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    Yang Chengfu (1883–1936) was one of the best known teachers of Yang-style tai chi Chinese martial art. He helped develop the art into its modern form...
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    practitioners. Thus, Yang Chengfu is largely responsible for standardizing and popularizing the Yang-style tai chi widely practised today. Yang Chengfu developed...
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    development to the five traditional schools: Chen, Yang, Wu (Hao), Wu, and Sun. Practitioners such as Yang Chengfu and Sun Lutang in the early 20th century promoted...
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    Yang Shaohou (Chinese: 楊少侯; pinyin: Yáng Shàohóu; 1862–1930) was a Chinese martial arts master who, along with Yang Chengfu (楊澄甫; 1883–1936), represents...
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    1897 - 1961) was a leading master of tai chi, and a top disciple of Yang Chengfu. Born in Renze (then known as Renxian), Xingtai, Hebei, China, his given...
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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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  • family legacy. Tung trained under his father Tung Ying-chieh, Yang-style Grandmaster Yang Chengfu, and several other well-known teachers, practicing the slow...
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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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    Yang Jianhou (1839–1917), who passed it to his sons, Yang Shaohou (1862–1930) and Yang Chengfu (1883–1936). Wu Yuxiang (1813–1880) who also developed...
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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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    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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    practice of Tai Chi developed during this time, led by figures like Yang Chengfu and Sun Lutang. Early proponents of Tai Chi Quan, like Sun Lutang, claimed...
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    2007. Retrieved 12 June 2009. Yang Chengfu (1931), Taijiquan Shiyongfa (Application methods of Taijiquan) Yang Chengfu (1934), Taijiquan Tiyong Quanshu...
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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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    martial artists. A son of Yang Chengfu and a great-grandson of Yang Luchan (the creator of the Yang style of tai chi), Yang Zhenduo was a fourth-generation...
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    from this posture trained by different schools. List of tai chi forms Yang Chengfu (1934), Taijiquan Tiyong Quanshu (Complete Book of the Essence and Applications...
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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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    Canada, 1992. ISBN 0-9694684-0-7 Yang Chengfu (1931), Taijiquan Shiyongfa (Application methods of Taijiquan) Yang Chengfu (1934), Taijiquan Tiyong Quanshu...
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    drifted apart by the next generation, in the early twentieth century Yang Chengfu's disciples began to publish their own versions of these texts with their...
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    He later learned Sun-style tai chi from Sun Lutang and Yang-style tai chi from Yang Chengfu. From all these styles he synthesized his own form, and balanced...
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    sought out the nearby Yang family household to learn Yang-style tai chi. There he began his martial arts studies with Yang Chengfu under the supervision...
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    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 Physical...
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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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    chi. Yang's older brother, Yang Banhou, was the senior of Jianhou's generation, and also an important tai chi instructor. Jianhou's sons Yang Chengfu and...
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    baguazhang from Fu Zhensong; xingyiquan from Sun Lutang; tai chi from Yang Chengfu; bajiquan from Li Shuwen; and the Wudang Sword techniques had come from...
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  • Neijin and Li are said to be mutually exclusive. The Taijiquan master Yang Chengfu used the concept of ‘song’ as a benchmark in his daily teaching. It was...
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  • Liu was a direct-lineage student of Yang style tai chi chuan Grandmaster Yang Chengfu, as evidenced in Yang Chengfu's first book, the Taijiquan Shiyongfa...
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    by several foreign powers, so Wu Jianquan and his colleagues Yang Shaohou, Yang Chengfu and Sun Lutang promoted the benefits of tai chi training on a...
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  • Yùkūn; 1913–1981) was a tai chi master. He was a student of Yang Chengfu, and specialized in Yang-style tai chi. Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Jiang Yukun began...
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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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