Yuen-Ming wrote:SCMT wrote:Followed the Yang family webpage for awhile and watched the changes, the family tree lineage chart even got changed. Also talkes with my sifu, and never said Shouhou line was doing Taijiquan and as far as my sifu knows in Hong Kong they were not, but they did exist, and I probably should not have said entire, that I do not know, only Shaohou had family there.
Zhensheng is the son I was speaking of, that Shaohou had in his late teens, and who was taken care mostly by Zhao Bin's family. He never practiced Taijiquan and later moved to west China, where he passed away pretty young.
Of course "descendants" might be in Hong Kong or even in New York City for as much as we know, but to be a blood descendant doesn't mean anything - wrt Taijiquan, which is the only thing we care about the family, that line had NO direct (family) descendants, only disciples.
YM
Tom wrote:In connection with the existence of various "animal" frames in Yang Sau-chung's teaching, a gent from Singapore, Y. Wu, who had trained a particular Shaolin style in Hong Kong wrote (back in 2006):
When I learned Yang Shaochung’s version of taiji through a friend who studied (and for a few years also lived with) with Chu Kin Hung who now teaches in London there was never any mention of animal forms. The only forms mentioned were the long form and a secret fast form. Perhaps my friend weren’t privy to the secret transmission of the 3 animal forms. Perhaps……………
Fast forward to more than a decade later and I was learning from a teacher in Hong Kong. This teacher mentioned that a long time ago (I didn’t asked for details then as I wasn’t interested to know back then) Yang Shaochung came to their school to challenge his grandmaster.
After trying conclusions (I won’t say who lost or won but the inference here is quite clear), Yang Shaochung stayed for some time to learn. How long I am sorry to say I didn’t ask also. What was interesting is that the Shaolin system that Yang Shaochung learned also emphasized on the animals of snake and crane. I was also told that there were 8 more animals and it should not come as a surprise that one of the eight animals was the tiger.
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