Which masters wrote Books in Bagua ?

[AL2016]

Did master Cheng ting hua write Books ? Other great masters ?

[robert]

There's the Liang Zhenpu book, by Li Ziming. It has a lot of the old bagua songs and sayings in it.



https://www.amazon.com/Liang-Zhen-Eight-Diagram-Palm/dp/1883175003

[Daniel-san]

There's also 'Pa-kua Chang for Self-defense' by Lee Ying-arng and Yen Te-hwa.

[Bob]

Any material published by Tom Bisio is worth reading

[Taste of Death]

There is the Pa Kua Chang Journal (38 issues).
http://www.pakuachangjournal.com/

[Daniel-san]

The Study of Bagua Quan, by Sun Lu-tang.

[wiesiek]

Park Bo Nam described Lu Shu tien`s teaching in two books.

[AL2016]

Master Cheng ting hua didn't write Books?

[wiesiek]

no
probably painted couple marks

happy new year

-joint-

[Bob]

It may be possible that many bagua masters were illiterate so there would be someone else "Ghost Writing" them as over 90% of the Chinese population was most likely illiterate at that time.

[edededed]

Some of the early masters who wrote books included:

Sun Lutang (Cheng style; disciple of Cheng Tinghua)
Sun Xikun (Cheng style; disciple of Cheng Youlong)
Ren Zhicheng (Yinyang bapanzhang)
Yin Yuzhang (Yin style; son of Yin Fu)
Cao Zhongsheng (Yin style; disciple of Yin Fu)
Jiang Rongqiao (Cheng style; disciple of Zhang Zhaodong)
Yan Dehua (Cheng style; disciple of Zhou Yuxiang)
etc...

Early modern times had many new authors, like:

Li Ziming (Liang style; disciple of Liang Zhenpu)
Liu Xinghan (Cheng style; disciple of Liu Bin)
Zhang Lie (Yin style; disciple of Chi Shixin)
Etc.

Of course there was an explosion of more books after that...

[Doc Stier]

Martial art books on any style certainly have their place, particularly as reference works related to whatever we personally practice, but they can never replace live instruction from a competent teacher with expert hands on skills.

[Peacedog]

Alex Kozma published a variety of books on the topic and at least one by He Jing Han. I have no idea if any of those are still available, but I remember the ones by He Jing Han being especially good.