Fact checker: yang chen fu taught at Imperial palace?
Fact checker: yang chen fu taught at Imperial palace?
I was at a Asian festival and a Cheng Man Ching player was telling folks that yang chen fu taught at Imperial palace in Beijing? is this true? I thought only Yang Lu chan did that and Yang chen fu taught at a Beijing sports society.
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Re: Fact checker: yang chen fu taught at Imperial palace?
It was always my understanding that it was Yang lu Chan that taught at the Imperial palace, but i am by far an expert.
Re: Fact checker: yang chen fu taught at Imperial palace?
wikipedia has:
he was among the first teachers to offer T'ai chi ch'uan instruction to the general public at the Beijing Physical Culture Research Institute from 1914 until 1928.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Chengfu
he was among the first teachers to offer T'ai chi ch'uan instruction to the general public at the Beijing Physical Culture Research Institute from 1914 until 1928.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Chengfu
Re: Fact checker: yang chen fu taught at Imperial palace?
Hi Matt,
The imperial dynasty was overthrown in 1911, when Yang Chengfu would have been around 28. I doubt he would have been old enough to hold a prestigious teaching position during the waning years of the dynasty and probably would not have wanted one. My guess is the speaker just got mixed up. I have heard or read only that Yang Luchan and Yang Banhou had taught in the palace. Yang Chengfu was known, on the other hand, for popularizing his family's art at a time when strengthening China and its people was a common concern among Chinese concerned about the weakness of China in the face of foreign aggression and internal disorder.
Take care,
Audi
The imperial dynasty was overthrown in 1911, when Yang Chengfu would have been around 28. I doubt he would have been old enough to hold a prestigious teaching position during the waning years of the dynasty and probably would not have wanted one. My guess is the speaker just got mixed up. I have heard or read only that Yang Luchan and Yang Banhou had taught in the palace. Yang Chengfu was known, on the other hand, for popularizing his family's art at a time when strengthening China and its people was a common concern among Chinese concerned about the weakness of China in the face of foreign aggression and internal disorder.
Take care,
Audi