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    Yang Luchan (Chinese: 杨露禅; pinyin: Yáng Lùchán; Wade–Giles: Yang Lu-ch'an), also known as Yang Fukui (1799–1872), was an influential Chinese practitioner...
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    chi. The Yang family first became involved in the study of tai chi in the early 19th century. The founder of the Yang-style was Yang Luchan, who studied...
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    completed in 1875 by Yang Luchan's son, Yang Banhou, or no later than the first decade of the twentieth century by one or more of Yang Banhou's disciples...
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    century, Yang Luchan and his family established a reputation of Yang-style tai chi throughout the Qing empire. Few people knew that Yang Luchan first learned...
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    practitioners, the son of Yang Jianhou and grandson of Yang Luchan. With his older brother Yang Shaohou and colleagues Wu Jianquan and Sun Lutang, he was...
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    was a very friendly martial artist who had also learned tai chi from Yang Luchan. Liu's friendly nature and experience with the three "internal" martial...
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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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    1870, Wu Jianquan was asked to become the senior disciple of Yang Banhou, Yang Luchan's oldest adult son, and an instructor as well to the Manchu military...
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    character. This Yang-style tai chi became known as Guang Ping Yang tai chi. Yang Luchan taught his son, Yang Banhou, the Guang Ping Yang tai chi. Yang Banhou was...
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    generation of Chen-style tai chi. He is most famous as the teacher of Yang Luchan, but there is much disagreement over which style of martial art Chen...
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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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    grandfather — the founder of Yang-style tai chi — Yang Luchan. His name at birth was Yang Zhaoxiong (楊兆熊, Pinyin: Yáng Zhàoxióng). But as was common...
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    writings with Yang Luchan, and with Yang's son Yang Banhou, who Wu tutored (probably in literacy as well as tai chi). Although the Wu and Yang lineages appear...
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    individuals Emperor Taizu of Song Yue Fei Hong Xiguan Dong Haichuan Yang Luchan Chan Heung Wu Quanyou Wong Fei-hung Sun Lutang Li Shuwen Huo Yuanjia...
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    Temple Golden Hall Purple Cloud Temple Silk reeling Daoyin Zhang Sanfeng Yang Luchan Wudang School Wudangquan "武當集團" [Wudang Group]. www.wudanglife.com (in...
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    baguazhang's frequent reference to core concepts central to Taoism, such as yin and yang theory, I Ching and Taoism's most distinctive paradigm, the bagua diagram...
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    abroad. Yin Yang-style was created by Zhao Fujiang, who combined his knowledge of baji, xingyiquan and yiquan to create a new art form. Yin-Yang is primarily...
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    translates as "taiji boxing" or "taiji fist". Early tai chi masters such as Yang Luchan promoted the connection between their martial art and the concept of...
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    individuals Emperor Taizu of Song Yue Fei Hong Xiguan Dong Haichuan Yang Luchan Chan Heung Wu Quanyou Wong Fei-hung Sun Lutang Li Shuwen Huo Yuanjia...
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    103-form Yang family tai chi, also called the Traditional Form (or, Long Form), is a prescribed sequence of moves used to practice Yang-style tai chi....
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    survived the destruction of the Shaolin Temple during the Qing dynasty. Yang Luchan (1799–1872) was an important teacher of the internal martial art known...
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    arts, the Neijia Quanfa. Beginning in 1914, Sun Lutang together with Yang Shaohou, Yang Chengfu and Wu Jianquan taught tai chi to the public at the Beijing...
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    永春五祖拳 and (2) Chua Giok Beng 蔡玉明 his Wu Zu will be refer as Wu Zu Quan Ho Yang Pai 五祖拳何阳派. Both founders created their version of Wu Zu making it about...
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    AD). Some claim the author of this qigong sequence to be Hua Tuo, however Yang Jwing-Ming suggests it was the Taoist Master Jiun Chiam and Huatuo merely...
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    Healing. Blue Snake Books/Frog, Ltd. ISBN 978-1-58394-134-8. Yang, Jwing-Ming; Jwing-Ming, Yang (1997). Eight Simple Qigong Exercises for Health: The Eight...
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    China, known for his bellicose temperament. He was the senior son of Yang Luchan to survive to adulthood. Like his father, he was retained as a martial...
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    (Wang Xiaojun) 5 - Yang 5 Step (Wang Xiaojun) 8 - Yang Standardized 8 - Chen Standardized 9 - Chen Old Frame (Master Liu Yong) 10 - Yang Introductory Form...
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    individuals Emperor Taizu of Song Yue Fei Hong Xiguan Dong Haichuan Yang Luchan Chan Heung Wu Quanyou Wong Fei-hung Sun Lutang Li Shuwen Huo Yuanjia...
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    individuals Emperor Taizu of Song Yue Fei Hong Xiguan Dong Haichuan Yang Luchan Chan Heung Wu Quanyou Wong Fei-hung Sun Lutang Li Shuwen Huo Yuanjia...
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     98. ISBN 978-1583941904. "FIGHTLAND". Vice.com. Retrieved 3 March 2022. Yang, Jwing-Ming (1995). Comprehensive Applications of Shaolin Qin Na. p. 3. ISBN 978-0940871366...
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