Re: The Taijiquan of Chen Yanxi 陈延禧 (熙)
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 2:26 am
The Heretics podcast presents the hypothesis that what Chen Yanxi taught was "Chen family Boxing" - not Taijiquan, i.e. before anybody with the surname Chen had encountered this thing called "Taijiquan" that was taught in Beijing. It's pretty easy for an experienced (and real) martial artist to learn a form and adapt it to his way of doing things, which is what happened once the Chen people encountered Taijiquan in Beijing and realised that this was an easy way to support yourself financially.
The argument takes hours to build and is presented in audio form, and is hard to address in short discussion forum posts:
https://thetaichinotebook.com/the-history-of-taijiquan/
The argument takes hours to build and is presented in audio form, and is hard to address in short discussion forum posts:
https://thetaichinotebook.com/the-history-of-taijiquan/