Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi Jacob, by jacob28 » Fri Feb 01, 2013 10:19 am >> “and as fu zhongwen go's he took care of yang chengfu affairs and took on all challengers for yang chengfu and wasnt beaten CMC played with fu zhongwen and fu threw him around like a rage doll .you have to give credit were credit is dew” << Credit!...

Hi Louis, Long time no see :). >> When it comes to Classical Chinese, I haven’t yet met anyone who grew up speaking 文言文, have you? << No. Newton did not grow up speaking Latin either but Newton wrote his principia mathematica in Latin. How so? Because Latin was the language of the learnt in his time...

Greetings Louis and UniTaichi, There's room for interpretation in how to translate 心貴静, but given the example of the exact usage in these early texts, and because I trust both Rickett and Sawyer as translators, I'm inclined to go with "the mind/heart values stillness." My hesitation in ac...

by mls_72 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:29 pm "Being a CMC person from the start....the only thing i have to say is... I asked Fu Zhong Wen about Cheng Man Ching and he laughed. His translator (his grandson) said the Fu had studied with Yang Chen fu since the age of 9 and followed YCF almost everywhere ...

by JerryKarin » Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:54 am "Actually they are basically doing the same stuff the Yangs do. I haven't tracked every move on those but it's much the same thing. Fu does it somewhat more like the Yangs. CMC's version of the sword technique, liao, is different from both Fu and Yangs. ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by LiViNg_4_Jesus2008: .... I may not fully understand everything yet, but I do have the basics of learning, which is a good foundation to ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: In my opinion, traditional Yang style taiji is non-religious. It is just as compatible with any religion as, say, golf. It i...

Hi Louis and Jerry, <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">...of the language and the quaint conventions of the writing system versus very down-to-earth explanations based on everyday language. – Jerry </font> It is hard for Chinese to see that distinction as well. As far as I know...

Hi Louis, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: So, it may be that the li in zhuoli is a figurative sense similar to its use in the phrase zhuolidian (focal poin...

Hi Louis, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: I’m fascinated by how different languages privilege different senses in common and metaphorical use. For example,...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: <B>Gee, you were doing so well up to that point and I was agreeing with most of what you had to say! Then you suddenly go al...

Hi Louis, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: Here, I would have to disagree. An art with no medium would be no art. Quite apart from whether zhuo means touch,...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: ... Given the closeness of pronunciation, ×ÅÊì could possibly be a scribe error for ×Å”µ, which, as you say, can refer to a...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: I did find a passage in Chen Weiming’s Taijiquan Dawen (Answers to Questions on Taijiquan) where he used the first part of ...

Hi Louis, On a side note, there is too much spin on the ‘shenming’ phrase that made it more complicated than necessary and its true meaning end up getting lost in the process. Again I am not speaking as a scholar but as a common sensible Chinese speaking guy. First, shenming is a two character phras...