One day, Yang Luchan came to Dong 'an market, and had no money to eat out, so he went to Ding's porridge stand to drink porridge. While eating, he asked Ding what he could do to help, regardless of the salary. Ding asked him what he knew, and Yang Luchan said that he could read and teach. Ding-follow one's inclinations thought of what Zhang Si Fat Man entrusted, so he recommended Yang Luchan to Zhang Si Fat Man as his teacher. Since then, Yang Luchan has lived in Zhang Si's home in Haidian, Beijing, and taught two children to read every day. Nothing else, because he came to escape the lawsuit, and he dared not show his martial arts.
Zhang Si's fat family has a great career, and there are more than 20 guards at home, who practice boxing every day. Usually, due to the opinions of the portal, the servants have long had some contradictions with some fugitives.
Yang Luchan has been teaching in Zhangjia for more than half a year. One night, he was resting in a small room in the back corner of his study when he suddenly heard something in the back garden, like someone using a knife and a gun. He walked to the back garden with a three-foot tube in his hand, only to see someone fighting, someone knocked down and someone tied up. Yang Luchan came closer and saw that all the people who fell to the ground were bound. A servant saw Yang Luchan coming and shouted, "Mr. Yang, don't come over. Don't let them hit you." Yang Luchan didn't listen to this. In the past, with a wave of his pipe, he knocked down one outlaw's knife, knocked down another one little by little, divided by three times and five, and knocked down all the outlaws in a moment. And tied them one by one with the rope that tied them. Yang Luchan asked them if they were willing to reconcile and whether the official case was handed over to the government. If the case is settled, it is not appropriate to settle it, and it will not be noisy in the future. Of course, these fugitives are willing to settle their own affairs, so they all beg for mercy. As a result, they were all released, and Yang Luchan went back to the hut to rest.
After the incident, the servants were really embarrassed: the valet's duty was to guard the house, but he was tied up by others or relieved by the teacher. The next day, the servants came to say goodbye to Fat Zhang Si. Pang Si didn't expect Mr. Yang, who teaches martial arts, to say to his servants, "Don't go either, let Mr. Yang teach you." Since then, Yang Luchan has taught martial arts in addition to teaching. In this way, after more than two years, Yang Luchan wrote to his hometown in Yongnian County to inform him of his situation in Beijing. One day, the porter sent a message saying that someone in his hometown was looking for Mr. Yang. Yang Luchan didn't know who it was, so he came out to meet him. At that time, there was a big screen wall across the street from the Zhangjiamen Gate, which read the word "Xiang Ying". Yang Luchan went out and saw that the people who came didn't know him. He is a young man in his thirties. When he came over, he asked for a present. Kneel down on your right leg and go straight to Yang Luchan's lower abdomen with your right fist. It turned out that this person was the family member of the person who was injured by Yang Luchan in Yongnian County, and came to Beijing for revenge. Find out if Yang Luchan is fake, and take the opportunity to attack Yang Luchan's next three punches into his crotch. Suddenly, with a bang, Yang Luchan hit the young man on the big screen with a submarine needle and stuck it straight on the word "English". Then the young man fell to the ground, got up and shouted "Uncle, see you in three years" and ran away.
When Yang Luchan returned to his room, he was annoyed at the thought that someone might make trouble. So I found Zhang Si, a fat man, and told him about the injury in Yongnian County. I think I must take preventive measures. I might as well leave here.
Zhang Si, a fat man, feels sorry. He thought that his two sons had only been studying for more than two years. If only they had learned. So he said to Yang Luchan, if I can find grandpa four, I will do some activities and talk to Wang Lanting, the housekeeper. It might be useful.
During Xianfeng period, Duan Wang was called the fourth master and Wang Su was called the sixth master. If Yang Luchan can teach boxing in front of Duan Wang, the problem will be solved and there will be no future trouble. Wang Lanting, the general manager of Duan Wangfu, especially likes martial arts. Recommended by Zhang Si, the fat man, Manager Wang agreed, and Yang Luchan was really taken a fancy to by Grandpa Four, so he went to Duan Wangfu to teach boxing. Manager Wang Lanting is smart, tall and strong. When Yang was teaching Duan Wang to practice boxing, Wang Lanting followed suit, and Yang Luchan tried his hand with Wang Lanting every time. It was Wang Lanting who was beaten, but he gradually grasped the essence of Tai Ji Chuan law because of his beating.
