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THE ZHANG SANFENG CAMP
The earliest cogent textual claims on “Zhang Sanfeng’s creation of taiji quan” made by Li Yiyu in his “Short Preface to Taiji quan” in 1880, which was originated in his uncle Wu Yuxiang’s 武禹襄 (1812-1880) legacy. The same claims were also made in the manuscripts of Li Yiyu’s nephew Ma Tongwen 馬同文 and Li Yiyu’s neighbor Hao Weizhen 郝為真 (1840-1920). According to the taiji quan historian Shen Shou 沈壽, the latter manuscripts were copies of Li Yiyu’s original manuscript from 1867. (Shen Shou, 16) For unknown reasons, Li Yiyu rewrote his “Short Preface to taiji quan,” and began with “The Creator of taiji quan is unknown” in September 1881 after his uncle Wu Yuxiang died. (Hao Shaoru, 141)
Nonetheless, the legends of “Zhang Sanfeng’s creation of taiji quan” continued in some of the most important modern taiji quan books, such as Xu Yusheng’s 許禹生 Taijiquan Tushi Jie 太极拳势图解, or a Elucidation of Taijiquan Postures in 1921, Sun Loutang’s 孫祿堂 Taiji Quanxue 太極拳學, or the Learning of Taiji Quan in 1924, Ceng Weiming’s 陳微明 Taiji Quan Shu 太極拳術, or Zhang Sanfeng (张三丰) was a semi-mythical Chinese Taoist priest who is believed by some to have achieved immortality, said variously to date from either the late Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty or Ming Dynasty. His name is said to have been Zhang Junbao （张君宝）before he became a Taoist. Zhang was indifferent to fame and wealth. After declining official position and dispatching his property to his clan, he traveled around China to live the life of an ascetic. Zhang spent several years at Hua Mountain before settling in Wu Tang Mountain（武当山）. A legendary culture hero, Zhang Sanfeng is credited by modern practitioners as having originated the concepts of neijia (內家); soft, internal martial arts, specifically T'ai Chi Ch'uan, as a result of a Neo-Confucian syncretism of Chán Buddhist Shaolin martial arts with his mastery of Taoist Tao Yin (neigong) principles.It is said that on one occasion Zhang Sanfeng observed a bird attacking a snake on Wudang Mountain and was greatly inspired by the snake’s defensive tactics. It remained still and alert in face of the bird’s onslaughts until making a In Buddhism there is a wonderful figure known as Nagarjuna, fondly remembered as the father of Madhyamaka, the highest form of Buddhist logic. He was a professor at the North Indian university of Nalanda where he gave virtuosic lectures on the intricacies of Buddhist philosophy. At a certain point in his career he made a trip to the bottom of the ocean where he encountered a pair of Nagarajas, or Dragon Kings, who provided him with a scroll which contained a totally new form of philosophy known as the Perfection of Wisdom. It was this novel form of philosophical inquiry that helped spur a new, international form of Buddhism known as the Mahayana or Great Vehicle. Hundreds of years later, the Chinese pilgrim-monk Xuanzang 玄奘 (602-664) visited Nalanda and encountered a very old monk named Nagarjuna who was still teaching there. His focus had shifted over the centuries, and the monk Xuanzang encountered was mostly concerned with alchemy. Was this the same figure who had fathered Buddhi
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On the Historical Mystery of Zhang Sanfeng