Biography of Yang Chengfu 楊澄甫 Translation edition 1.0: May 25th, 2013, by Richard Man {original from http://baike.baidu.com/view/770493.htm} I prefer to translate as literal as possible without it becoming incomprehensible. My knowledge of the Chinese is weak, especially when it comes to names, places, titles or classical language. No doubt there are plenty of translation mistakes and English errors. Nevertheless, I hope that this helps some people. Please send corrections and comments to
[email protected] The original was published in Simplified Chinese and was converted to Traditional Chinese using Google Translate. I hope that by leaving the original Chinese in, that better translations will be made. GLOSSARY Beijing 北京 - capital of China Jin 勁 - Refined, trained force. Intrinsic energy. Jin Lu 勁路 - Pathway where Jin travels. Not the same as Jing Luo or the acupuncture meridians Neigong 內功 - Internal development Qing Ling 輕靈 - being light and agile in movements San Shou 散手 - free style fighting Tui Shou 推手 - Pushing Hand Zhan Zhuang 站樁 - Standing pole exercises 樁 Pole is used many times in this article. Often it refers to wooden staff, but 站樁 Zhang Zhuang is the standing pole exercise that develops neijin. PEOPLE Sun Lutang 孫祿堂. Founder of the Sun style. Yang Luchan 楊露禪 Founder of Yang Tai Chi Yang Banhou 楊班侯 Second son of Luchan Yang Jianhou 楊健侯 Third son of Luchan, due to the hard training in his youth, he tried to run away several times. Creator of the medium frame. Yang Chengfu 楊澄甫Third son of Jianhou. Creator of the modern “large frame.” Wu Jianquan 吳鑑泉 Founder of the Wu style Tai Chi. Learned from the Yang Elders and was a kung fu brother to Chengfu NOTE: the author was a student of student (景華 Jing Hua) of Yang Chengfu, thus he refers to Yang Chengfu as 澄甫公 “‘Grandfather’ / Revered Chengfu.” I have chosen to simply use (master) Yang Chengfu or Chengfu for the flow of the translation. *********************************** 大器晚成 High Achievements Came Late in Life 澄甫公幼年隨父學拳。 健侯公性情溫和，回憶早年練功之苦，對於愛子澄甫不忍管束過嚴。 Yang Chengfu started learning martial arts from his father at an early age. Master Yang Jianhou had a gentle personality and he reme