Bao, you'll have to let me slide on this one - old age is tough LOL
Actually I think I have a photo copy of that book that is stuffed away somewhere in my piles - might have gotten it years back like late 80s maybe early 90s - again my memory may not be accurate but I remember in the book there was also some stance work in which one posture was one legged and the kicking foot was to the front with the foot at a 45 degree angle - I think I got the book because I learned the taijiquan qi gong that Jou Tsung Hwa taught at his Farm and I was practicing it and it came from the illustrations in the book - I'll take a look at Brennan's translation later.
I seemed to selectively remembered:
"Later, in 1943, Chen's entire copied notes appeared in book form and enjoyed rapid sales throughout China. This further infuriated the Yang family, who then released their own book claiming that Chen's publication was a forgery and that their new, smaller work was the genuine material. Chen, in typical Chinese style, claimed his book contained his own theories and that he only used the Yang family name for authenticity. This was Chinese politics at its best."
And then I personally chose to discount the authenticity of the qi gong and any of the material in that book and had already stopped practicing Jou's material in the late 80s/early 90s as I became involved with WuTan.I
I think the copy of the book I have was:
https://brennantranslation.wordpress.co ... en-yanlin/ TAIJI BOXING ACCORDING TO CHEN YANLIN
Posted on March 18, 2014 by Paul Brennan
太極拳刀劍桿散手合編
TAIJI COMPILED: THE BOXING, SABER, SWORD, POLE, AND SPARRING
陳炎林
by Chen Yanlin
[published June, 1943]
[translation by Paul Brennan, March, 2014]
I don't want to infringe on copy righted material but this is what was in the copy I had:
[PART THREE: STANCES]
TAIJI BOXING’S STANCE WORK
The SINGLE POSTURE TRAINING OF THE BASIC STAMPING KICK METHOD was I remember most because at that time I didn't think Yang style taijiquan did any type of stance work
And in PART FOUR: ENERGY-MOVING EXERCISE SET that was the qi gong set that Jou Tsung Hwa taught at the time I was at the Farm (It is also found in Jou's book)