Master Yang Songquan | A teacher is one who imparts moral principles, imparts knowledge and resolves doubts

Chinese Tai Chi· Promote the Dao and cultivate righteousness

Master Yang Songquan, a native of Chenjiagou, Wen County, Henan Province, was born in 1951 into a traditional Chinese Chen-style Tai Chi family. He is the 11th generation inheritor of Chen-style Tai Chi. His maternal grandfather and mentor was Chen Zhaopi, a leading master of Chen-style Tai Chi in China.

Mr. Yang Songquan has been following Master Chen Zhaopi since childhood, practicing traditional Chen-style Tai Chi, pushing hands, sword, spear, sword, staff and other ancestral routines and cultivation methods. He has been deeply influenced by Master Chen’s words and deeds, and has mastered the mysteries and essence of Tai Chi.

Since the age of four, the master has been practicing Tai Chi. For over sixty years, he has never stopped practicing. His Tai Chi skills are superb and his theoretical attainments are profound. He is a world-renowned master of authentic traditional Chen-style Tai Chi today.

Yi has the Taiji, which gives rise to the Two Instruments, the Two Instruments give rise to the Four Images, and the Four images give rise to the Eight Trigrams.

The master has made progress in both thought and study, and his virtue and wisdom have been constantly improving. Not only has his martial arts reached a state of perfection, but he has also attained a spiritual realm that transcends the mundane and is in harmony with the vastness of the universe.

The master has practiced the way of Tai Chi, integrating the essence of Chinese classics such as the Tao Te Ching, the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic, and the I Ching. He has a thorough understanding of the ways of society and life, the physiological principles of the human body, and the ways of the universe and the heavens.

The Old Tai Chi of Chenjiagou is the most precious intangible Taoist cultural heritage and also the highest Taoist culture in China and even the world.

The lifelong aspiration of the master was to carry on the will of his predecessors, promote the Tao and cultivate righteousness, and continue the lost learning of the sages of the past. Therefore, the master adheres to the ancient system when practicing and teaching Tai Chi, never arbitrarily altering the ancestral forms and routines. He insists on imparting the original and genuine traditional old Tai Chi of Chenjiagou, China.

Tai Chi, as an extremely outstanding form of sports medicine and traditional Chinese health preservation, can help all beings build up their physical strength, cultivate their minds, and regulate their lives, achieving the “three cultivations” – self-cultivation, mental cultivation, and character cultivation.

In order to enable all beings to achieve the right path to health, happiness, joy and longevity, the master has been teaching boxing in various places across the country since his youth, such as Shanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Yunnan and so on. He has been invited many times to teach boxing overseas, such as in the United States, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and other countries.

In 1995, the gentleman officially established the Beijing Chenjiagou Tai Chi Training Center with Beijing as his base.

We offer courses to the public all year round, imparting the precious traditional old Tai Chi of Chenjiagou to save all beings.

The gentleman has long taught boxing to all teachers and students in schools such as Beijing No. 4 High School and Beijing No. 13 High School, enhancing teenagers’ interest in traditional culture.

He has been teaching martial arts for many years in various places in Beijing, such as the Ritan Park, the Ditan Park, Zizhuyuan, Taoranting Park, the Prince Gong’s Mansion, the Heavenly King Hall and Jiulong Wall in Beihai Park, as well as in Xicheng Community and Hepingli Community.It is now located at Jiulong Wall in Beihai Park.Popularize Tai Chi culture and Tai Chi health preservation exercises among the common people.

For many consecutive years, I have been teaching at various institutions, such as Peking University, China Customs, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, the National Prosecutors College, the Beijing Municipal Traffic Police Brigade, the Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the Tax Bureau, dedicated to spreading the philosophy of Tai Chi and enhancing the mental outlook of employees and corporate culture.

The gentleman teaches Tai Chi to many professors at Peking University

In January 2018, the master was invited to lead his disciples and Peking University students to perform Tai Chi combat and health-preserving exercises at the New Year’s Eve party of Peking University, and the performance was live-streamed globally

The gentleman teaches Tai Chi at the National Prosecutors College

In December 2018, at the invitation of the president of the National Prosecutors College, the gentleman led the college’s trainees to perform Tai Chi health preservation exercises at the New Year’s Eve party. More than 500 senior leaders from various inspection organs across the country watched this grand event on the spot, and the performance was highly praised

The master teaches Tai Chi at Beijing Customs and Airport Customs

He often travels to many countries in Europe, America, Asia and so on to teach martial arts, promote traditional Chinese culture and facilitate cultural exchanges at home and abroad.

The master devoted his entire life to teaching martial arts and spreading the Tao. He taught over ten thousand students at home and abroad and was deeply welcomed and loved by friends all over the world.

Due to his profound Tai Chi culture and reputation, over the years, the master has been invited by Tai Chi organizations and enthusiasts from all over the world to study and preach.

