Re: Heretical history of Tai Chi
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 9:18 pm
robert wrote:Trick wrote:was the 'chen village' named so back in YLC's days ?(i ask because i dont know).....maybe villages was named after the most influential/prosperous/wealthy family in its area ? but surely not because the family knew an boxing excersisr ? .......however maybe all inhabitants of the 'chen village' held the name Chen, and all of them practiced boxing, and just one set of boxing around every corner of the village......a true village style?...........Ok i stop now so to not waste any investigating historians time
When Chen Bu moved in the village was named Changyang Village. Eventually the village was filled with Chen family members and it was renamed Chenjiagou. It's not clear to me when that occurred, but it's referred to as Chenjiagou when Chen Wangting is discussed. Chen Bu - 1st generation, Chen Wangting - ninth generation. If that's the case it would have been Chenjiagou when YLC was there. It's said that Chen Bu taught martial arts he had learned in Shanxi, so the martial arts of the Chen clan go back to Chen Bu.
http://www.chinafrominside.com/ma/taiji/TJQorigins.html
Thanks for that link. Interesting about the big migrations mentioned, this coincide with the settlement of the 36 Chinese families in Okinawa at that time which is mentioned in the “oldest karate Kata” thread...And according o that linked article originally in that village it actually seem to have been(or an intention to be)a “village style” since Chen Bu opened a school to teach to all that wanted to learn