GrahamB wrote:It's not just similar - it's the same document (Yue Fei's 10 Thesis), with "Taijiquan" and "Chen Chanxing" inserted into it. No offense to the Chens, but it's obviously some sort of attenpt to claim legitimatcy for an older ancestor by rebranding an old document. This wasn't published until well into the commercial period of Taijiquan (1930 and 1935). Marketing has a lot to answer for.
GrahamB wrote:Marketing has a lot to answer for.
GrahamB wrote:1919 might be the earliest publication in book form. I don't know. It was in wide circulation before that though and usually attributed to Yue Fei of the Song Dynasty, which is of course not proveable.
GrahamB wrote:You seem pissed off. I don't know why.
robert wrote:GrahamB wrote:You seem pissed off. I don't know why.
Really? I'm not.
Bhassler wrote:Anyone who is pissed off writes in all caps. Heven't you people ever internetted, before?
MiaoZhen wrote:. But we all should be aware of what serious historians are actually saying.
shawnsegler wrote:As an aside, the GuangPing Yang style I used to practice has a sequence in their form that's EXACTLY the same in one of the ZhaoBao forms.
FWIW.
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Even when Yang changed the names of his art! (creation) from their Chen origin, some of the names were substituted to represent new vision and direction.
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