Tai Chi Sources

FAQs

1. TAI CHI CHUAN, WHAT IS IT?     by Unknown Author

2. WHY IS IT PRACTICED SLOW?    by Unknown Author

3. REASONS BEHIND THE WAIST ROTATION    by Unknown Author

ARTICLES

YANG STYLE POSTURES - Sequence of Ba'z Tai Chi Yang form    by Grandmaster Liu Yun Qiao, Revised for study by Lan Tran

T'AI CHI CH'UAN CHING     Attributed to Chang San-feng (est. 1279 -1386)

THE TREATISE ON T'AI CHI CH'UAN    Attributed to Wang Tsung-yueh (18th Century)

EXPOSITIONS OF INSIGHTS INTO THE PRACTICE OF THE THIRTEEN POSTURES    by Wu Yu-hsiang (Wu Yuxian) (1812 - 1880) sometimes attributed to Wang Chung-yueh

SONG OF THE THIRTEEN POSTURES    by Unknown Author

SONGS OF THE EIGHT POSTURES    Attributed to T'an Meng-hsien

SONG OF PUSH HANDS    by Unknown Author as researched by Lee N. Scheele

FIVE CHARACTER SECRET    by Li I-yu as researched by Lee N. Scheele

ESSENTIALS OF THE PRACTICE OF THE FORM AND PUSH-HANDS    by Li I-yu

YANG'S TEN IMPORTANT POINTS    by Yang Cheng-fu (1883 - 1936)

THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF CONSCIOUS STANDING    by Unknown Author

TAO TE CHING Translated Charles Muller, Revised, July 1997 http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller