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Classics

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.



The Song of Form and Function, by Cheng Man-Ching

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​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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