During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Henry Paulson, then the US Treasury Secretary, came to Beijing to learn Tai Chi out of admiration and entrusted the US Embassy in China to apply to the Chinese government, hoping that Mr. Yang Songquan would teach him Tai Chi. This move attracted widespread attention from the Chinese government and the martial arts community.

The gentleman, on behalf of the Chinese government, gave boxing to Paulson and more than ten others including his wife and daughter without receiving any remuneration. This act of patriotism and cultural envoys has become a fine story of cultural exchange during the Olympic Games!

The gentleman taught the Paulson family, who was then the US Treasury Secretary

In 2011, at the request of many embassies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China invited the gentleman to teach Tai Chi to diplomatic envoys and their families from various countries in China, helping them better experience and understand Chinese culture. Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily and others competed to report on this.

The gentleman taught the envoys from many countries stationed in Beijing and their families

The master further systematized and scientificized the theories of Tai Chi and traditional Chinese medicine for health preservation, applying them to the treatment of various diseases and physical recovery. The Tai Chi Standing exercises he imparts have been published in China Pharmaceutical News for thirty consecutive issues. They have shown remarkable therapeutic effects on various diseases, benefiting a large number of students and patients personally.

Tai Chi is the Dao, the Dao is life, and life is the most precious and genuine individual in the world. “People are my fellow countrymen, and all things are with me.” ” The master has compassion for all beings and spreads the great way of Tai Chi, aiming to help all beings return to the right path of physical and mental health.

A special report on the gentleman by foreign media

A Swedish newspaper quoted the gentleman’s Chinese quote as its headline – “True wealth is a healthy body.”

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Chen-style Tai Chi originated in Chenjiagou, Wen County, Henan Province, and its ancestor was Chen Bu.

During the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Chen Wangting, the ninth-generation inheritor of the Chen family, based on the ancestral martial arts, drew on the strengths of various schools, combined the principles of Yin and Yang and the Five elements in the I Ching, and referred to the theories of meridians and guiding and breathing techniques in traditional Chinese medicine to create a new type of martial arts that harmonizes Yin and Yang and combines hardness and softness. This is Chen-style Tai Chi. Since then, the Chen family has passed down this set of boxing routines from generation to generation, and on this basis, has evolved routines with weapons such as knives, spears, swords, sticks, and mace.

Since Chen Wangting initiated the Chen-style Tai Chi, the Chen family has passed it down from generation to generation, and many renowned martial arts experts and Tai Chi masters have emerged one after another, such as the 14th generation Chen Changxing, the 17th generation Chen Fakuo and the 18th generation Chen Zhaopi, all of whom are famous Tai Chi masters.

Master Chen Zhaopi is the 18th generation of the Chen family and the 10th generation inheritor of Chen-style Tai Chi.The master inherited the family teachings from a young age and learned the ancestral Tai Chi from Chen Fakuo. His skills gradually reached a state of perfection. The master has a long and extensive history of boxing. In his early years, he taught boxing in places like Peiping, Nanjing, Xi ‘an and Kaifeng. In 1958, he retired and returned to his hometown of Wen County to teach boxing. In 1960, he was awarded the title of “Master of Tai Chi” at the National Wushu Conference, and in 1964, he was elected as a member of the National Wushu Association. The master has profound theoretical attainments. With decades of experience, he has authored books such as “The Essentials of Chen-style Tai Chi”, “Introduction to Tai Chi”, “Illustrated Chen-style Tai Chi”, and “Thirteen Theoretical Chapters on Chen-style Tai Chi”. The master is of noble character and tireless in teaching. He has made tremendous contributions to the inheritance of Chen-style Tai Chi and is a grandmaster who builds on the past and opens up the future of Chen-style Tai Chi.

Mr. Yang Songquan is the 11th generation inheritor of Chen-style Tai Chi. He is not only the eldest grandson of the grandmaster Chen Zhaopi but also the main inheritor of the master’s lineage.When the master was four years old, Master Chen Zhaopi began to guide him to practice the ancestral Tai Chi alone. By the age of seven, he had already laid an extremely solid foundation in Tai Chi and mastered the genuine skills of a child. At the age of fourteen, he had already fully mastered the routines, weapons and pushing hands of traditional Chen-style Tai Chi, and began to assist Master Chen Zhaopi in teaching martial arts. After being taught by his grandfather through words and deeds for more than ten years, the master not only fully inherited the practice methods of Tai Chi, but also comprehensively mastered the theory and mental techniques of Tai Chi. The master remembered his teacher’s teachings throughout his life, carried forward the will of his predecessors, and promoted Chen-style Tai Chi.

Chen-style Tai Chi was initially passed down only within the Chen family. Since the time of the 14th generation Chen Changxing, it has been taught to other surnames. After nearly a hundred years of development and evolution, it has gradually given rise to schools such as Yang, Wu, Sun, and Wu. Chen-style Tai Chi, as the originator of various Tai Chi schools, possesses strong vitality and inclusiveness, and is deeply loved by people from all over the world. It is the most widely spread and dominant type of Tai Chi in the world today.