People of Chen Style Tai Chi

Chen Style Tai Chi: 5 documented people. Founder: Chen Wangting. Also: grandmaster (1), master (3).

Founder (1)

Chen WangtingOfficer of the late Ming dynasty (1597–1664 according to Wile) from Chenjiagou in Henan, whom the Chen family and the historian Tang Hao regard as the creator of Chen-style taijiquan.

Grandmaster (1)

Chen XiaowangChinese master of Chen style taijiquan (born 1945), grandson of Chen Fake, founder of the World Chen Xiaowang Taijiquan Association and one of the four Buddha guardians.

Master (3)

Chen ChangxingMaster of Chen family taijiquan (1771–1853) from Chenjiagou, creator of the Laojia forms and teacher of Yang Luchan, the first documented student from outside the Chen family.Chen FakeMaster of Chen family taijiquan (1887–1957), great-grandson of Chen Changxing, who taught in Beijing from 1928 and made the Chen style famous beyond Chenjiagou.Chen PeishanMaster of Chen-style taijiquan, born in 1962 in Chenjiagou, who has taught in Japan since 1988 and spreads the small frame (xiaojia) with his sister Chen Peiju.

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