(Turn) Why is Yang Luchan's Tai Ji Chuan very different from Chen Gou's Tai Ji Chuan?
In the past, people always thought that Yang Luchan changed Chen Changxing's passing of his fist and became a school of his own. That's because, since Tai Ji Chuan, a teacher in Chengou, wrote books in succession and taught Tai Ji Chuan everywhere in the 192s and 193s, people found that its action form and action name were quite different from Tai Ji Chuan's action and action name that Yang Luchan, who entered Chengou three times to study art in Chen Changxing during the light years of the Qing Dynasty, passed on in Beijing. Chen Gou's Tai Ji Chuan and action names are similar to those of Tongbei Boxing, and like Tongbei Boxing, it takes the word "entanglement" as its soul. Yang Luchan's biography of Tai Ji Chuan, on the other hand, emphasizes the integrity and does not make any moves. However, the names and sequences of the thirteen moves of Tai Ji Chuan in Tai Ji Chuan Spectrum discovered by Wu Yuxiang, the founder of Wu Tai Chi, in the salt shop of Wuyang during the Xianfeng period are the same as those of Yang Luchan, but quite different from those of the thirteen moves of Tai Ji Chuan recorded in Chen Gou's modern boxing spectrum, which shows that the boxing frame passed by Yang Luchan has its origin, and it is not a self-created boxing. Then, is there any other circumstantial evidence besides the Tai Ji Chuan Spectrum discovered during the Xianfeng period of Wu's reign, which proves that Yang Luchan's boxing frame is the original boxing frame? At the beginning of this century, in 24, Li's genealogy in the 55th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi and Tai Ji Chuan's Spectrum in the Qianlong period were discovered in Tangcun, Bo 'ai County (formerly known as "Hanoi County") adjacent to wen county, which was much earlier than the boxing spectrum of Tangcun in Tai Ji Chuan's Spectrum discovered by Wu, and the names of the thirteen movements of Tai Chi were the same as those of Yang Luchan's boxing frame, which completely confirmed that Yang Luchan's boxing frame was primitive. In Li's genealogy, it is clearly recorded that Li Chunmao, the eighth ancestor of Li, Li Zhong, Li Xin and Chen Zouting, the nephew of Chen Gou, were all apprentices in Taiji Palace, the third shrine of Qianzai Temple next to Tang Village, and they learned "Thirteen-potential boxing, sword, knife, gun, arrow art, infinite health-keeping exercises, through-back boxing and spring and autumn knives". On the other side of Taiji Palace, Wang Zhongjin, the ninth ancestor of Wangbao Village, also learned thirteen potential fists and liuhe gun sticks from Taoist priests in Taiji Palace. According to Li's genealogy, boxing spectrum and Wangbao gun spectrum, the teachers of Taiji Palace at that time were Bo Gongchang and Dong Binggan. It can be seen that there is no doubt that the thirteen potentials of Wangbao, Tangcun and Chengou in the late Ming Dynasty came from the Daomen. So, are the Thirteenth National Congress and Tai Ji Chuan two different things? Chen Gou's old boxing score explains this: "Tai Ji Chuan, a thirteen-potential, a thirteen-fold". The people in Chengou clearly stated that the Thirteen Potential was Tai Ji Chuan, which was consistent with what Yang Luchan and his descendants and disciples said in Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. In other words, Tai Ji Chuan or thirteen potential was not created by Chen Zouting, but by Chen Zouting who learned from the gate of Taiji Palace in the late Ming Dynasty (after entering the Qing Dynasty, Chen Zuoting also created thirteen potential from Jiang Fashen). Yang Luchan taught art in the capital, and his disciples did not worship Chen Zuoting as their ancestors when they visited the gate, which was a martial arts tradition of following the teacher's footsteps. However, it is a despicable act to describe Chen Zuoting as the founder of Tai Ji Chuan in contemporary times, which deceives teachers and destroys ancestors, deceives the world and steals fame, and loses morality. Since Yang Luchan's income from Changxing Gongguan is the original Taoist version of Tai Chi, and at the same time, it has never been recorded that Yang Luchan changed his boxing frame (except his son Jian Hou and Sun Chengfu), is there any record in history that Chen Gou people changed their boxing frame? The answer is yes. According to Chen Gou's boxing spectrum, Chen Youben, a member of the Chen clan who is the 14th Chen (Tai Ji Chuan VI) with Changxing Gong, once created a "Chen Youben small frame", also known as a "new frame". Later, Chen Gengyun in the 15th and Chen Fake in the 17th changed to create boxing frames. This explains why the boxing movements and names of modern Chen Gou Tai Ji Chuan and Yang Luchan are different. Obviously, Changxing Gongchuan Yang Luchan's boxing frame was originally handed down by his ninth ancestor, Chen Zouting, from Taoism, while Chen Youben and Chen Gengyun's Chen Gou Tai Ji Chuan, which was changed from Tai Ji Chuan's thirteen potentials, was combined with Tongbei Boxing, and may have been created with reference to Qi Jiguang's "Thirty-two Potential Long Boxing", which was not originally handed down to Tai Ji Chuan by Taoism. (Author's press: Xu Zhen said in his "Textual Research Record of Tai Ji Chuan" that his collection of Chen Gou's old boxing spectrum contains many chapters such as Qi Jiguang's "24-gun marksmanship" and "32-potential long boxing". The author infers from the "Sidenote" of "Rushing into the Red Gate" in the "Twenty-four Guns" that Qi's works are likely to be brought to Chen Gou by Chang Naizhou, and Chang had an exchange with Chen