MiaoZhen wrote:So, I'm sort of surprised that I just realized there are two different skills that are similarly named. I'm a Chen stylist so I'm particularly familiar with silk reeling (纏絲勁). Until just recently I embarrassingly didn't know that in Yang style they have something else named close to this (drawing/pulling silk - 抽絲勁). With some recent conversations I've seen that the people I've chatted with seem to conflate the two. But, when I went to Falk's Dictionary, she gives definitions that are clearly different.
” I'm wondering if someone has a really solid published reference from a reputable Yang stylist in Chinese that I can read that describes 抽絲勁.”
MiaoZhen wrote:Thank you Bao for those posts, I enjoyed them! They also confirm the ideas that Falk has in her dictionary under the definitions of the two terms. Just an aside, in your posts you have 纏絲精. That's a typo... Should be 纏絲勁.
Bao wrote:MiaoZhen wrote:Thank you Bao for those posts, I enjoyed them! They also confirm the ideas that Falk has in her dictionary under the definitions of the two terms. Just an aside, in your posts you have 纏絲精. That's a typo... Should be 纏絲勁.
Odd, haven't even noticed this mistake. Maybe auto-corrected some way? Anyway, thanks, I'll have a look at it.
MiaoZhen wrote:It's probably because 勁 can be jìn or jìng
... from southern China and in Cantonese the default pronunciation ends with a "g. "I've never heard any of my Beijing based Taiji aunts/uncles say "jing" (it's always "jin").
But again, excellent blog posts!
MiaoZhen wrote:Bao wrote:MiaoZhen wrote:Thank you Bao for those posts, I enjoyed them! They also confirm the ideas that Falk has in her dictionary under the definitions of the two terms. Just an aside, in your posts you have 纏絲精. That's a typo... Should be 纏絲勁.
Odd, haven't even noticed this mistake. Maybe auto-corrected some way? Anyway, thanks, I'll have a look at it.
It's probably because 勁 can be jìn or jìng (or as my Shifu pronounces is jìr). I think a lot of people pronounce it with the "g" at the end (then being a homophone with 精) partly because many teachers in the west are from southern China and in Cantonese the default pronunciation ends with a "g." I've never heard any of my Beijing based Taiji aunts/uncles say "jing" (it's always "jin"). But again, excellent blog posts!
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