kung-fu), but Chan Quan(twisting boxing), Mian Quan an Hua Quan were the special styles played slowly being very fit for the people as athletic sports. Due to these reasons while, these masters as Yang Luchan and Chen Fa-ke taught their disciples Tai Ji Quan in cities, they used to have different ways in teaching various people Kung-fu. In case disciples wanted to learn Wu Gong, masters would do them the favor. If people wanted to keep fit merely, masters would do them the favors. If people wanted to merely keep fit , masters would teach them the slower styles of Tai Ji getting spread all over mainland China as well as the world till now. The skills of the successors of Yang and Chen were quite different. As one of the disciples of Chen Fa-ke’s Tai Ji Quan, Hong Junsheng was the famous one of the representatives of Wu Gong.

Hung Junsheng was born in 1906. When he had been learning Tai Ji Quan from Chen Fa-ke in 1930, he learned it as” the boxing for pulmonary disease” at the very start. Having had his rudimental practices and understanding of Tai Ji Kung-fu, Hong Junsheng had understood its essence and fully respected Chen Fa-ke’s Kung-fu he had followed Chen Fa-ke in learning Tai Ji Quan for fifteen years. According to He Shungan as one of the disciples of Hung Junsheng in early years, that “Master Hong invited Chen Fa-ke home and lived together following Master Chen for seven years. “ This fact could prove Hong Junsheng’s decision in learning Tai Ji and could show his full respect to his master.

   

 

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