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At age 20 (1908) Zhang Qinlin learned T’ai-chi (Yang style) from Liu Donghan for 8 years. Liu learned from Yang Fenghou’s son, Yang Zhaolin. (Fenghou was Yang Luchan’s eldest son who died early). At age 38 (1926) Zhang became a disciple of Yang Cheng-fu, but had studied with Yang Chien-huo and Yang Shao-huo as well. Yang Ch’eng-fu did teach him “secrets” (Yang Family Nei Kung) for Zhang besting Wan Lai-sheng in 1927 in a park in Peking. Yang taught him these “secrets” for 33 days.
souces:
“Yang Taiji is One Family : Across the Straits” by Prof. Qu Shijing (“楊氏太極 兩岸一家” 瞿世鏡),
and material from
“The Biography of Zhang Yaoxi” by Ye Dami (“張耀西傳“ 葉大密).
At age 20 (1908) Zhang Qinlin learned T’ai-chi (Yang style) from Liu Donghan for 8 years. Liu learned from Yang Fenghou’s son, Yang Zhaolin. (Fenghou was Yang Luchan’s eldest son who died early). At age 38 (1926) Zhang became a disciple of Yang Cheng-fu, but had studied with Yang Chien-huo and Yang Shao-huo as well. Yang Ch’eng-fu did teach him “secrets” (Yang Family Nei Kung) for Zhang besting Wan Lai-sheng in 1927 in a park in Peking. Yang taught him these “secrets” for 33 days.
souces:
“Yang Taiji is One Family : Across the Straits” by Prof. Qu Shijing (“楊氏太極 兩岸一家” 瞿世鏡),
and material from
“The Biography of Zhang Yaoxi” by Ye Dami (“張耀西傳“ 葉大密).