Jixia, the third generation of Tai Ji Chuan in Chen Gou. So, why did Chen Youben change his fist? According to the book "Jiaozuo Wushu", in Chen Changxing, Chen Gou had two sets of boxing stands besides Tongbei Boxing. The author thinks that these two sets of boxing stands are the "big spread stand" and "small spread stand" that Yang Luchan passed on when he went to Beijing. There are a lot of scholars in Chen Gou, and Chen Youben, who is not directly affiliated with Chen Changxing, has also learned Tai Chi's thirteen-power rumor and Tongbei Boxing. At the same time, he has naturally heard of the "small biography", but he can't see it. Changxing Gong doesn't show people easily. When he was in Beijing with his disciple Yang Luchan, although there were many disciples and students, he never showed the small biography except teaching the big biography. Since Chen Youben couldn't learn and couldn't see the small pass, he decided to create a small pass, namely Chen Youben's small pass. Since then, Chen Gou Tai Chi and Taoism originally spread the thirteen potentials of Tai Chi, and they parted ways. Why did Chen Gengyun change his fist? In principle, if Chen Gengyun gets the "small pass", he will feel that it is unnecessary to create the original Taoist boxing, which shows that he has not got the original "small pass" from his father Changxing Gong. This is not surprising. P124 of Jiaozuo Martial Arts said that Chen Zuoting's boxing skills were not passed on to his three sons: You Wei, You Bi and You Wen, but passed on to his nephew Ruxin, who was enjoyed by a family nephew. Chen Suole's successor, Chen Ru, is not the son of Joy, just as his successor, Chen Jixia, is not a father and son or an uncle. Uncle Bingqi, Uncle Bingren and his father Bingwang of Changxing Gong are not the sons of Jixia, but Jixia is their uncle, and his boxing skills mainly come from his second uncle Bingren. . . This shows that the tradition of "passing on a small shelf from Taoism to others" has a long history in Chen Gou at that time, and it is easy to understand that Chen Gengyun was not passed on by his father. Another possibility is that Chen Gengyun learned his new boxing from Chen Youben and changed his own boxing, but he was too busy to pass on his own boxing, so he died. For example, after Yang Yang Chengfu changed his own boxing into his own boxing, and Wu Gongyi changed his own boxing into his own boxing in Huangpu Military Academy, he was too busy to promote it and died before the preacher passed on his own boxing. The descendants of these two men failed to learn. According to "Chen Family Ride", Chen Huamei, the 15th Chen family, wrote "Hezhai, who studied in Changxing, has a very pure merit, is a child of Wuchang and Wudian, and can abuse his profession. His master Chen Xi fought against Guangdong bandits from Zhongsheng". Like Chen Gou's ancestors in previous generations, it is very likely that Changxing Gong chose Chen Huamei, a nephew of his family, to teach him, and also passed on the Taoist "little biography" to him. Unfortunately, this descendant of Chen Huamei has been extinct. Chen Gengyun didn't get the original "small pass", and saw that Chen Youben created a new "small pass", so he went to have this study (later, Chen Qingping, a descendant of Zhao Bao and Zhang Yanzhi, also went to have this study). Maybe after learning Chen Gengyun, he felt that he could create a better one, so he also created a boxing fight, that is, Chen's big fight all the way. This is the source of Chen Tai Chi's small frame and big frame now. This kind of Chen Tai Chi with a strong style of Tongbei Boxing is easily confused with Lushi Liuhe Tongbei in Guangping County, Jiyuan No.4 Shenquan (from Tongbei), Jiaozuo Xu Shi Tongbei Soft Boxing, and Neihuang County Tongbei Boxing. The latter four Tongbei Boxing is often mistaken for Chen Tai Chi. Therefore, the more accurate name of Chen Tai Chi should be "Tongbei Tai Chi", which is not the same as the original Taoist biography of Tai Ji Chuan. Not only did Chen Gou's Taoism's original biography of Tai Chi's thirteen-potential small frame be lost, but its action name was also lost, and the original action name of "Thirteen-potential Sword, Knife and Gun Art" that Chen Zouting learned from Taoist Tai Chi Palace was also lost. Most of the instruments of Chen Tai Chi are the names of the instruments and actions in Tongbei Boxing, while the rest are the contents of Wangbao Gun Spectrum and Qi Gun Spectrum. From this, we can infer why there is no "Classic Taiji Thirteen Potential Theory" in Chen Gou, "Thirteen Potential Theory" and "Thirteen Potential Theory". Because these boxing theories, the names of the small boxing moves and the small boxing moves were passed on to Yang Luchan by Changxing Gong in secret and exclusively, Chen Gou's old boxing spectrum was not seen. Mr. Tang Pang and Mr. Xu Zhener, pioneers of martial arts history, concluded that Tai Ji Chuan of the Yang family got his score from the Wu family. The author thinks that this inference is not necessarily correct. Perhaps part of it, such as the "Tai Ji Chuan Theory" written by Li Helin, the 12th master of Li in Tangcun, came from Wu Pu, while the rest, like Shisanshiquan and Mechanical Pu, was exclusively taught by Yang Luchan from Changxing Gong. Imagine if Chen Gou could not pass on the small frame and its action name from Changxing. Then, what's strange that he didn't get those boxing theories from Changxing? In this way, it is clear why the action names and practices of Chen's Tai Ji Chuan and Xie are different from the original Taoist thirteen-potential boxing and Xie, which was awarded to Yang Luchan by Changxing Gong alone.