YANG LU-CH'AN

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'Yang Lu-ch'an' 楊露禪

'Yang Lu-ch'an' or 'Yang Luchan', 楊露禪, also known as Yang Fu-k'ui (楊福魁) (1799-1872), born in Kuang-p'ing (Guangping), was an influential teacher of the soft style martial art known as tai chi chuan in China during the second half of the 19th century, known as the founder of Yang style tai chi chuan.

Contents

History

Subsequent lineage

Family tree

External links

History

According to several accounts, Yang first started studying tai chi chuan in the Ch'en family village from Ch'en Chang-hsing in 1820. He was subsequently given permission by his teacher to go to Beijing and teach his own students, including Wu Yu-hsiang and his brothers, who were officials in the Imperial Qing dynasty bureaucracy. Yang Lu-ch'an became known on his arrival in tha capital as ''Yang the Invincible''. In 1850, Yang was hired by the Imperial family to teach tai chi chuan to them and several of their élite Manchu Imperial Guards Brigade units in Beijing's Forbidden City, in whose number was Yang's best known non-family student, Wu Ch'uan-yü. This was the beginning of the spread of tai chi chuan from the family art of a small village in central China to an international phenomenon. Due to his influence and the number of teachers he trained, including his own descendants, Yang is directly acknowledged by 4 of the 5 tai chi chuan families as having transmitted the art to them.

Subsequent lineage

Yang Lu-ch'an passed his art to:

★ his second son but oldest son to live to maturity, Yang Pan-hou (楊班侯, 1837-1890), who was also retained as a martial arts instructor by the Chinese Imperial family. Yang Pan-hou became the formal teacher of Wu Ch'uan-yü (Wu Quanyou), a Manchu Banner cavalry officer of the Palace Battalion, even though Yang Lu-ch'an was Wu Ch'uan-yü's first T'ai Chi Ch'uan teacher. Wu Ch'uan-yü's son, Wu Chien-ch'üan (Wu Jianquan), also a Banner officer, became known as the co-founder (along with his father) of the Wu style. Yang Pan-hou is also said to have taught a student named Wong. Wong taught Kuo Lien Ying. Kuo's method is called the Kuang P'ing (Guangping) style.

★ his third son Yang Chien-hou (Jianhou) (1839-1917), who passed it to his sons, Yang Shao-hou (楊少侯, 1862-1930) and Yang Ch'eng-fu (楊澄甫, 1883-1936).

★ Wu Yu-hsiang (Wu Yuxiang, 武禹襄, 1813-1880) who also developed his own Wu style, which eventually, after three generations, led to the development of Sun style tai chi chuan.

Family tree

This family tree is not comprehensive.
'LEGENDARY FIGURES'
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Zhang Sanfeng
★
circa 12th century
NEI CHIA
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Wang Zongyue
★
T'AI CHI CH'ÜAN
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'THE 5 MAJOR CLASSICAL FAMILY STYLES'
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Chen Wangting
1600-1680 9th generation Chen
CHEN STYLE
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Chen Changxing Chen Youben
1771-1853 14th generation Chen circa 1800s 14th generation Chen
Chen Old Frame Chen New Frame
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'Yang Lu-ch'an' Chen Qingping
1799-1872 1795-1868
YANG STYLE Chen Small Frame, Zhao Bao Frame
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+---------------------------------+-----------------------------+ |
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Yang Pan-hou Yang Chien-hou Wu Yu-hsiang
1837-1892 1839-1917 1812-1880
Yang Small Frame | WU/HAO STYLE
| +-----------------+ |
| | | |
Wu Ch'uan-yü Yang Shao-hou Yang Ch'eng-fu Li I-yü
1834-1902 1862-1930 1883-1936 1832-1892
| Yang Small Frame Yang Big Frame |
Wu Chien-ch'üan | Hao Wei-chen
1870-1942 Yang Shou-chung 1849-1920
WU STYLE 1910-1985 |
108 Form |
| Sun Lu-t'ang
Wu Kung-i 1861-1932
1900-1970 SUN STYLE
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Wu Ta-kuei Sun Hsing-i
1923-1970 1891-1929
'Note to Family tree table'
Names denoted by an asterisk are legendary or semilegendary figures in the lineage, which means their involvement in the lineage, while accepted by most of the major schools, isn't independently verifiable from known historical records.

External links

★ Yang Family Website

★ a story of Yang Lu-ch'an, Yang Pan-hou and Wu Ch'uan-yu