Under the arrangement of Duan Wang, Yang Luchan began to be a martial arts coach in Qi Ying. The boxing he taught was not called Tai Ji Chuan at that time, but Mianquan, which only taught the standard-bearer but not the Han people. In the flag camp, he only taught the near Eight Banners, not the foreign Eight Banners. At that time, the flag camp was divided into Dongba camp and west eight camp. Dongba camp was a good wrestling camp, while west eight camp was mostly a halter with poor physique and practiced Mianquan. At that time, many children of princes came to learn boxing, but most of them were afraid of hardship and were not good at learning boxing. Only when Baylor was a son, Shao Nan and Yue Zhuchen, the top general in Wuzhong, realized the true meaning of Tai Chi and formally learned from Yang Luchan. There are three junior officers in the flag camp who have learned the true sutra of Taiji, namely Lingshan, Wanchun and Quanyou. Each of them has his own strengths. Lingshan is full of energy, strong in Wan Chun and gentle in all friends. Because of the old hierarchical concept, the three men could not be brothers with Beizi, General and others, so Yang Luchan asked the three men to worship their sons as teachers. Later, Shi Shaonan died of smallpox, and Yue was killed in the Sino-Russian border war. Yang Luchan didn't want to teach boxing any more, so he resigned as a martial arts instructor and left the flag camp.
Yang Luchan, his son after class, Hou Jian and his son Sun Chengfu all taught boxing in Beijing for three generations, which made great contributions to the spread of Tai Ji Chuan.
Wang Peisheng, a martial arts master, made friends with the descendants of Zhang Si, the owner of Haidian Tianyishun Sauce Garden. Listen to his account of Yang Luchan's first arrival in Beijing, first taking refuge in the Zhang family, and then being recommended to teach boxing in Duan Wangfu.
Mr. Wu Tunan, a master of Taiji, also described it in detail in The Study of Tai Ji Chuan, which is similar to what Mr. Wang Peisheng said, but the individual details are slightly different. During the period of 1924, Mr. Wu Tunan once taught at Wan 'an Primary School in Xishan, Beijing, so he was lucky enough to meet Zhang Boyun, a descendant of Zhang Fengqi (that is, Zhang Sipang) of Yu Shun Sauce Garden in Tianyi. Wu listened to Zhang's story about Yang Luchan's coming to Beijing and Zhang's boxing teaching. Wu also got a lot of information from Mr. Zhang about Yang Luchan's boxing practice in Zhangjia, the most precious of which is Zhang's essay (notes of the owner of Tianyishun sauce garden and Ba Shi Hou Deshan learning boxing with Yang Luchan). This shows that this anecdote has a very high historical authenticity.
Gifted, hard to find.
I have been good at martial arts since I was a child. Because of my poor family and forced to make a living, I work in Taihe Tang, a Chinese medicine shop in Xiguan Street, Guangping. This drugstore belongs to Chen Kai. He is from Chenjiagou.
It happened that during this period, Chen Changxing borrowed Chen's mansion as an apprentice. When Yang Luchan was practicing boxing with Master Chen, he carefully observed and recorded some moves. When no one is around, he practices in private. Later, Chen Faxian lamented that he was a talented martial arts wizard. However, it turns out that Chen Changxing is a big shot. Instead of accusing him of stealing lessons, he boldly abandoned his own opinions and Jianghu taboos, and discussed with Chen so that he could formally learn Chenjiagou Boxing in his spare time.
In this way, Yang Luchan was able to formally worship Chen Changxing as his teacher.
This is the true face of Yang Luchan and Chen Gou stealing boxing in folklore. Legend has it that in order to learn from Tai Chi Chuan, Yang Luchan pretended to be a mute beggar, joined the Chen family as a servant, and secretly learned Tai Chi Chuan. Basically, this statement is just illogical rumor processing. If martial arts really can be improved by peeping around, then we only need to go to the park to watch others fight, and we can learn unparalleled martial arts, which is really the first record in the world, and it is also suspected of slandering the history of Yang Tai Ji Chuan.
It is more likely that Yang practiced hard after watching the boxing, and was later appreciated by Chen Changxing, and then punched himself, so he became an outstanding family.
Yangluchan Sanxia Chenjiagou
Yang Luchan went to Chenjiagou to practice martial arts for the first time and encountered many obstacles. Finally, he had to go to Chen Changxing's house to do housework. After persistent determination, he moved Chen Changxing and finally accepted him as an apprentice.
Yang Luchan went to Chenjiagou for the second time, and after Yang Luchan returned to Yongnian from Chenjiagou, wen county, Henan, the whole Guangfu City was a sensation at once. Not only people who love martial arts, but also those old people who don't go out often and children who just know how to read have been rumored that Yang Laolu, who sells coal and soil, learned Taiji Biography from Henan. His skill is superb, and no one can compare with him. With a flick of his hand, he can throw it ten feet away. It's a fairy driving a donkey. It's getting more and more strange.
Yang Luchan studied in Chenjiagou three times, in the last years of Daoguang. In Chenjiagou, just before entering Chen Changxing, Yang Luchan was stunned. The scene in front of the master has changed greatly: dead branches and leaves are covered with bluestone steps, and chicken and dog feces are piled up in front of the master. Chen Changxing, the master of Yang Luchan, loves cleanliness very much. Every morning, he sweeps from the yard to the door, and from the door to the street, not even a leaf and a piece of paper will leak.
