salcanzonieri wrote:Yang Lu Chan was never said to have practiced a Jian form, only the Sabre and the Staff.
Neither of his sons practiced a Jian form.
So, Chen Weiming is the source, or his book, of the Tai Chi Jian form?
wayne hansen wrote:What about the story of Ban Hous daughters death after an accident with the spear
And ban hou cutting all the spear heads off
The story of ban Hao fighting the swordsman with a calligraphy brush I thought he used sword methods to win
wayne hansen wrote:Spear techniques with a calligraphy brush
I would like to see that
nicklinjm wrote:Getting back to the original topic, the Chen style jian practiced by Hong Junsheng's students is directly from Chen Fake's daughter Chen Yuxia, who learnt it from her father in the 1930s. So it's almost certain that Chen Fake himself did practice a jian form, i.e. that particular form is not a recent invention. Not sure how the Hong branch jian form relates to that practiced in current Chen village.......
salcanzonieri wrote:hmm, the Chen version is more like the 1928 book sword form than the Yang version, which is not as fluid as the book.
So, Chen FaKe's daughter learned it in the 1930s and no one had ever seen it before it was shown in WuLin magazine, decades later.
And then it was introduced into Chen curriculum.
Hence, it can be seen that the Yang and Chen Jian forms are the same form, and the same as the 1928 book.
Chen doing Wudang? Ha.
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