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    Yang Jianhou (1839–1917), or Yang Chien-hou, was the younger son of the founder of Yang-style tai chi Yang Luchan, and a well known teacher of the soft...
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    Sun-style tai chi. Yang Jianhou passed on the middle frame long form, sometimes called the 2nd generation Yang form or the Yang Jianhou form, to his disciples...
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    spread Yang-style tai chi around the world. Yang Chengfu was born into the famous Yang family of tai chi practitioners, the son of Yang Jianhou and grandson...
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    family. Yang Banhou became the highest paid teacher of Wu Quanyou even though Yang Luchan was Wu's first tai chi teacher. His third son Yang Jianhou (1839–1917)...
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  • Taiwan where he became a disciple of Cheng Man-ch'ing. Yang Chengfu as the grandson of the Yang style founder, had been Cheng Man-ching’s teacher. Huang...
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    fighter and a demanding teacher. Yang began learning tai chi at age 7, in Beijing under his father Yang Jianhou, his uncle Yang Banhou (who formally adopted...
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    taught martial arts by his father, Wu Quanyou, a senior student of Yang Luchan, and Yang Banhou. Both Wu Jianquan and his father were hereditary Manchu cavalry...
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  • founder of the Yang style. He passed this special style to his son Yang Jianhou who transmitted it to his student Zhang Qinlin. Master Wang Yen-nien was...
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    inner-door students of Yang Banhou. Yang Banhou was the son of the originator of what has become known as Guang Ping Yang tai chi: Yang Luchan (born Guangping)...
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    one of the five main styles of tai chi. It is second in popularity after Yang-style, and the fourth-oldest of the five major tai chi styles. It was developed...
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  • had been a disciple of Yang Chengfu, and later a family member as he married Zou Kuei Cheng, the great-granddaughter of Yang Chien-hou. Fu Zhongwen was...
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    chi. Yang Banhou's younger brother Yang Jianhou was a well known teacher of Yang-style tai chi as well. Banhou adopted Jianhou's eldest son, Yang Shaohou...
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    master Yang Chengfu (1883–1936), with whom he began to study Yang-style tai chi, until Yang died. While the exact dates of Cheng's study with Yang are not...
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    Yang Shouzhong, born Yang Zhenming, (1910–1985) was the eldest son of Yang Chengfu and a teacher of his family's Yang style of tai chi. He is also known...
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    father, Yang Jianhou. During the initial years of Zhang’s training with Chengfu, he was only taught the publicly known elements of the Yang style disseminated...
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    (1991) Unique Publications . ISBN 978-0-86568-147-7 Yang Jwing-Ming Tai Chi Secrets of the Yang Style: Chinese Classics, Translations, Commentary (2001)...
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  • William Chi-Cheng Chen is a Grandmaster of Yang-style tai chi who currently lives in the US. His school is in New York City and he has hundreds of students...
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    Yang Zhenduo) and a grandson of Yang Zhenduo, he is a direct descendant of Yang Chengfu and of Yang Luchan, the creator of Yang-style tai chi. Yang Jun...
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  • bagua. He then began to study tai chi with Yang Chengfu (1883–1936), grandson of Yang Luchan, founder of the Yang family lineage. In 1925, Chen moved to Shanghai...
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    family. 1st Generation Wu Quanyou (1834–1902), who learned from Yang Luchan and Yang Banhou, was senior instructor of the family from 1870-1902. 2nd generation...
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    YANG-STYLE (王蘭亭) Wang Lanting 1840–? 2nd gen. Yang Yang Jianhou 1839–1917 2nd gen. Yang 2nd gen. Yangjia Michuan Yang Banhou 1837–1892 2nd gen. Yang 2nd...
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    YANG-STYLE (王蘭亭) Wang Lanting 1840–? 2nd gen. Yang Yang Jianhou 1839–1917 2nd gen. Yang 2nd gen. Yangjia Michuan Yang Banhou 1837–1892 2nd gen. Yang 2nd...
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    YANG-STYLE (王蘭亭) Wang Lanting 1840–? 2nd gen. Yang Yang Jianhou 1839–1917 2nd gen. Yang 2nd gen. Yangjia Michuan Yang Banhou 1837–1892 2nd gen. Yang 2nd...
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  • a Chinese contemporary artist and painter. He is the chairman of the Yang Jianhou Foundation and a member of Arts Mid-Hudson. In 1986 and 2002, Pan was...
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    wished to study under Yang Luchan, the tai chi instructor for that banner camp, but he was still a middle grade officer and Yang refused to teach him....
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  • 1919–2004) was a Chinese teacher of Wu-style tai chi. He was a student of Yang Yuting and Wang Maozhai. Although most famous for his tai chi, Wang began...
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  • a disciple of Yang Jianhou.[citation needed] Tchoung Ta-tchen also studied with Hsiung Yang-ho, who was one of the few disciples of Yang Shaohou.[citation...
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    Yang Luchan 1799–1872 YANG-STYLE Guang Ping Yang Yangjia Michuan (王蘭亭) Wang Lanting 1840–? 2nd gen. Yang (杨健侯) Yang Jianhou 1839–1917 2nd gen. Yang 2nd...
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    he and his brother were taught by Yang Shaohou, who was technically a generation senior to their father. Both Yang Shaohou and Wu Jianquan were famous...
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    Vancouver. 1st Generation Wu Quanyou (1834–1902), who learned from Yang Luchan and Yang Banhou, was founded Wu-style tai chi and was its senior instructor...
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