Simplify teaching and learn from scholars.
After formal apprenticeship. In eighteen years, I visited Chenjiagou three times and won the essence of Biography of Chen Taiji. About forty years old, he taught boxing in Yongnian, his hometown. His sons, Ban Hou and Hou Jian, study in Wu Yuxiang School. Wu Yuxiang followed Yang Luchan in martial arts.
Later, he was recommended by Wu Ruqing (Wu Yuxiang's second brother, an official of the Ministry of Punishment) to be a disciple in Beijing. At that time, he was also employed as a martial arts teacher in Qi Ying because of his martial arts skills and many literati in the Qing Dynasty. When he gave boxing in Beijing, most of his disciples were princes and nobles, Baylor nobles, who lived in luxury and were sickly and could not bear hardships. Considering the physical quality and health care needs of these people, Yang Luchan made some changes to some difficult movements in Lao Chen's Tai Ji Chuan, making the fist posture simpler and the movements soft and easy to practice, which is not only suitable for people wearing robes and braids to practice, but also beneficial to fitness. After a long time, it forms a kind of boxing style, which is called "Tai Chi small shelf". After being revised by his sons (Ban Hou and Hou Jian) and Sun Fu, The Biography of Yang Tai formed and developed into two routines: big and small. Its characteristics are: generous posture, slow and even speed, combination of rigidity and softness, light and heavy.
In the early years of the Republic of China, when Yuan Shikai was in power, he studied Yang Tai Ji Chuan. Therefore, both Yu Sheng and Song Shuming are politicians, so they spread widely. They wrote books and created the so-called history of Wu and Tang Dynasties, calling Zhang Sanfeng the founder of the Ming Dynasty. They even said that the late Thirty-Seven Potential was handed down from Xu Xuanping, a Taoist priest in the south of the Yangtze River in the Tang Dynasty (there is no evidence), and Song Shuming even had a copy of his ancestors.
On the other hand, at that time, Chen Jiagou's boxing was still circulating within the Chen family. Therefore, in the poem of Yang, a descendant of martial arts at that time, the sentence "Who expected Chen Jiaquan in northern Henan and Yangjiachuan in southern Hebei" was written.
The life of modern people, like princes and nobles, is intolerant of hardship. Yang Tai Ji Chuan, modified by Yang Wei, an ordinary non-Wushu learner, has become the most popular and learned China boxing in the world because of its simplicity.
So the popularity of modern Tai Ji Chuan is due to Yang Luchan's simplification of boxing practice methods!
Be invincible by using softness to control rigidity.
Yang Luchan was able to be an apprentice in Beijing, the best city in China, because he was inadvertently challenged and won at a banquet.
Yongnian Wu Shi is an official in the capital, and he is a noble person of a large family named Zhang in Beijing. By chance, Wu introduced fellow countryman Yang Luchan to the rich man Zhang. Zhang made a fortune by selling coal. Every night, Zhang's home became a place for bureaucrats and gentry to have fun, and many martial arts teachers were hired. In addition, there are some children who want to enter the martial arts imperial examination and worship their ancestors, practicing martial arts here and preparing for the exam. In order to tutor a group of children studying art, Wu introduced Yang Luchan at a banquet.
Zhang Jiayuan invited many martial arts teachers, all of whom were burly and strong. Compared with Yang Luchan's slim figure, Zhang's rich people showed contempt for Yang Yuanshan. So at the banquet, Yang Luchan was arranged in a humble position as a martial artist. During the dinner, the host said to Yang Luchan:
"Sir, I wonder if he is good at long boxing or Shaolin boxing?"
Yang Luchan said: "My fist is neither a long fist nor a Shaolin fist, but a mian fist."
Master Zhang asked again, "Can your Mianquan hit people?"
Yang Lvchan replied: "My Mianquan is not used to hit people, but it is better than an iron fist. All parents can fight except steel. "
After listening to such a supercilious answer, the host was actually very unhappy. I really want to try Yang Luchan's skill.
So he said, "Can you compete with the fighters present?"
The Boxers present here have long looked down on Yang Luchan's gentle and thin figure. But Yang Luchan has now agreed to the master's contest requirements.
At the beginning of the contest, a boxer punched angrily and went straight to Yang Luchan. He made a hungry tiger move down the hill and came as quickly as an eagle. Yang Luchan raised his hand slightly, and the boxer was immediately knocked down a few feet away, covered in blood. Another boxing teacher saw this scene and immediately jumped down from the table to challenge Yang Luchan. The results are all the same, and the rest are too scared to compete. The host was very surprised to see this situation, and quickly set the table and made an apology to Yang Luyan.
After the news of Yang Luchan's Zhangjia Competition spread, many martial arts experts came thousands of miles to compete with Yang Luchan. At that time, the famous artists in North China were no rivals, so they became big cities, known as "invincible Yang".