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It is not known who Taiji Boxing came from. Its profound skill Wang Zongyue explains clearly and completely. Later its transmission reached the Chen family village in Henan. The Chens were very clever and understood it, but it was not passed down to many other people. A certain Yang, from our township of Nanguan, admired it and went to study it with a single-minded devotion for more than ten years, becoming extremely skillful. After returning home, he showed it to all those who would appreciate it.
My uncle on my mother’s side, Wu Yuxiang, saw it and adored it, and constantly tried his luck against it, but Yang was not willing to teach just anyone, and so uncle could only get its general idea. It was often heard that in the town of Zhaobao in the Huaiqing prefecture of Henan, there was one of the Chen family, named Qingping, who was proficient in the skill. For more than a year, uncle was away on business in Henan. Passing Zhaobao on his way, he paid a visit and studied with Qingping for over a month. He started to obtain its marvels and became excellent in the skill.
In the fiftieth year of the cycle during the reign of Emperor Xianfeng [i.e. 1853], when I was just over twenty years old, I started to learn this skill from uncle, who spared no effort in instructing me. Alas, I am really stupid, and after more than twenty years I have only obtained a superficial level. Yet I can see what is exquisite in it, and so I have written a piece which follows, called the “Five-Word Formula”, to remind myself what I have learned.
– written sincerely by Li Yiyu, twenty-sixth day of the second autumn month in the eighteenth year of the cycle during the reign of Emperor Guangxu [meaning Oct 18, 1881]
My uncle on my mother’s side, Wu Yuxiang, saw it and adored it, and constantly tried his luck against it, but Yang was not willing to teach just anyone, and so uncle could only get its general idea. It was often heard that in the town of Zhaobao in the Huaiqing prefecture of Henan, there was one of the Chen family, named Qingping, who was proficient in the skill. For more than a year, uncle was away on business in Henan. Passing Zhaobao on his way, he paid a visit and studied with Qingping for over a month. He started to obtain its marvels and became excellent in the skill.
In the fiftieth year of the cycle during the reign of Emperor Xianfeng [i.e. 1853], when I was just over twenty years old, I started to learn this skill from uncle, who spared no effort in instructing me. Alas, I am really stupid, and after more than twenty years I have only obtained a superficial level. Yet I can see what is exquisite in it, and so I have written a piece which follows, called the “Five-Word Formula”, to remind myself what I have learned.
– written sincerely by Li Yiyu, twenty-sixth day of the second autumn month in the eighteenth year of the cycle during the reign of Emperor Guangxu [meaning Oct 18, 1881]
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