Shen Jiazhen’s eight unique features of Taijiquan

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Re: Shen Jiazhen’s eight unique features of Taijiquan

Postby Bao on Wed May 13, 2020 2:07 am

Have seen it before. Looks like basics made overly complicated. Shen Jiazhen was a Chen style teacher, so this should be the very basic requirements for Chen style form practice.

Taijiquan today is mostly about form, form, form. Eight unique features of Taijiquan? Maybe "eight unique features of Modern Chen style Taijiquan Large Frame form practice" would be more adequate? The long overly complicated name would match its substance.
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Re: Shen Jiazhen’s eight unique features of Taijiquan

Postby Yeung on Wed May 13, 2020 11:02 am

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Re: Shen Jiazhen’s eight unique features of Taijiquan

Postby Yeung on Wed May 13, 2020 11:11 am

Shen Jiazhen went to Beijing after 1912 but when he started to learn Taijiquan from Yang Jianhou is not known, he learnt theory from his son Yang Chengfu after 1922, and he learnt from Chen Fake since 1928 in Beijing. He retired in 1957 and published his book in 1963. He was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and passed away in 1972. He did not appear to have any student.
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Re: Shen Jiazhen’s eight unique features of Taijiquan

Postby Bao on Wed May 13, 2020 2:48 pm

Yeung wrote:Shen Jiazhen went to Beijing after 1912 but when he started to learn Taijiquan from Yang Jianhou is not known, he learnt theory from his son Yang Chengfu after 1922, and he learnt from Chen Fake since 1928 in Beijing. He retired in 1957 and published his book in 1963. He was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and passed away in 1972. He did not appear to have any student.


Thanks for the info. Interesting.
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Re: Shen Jiazhen’s eight unique features of Taijiquan

Postby jbb73 on Fri May 15, 2020 3:18 am

I think portions of it are translated in (or art the basis for) the german book "Theorie und Technik des Taijiquan" from Ute Engelhardt (1993).
There also exists a Japanese translation.
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