Rumours about the founder of Taijiquan

Boxing has a very long history in China, and has produced many famous boxers and created various schools of boxing, Taijiquan being one of them. The word ‘Taiji’ originates from ‘Zhouyi-Series of Rhetoric’: ‘There is Taiji in Yi, and it is the birth of the two yi’, which contains the meaning of the highest, the most extreme, the absolute, and the only one. The meaning of Taijiquan is also the same.
Regarding the origin and founder of Taijiquan, there are many different opinions, roughly there are five different sayings such as Xu Xuanping in Tang Dynasty, Zhang Sanfeng in Song Dynasty, Zhang Sanfeng in Ming Dynasty, Chen Wangting and Wang Zongyue in Qing Dynasty.mahong.

Zhang Sanfeng in the Song Dynasty was the founder of Wudang Danshi, and there is no historical evidence to support this claim in the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Huang Lizhou in the early Qing dynasty for the Ming remnants of internal boxing Wang Zhengnan compiled ‘Wang Zhengnan epitaph’, is based on the high Chen Si wrote Wang Zhengnan words and deeds, that the internal boxing ‘cover the beginning of the Song Zhang Sanfeng, Sanfeng for the Wudang Danshi, Emperor Huizong called, the road terrier shall not be into the dream of Xuan Di granted the boxing law at night, the Ming, to a single ding killed more than one hundred of the thieves’. Its absurdity is not enough to believe. Ming Dynasty internal pull Song Huizong era, there is the so-called Wudang Dan Shi Zhang Sanfeng for the grandmaster, the original and the early Qing Dynasty creation of taijiquan has nothing to do.

Zhang Sanfeng, according to ‘Ming History – Fang Ki Biography’ records: ‘Liaodong Yi Zhou people. His name was Quanyi, Junbao, and Sanfeng. Because of his untidiness, he was also known as Zhang Dirt.’ But the Ming History also said: ‘or that Sanfeng Jin time people, the beginning of the Yuan and Liu Bingzhong with the same teacher, and then learnt the way in Luyi’s Taiching Palace’. As for Zhang Sanfeng created taijiquan said, is the Xinhai revolution (1911) after a kind of appendix only.
Wang Zong and Wang Zongyue are people of two times. According to the available information, Wang Zongyue was a person in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and wrote ‘Taijiquan Theory’.