#Tai chi classics waysun liao pdf full#

In those cases, not only did you have to take the authors’ words for their translations, but, you had no way to verify the translations on your own. Up until then, the reference books I was using did not include Chinese characters. I was most impressed by Jou Shifu because he included Chinese characters in his writings. Upon meeting Jou Tsung Hwa in 1981, I had just completed graduate school in Asian Studies where I had been introduced to Chinese language, writing, calligraphy and brushwork. For those readers outside the MagicTortoise Taijiquan Jia who come across this workbook, Jou Tsung Hwa, 1917-1998, is the mentor, guide, and spiritual inspiration of our school, and, his book, The Dao of Taijiquan: The Way to Rejuvenation, is the source of the Classics translation of this work. Ding YeYe, and all my other teachers during this sojourn, used and quoted daily from the Classics as though the writings were a contemporary guidebook.

#Tai chi classics waysun liao pdf full#

The full importance of the understanding and use of this literature was indelibly impressed upon me in the Hubei Province folk school of Ding Hongkui, which I attended 1985-88. Liang, and finally by the personal instruction and example of Jou Tsung Hwa.

In my study of taijiquan, beginning in 1971, the pairing of form training and Taiji Classics reading began simultaneously, first through the influence of the Cheng ManCh’ing school, then by the teachings of T.T. In addition, and more importantly to me, it gives access to a Chinese dictionary in self-search of a deeper, more illuminating understanding of the principles and practices underlining the foundation of our art, as expressed in the original Chinese of these seminal writings. It is designed as a compact reference workbook to encourage and assist the more serious and dedicated taijiquan student to consult the Taijiquan Classics. It includes the works of Zhang Sanfeng, Wang Zongyue, and Wu Yuxiang, and an accompanying comparison of eight Taijiquan Lun translations.

This compilation of the three major Taijiquan Classics is the joint-effort of my senior students, Richard Kovarik, Zhao Jinxiu, Cheryl Lynn, and Selden Lamoureux. Taijiquan Classics Translation by Jou, Tsung Hwa Lao Ma Black Bamboo Pavilion Magic Tortoise Taijiquan School OCTOBER 2002