Click below for electronic copy: Lee Scheele has a great site of all the classics
Electronic Copies: Lee N Scheele website T'ai Chi Ch'uan Classics
Recommended translated books on Tai Chi Chuan Classics
Taijiquan - True Art : By Wee Kee Jin
Click on title to take you to Wee Kee Jin's website bookshop. Wee Kee Jin has one of the best tranlastions and discussion notes.
Essence of Tai Chi Chuan: The Literary Tradition
by Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo, Martin Inn (Editor), Robert Amacker (Editor)
The Taijiquan Classics: An Annotated Translation
By Barbara Davis
Publisher: Blue Snake Books; annotated edition edition (February 5, 2004)
ISBN: 1556434316
Cheng Man Ching's Song of Form and Function has been included below from Essence of Tai Chi Chuan: Literary Tradition.
Electronic Copies: Lee N Scheele website T'ai Chi Ch'uan Classics
Recommended translated books on Tai Chi Chuan Classics
Taijiquan - True Art : By Wee Kee Jin
Click on title to take you to Wee Kee Jin's website bookshop. Wee Kee Jin has one of the best tranlastions and discussion notes.
Essence of Tai Chi Chuan: The Literary Tradition
by Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo, Martin Inn (Editor), Robert Amacker (Editor)
The Taijiquan Classics: An Annotated Translation
By Barbara Davis
Publisher: Blue Snake Books; annotated edition edition (February 5, 2004)
ISBN: 1556434316
Cheng Man Ching's Song of Form and Function has been included below from Essence of Tai Chi Chuan: Literary Tradition.
The Song of Form and Function, by Cheng Man-Ching
Tai Chi Chuan
Thirteen postures
The marvel lies in the two Chi divided into Yin and Yang.
It transforms the myriad and returns to the One.
Returns to the One.
Tai Chi Chuan.
The Liang I (Two Primordial Powers)
and the Sze Hsiang (Four Manifestations)
are chaos and boundless.
To ride the winds, how about suspending the head top?
I have some words to reveal now to those who can know.
If The yung ch’uan (Bubbling well) has no root and the waist has no commander
Studying hard till death will be of no help
The form and function are mutually connected and nothing more.
The hao chich ch’I (Great Ch’i)
Can be conducted to the hand
Ward-off Roll-back
Press, push
Pull, split
Elbow, shoulder
Step forward, step back
Look left, look right,
Central equilibrium
Not neutralizing it naturally neutralizes
Not yielding, it naturally yields
(When) the foot wants to advance
First shift backwards
The body is like a floating cloud
In push-hands, the hands are not needed
The whole body is a hand
And the hand is not a hand
But the mind must stay in the place it should be.
Tai Chi Chuan
Thirteen postures
The marvel lies in the two Chi divided into Yin and Yang.
It transforms the myriad and returns to the One.
Returns to the One.
Tai Chi Chuan.
The Liang I (Two Primordial Powers)
and the Sze Hsiang (Four Manifestations)
are chaos and boundless.
To ride the winds, how about suspending the head top?
I have some words to reveal now to those who can know.
If The yung ch’uan (Bubbling well) has no root and the waist has no commander
Studying hard till death will be of no help
The form and function are mutually connected and nothing more.
The hao chich ch’I (Great Ch’i)
Can be conducted to the hand
Ward-off Roll-back
Press, push
Pull, split
Elbow, shoulder
Step forward, step back
Look left, look right,
Central equilibrium
Not neutralizing it naturally neutralizes
Not yielding, it naturally yields
(When) the foot wants to advance
First shift backwards
The body is like a floating cloud
In push-hands, the hands are not needed
The whole body is a hand
And the hand is not a hand
But the mind must stay in the place it should be.
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Marist Regional College Paraka St
Burnie, Tasmania 7320
Mobile Number: 0421634695