GrahamB wrote:Isn't it hugely unsurprising that the communist Tang Hao came up with the idea of Tai Chi originated by working class peasants in the rural countryside, rather than belonging to religious groups or the intellectual elites of Beijing...? China has never had a free press - that's always worth remembering.
Isn't the name "wang Zongyue" a play on words- i.e. a coded reference to General Yue Fei?
https://thetaichinotebook.com/2020/08/1 ... represent/
Wang = King,
Zhong = Revering.
Yue = Yue Fei, either himself or his lineages/tradition (via his army).
GrahamB wrote:Yes, they were folk heroes, but also, at some point real people. As real as a communist peasant worker. In the case of Zhangsangfeng he was clearly several different real people. We talk about the spirit writing aspect, and Zhangsanfeng, in this excellent chat I had with Wudang Taoist, Simon Cox:
Well, I thought it was excellent anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWQL5WmltEk
I think we (we as people) need to get away from this Confucian-inspired (or possibly Star Wars-inspired) - direct student\teacher relationship tracing all the way back - and get more into the idea of marital arts being generated out of traditions, not by individual people.
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