Yang Chengfu in Single Whip posture of Yang-style tai chi solo form
Born
Yang Zhaoqing (杨兆清) 1883
Died
1936 (aged 52–53)
Style
Yang-style tai chi
Notable students
Yang Shouzhong Yang Zhenduo Fu Zhongwen Chen Weiming Dong Yingjie Cheng Man-chʻing Zhang Qinlin Chu Guiting Wang Yongquan (王永泉)
Yang Chengfu
Traditional Chinese
楊澄甫
Simplified Chinese
杨澄甫
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Yáng Chéngfǔ
Wade–Giles
Yang2 Chʻeng2fu3
IPA
[jǎŋ ʈʂʰə̌ŋfù]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Yeùhng chìhng fú
Jyutping
Joeng4 cing4 fu2
IPA
[jœ̏ːŋtɕʰɪ̏ŋfǔː]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
IûⁿTêng-po͘
Yang Chengfu (1883–1936) was one of the best known teachers of Yang-style tai chi. He helped develop the art into its modern form. His students would go on to found successful martial arts schools of their own and helped spread Yang-style tai chi around the world.
YangChengfu (1883–1936) was one of the best known teachers of Yang-style tai chi. He helped develop the art into its modern form. His students would...
Yang Shaohou (Chinese: 楊少侯; pinyin: Yáng Shàohóu; 1862-1930) was a Chinese martial arts master who, along with YangChengfu (楊澄甫; 1883-1936), represents...
development to the five traditional schools: Chen, Yang, Wu (Hao), Wu, and Sun. Practitioners such as YangChengfu and Sun Lutang in the early 20th century promoted...
family legacy. Dong trained under his father Dong Yingjie, Yang-style Grandmaster YangChengfu, and several other well-known teachers, practicing the slow...
Yang Shouzhong, born Yang Zhenming, (1910–1985) was the eldest son of YangChengfu. He is also known by the Cantonese pronunciation of his name, Yeung...
Yang Jianhou (1839–1917), who passed it to his sons, Yang Shaohou (1862–1930) and YangChengfu (1883–1936). Wu Yuxiang (1813–1880) who also developed...
1897 - 1961) was a leading master of tai chi, and a top disciple of YangChengfu. Born in Renze (then known as Renxian), Xingtai, Hebei, China, his given...
also an important instructor of tai chi. Yang Jianhou's sons Yang Chengfu and Yang Shaohou were also famous teachers of tai chi. Wile, Douglas (1995)...
He later learned Sun-style tai chi from Sun Lutang and Yang-style tai chi from YangChengfu. From all these styles he synthesized his own form, and balanced...
martial artists. A son of YangChengfu and a great-grandson of Yang Luchan (the creator of the Yang style of tai chi), Yang Zhenduo was a fourth-generation...
practice of Tai Chi developed during this time, led by figures like YangChengfu and Sun Lutang. Early proponents of Tai Chi Quan, like Sun Lutang, claimed...
from this posture trained by different schools. List of tai chi forms YangChengfu (1934), Taijiquan Tiyong Quanshu (Complete Book of the Essence and Applications...
had been a disciple of YangChengfu, and later a family member as he married Zou Kuei Cheng, the great-granddaughter of Yang Chien Hou. Fu Zhongwen was...
the Neijia Quanfa. Beginning in 1914, Sun Lutang together with Yang Shaohou, YangChengfu and Wu Jianquan taught tai chi to the public at the Beijing Physical...
baguazhang from Fu Zhensong; xingyiquan from Sun Lutang; tai chi from YangChengfu; bajiquan from Li Shuwen; and the Wudang Sword techniques had come from...
by several foreign powers, so Wu Jianquan and his colleagues Yang Shaohou, YangChengfu and Sun Lutang promoted the benefits of tai chi training on a...
Neijin and Li are said to be mutually exclusive. The Taijiquan master YangChengfu used the concept of ‘song’ as a benchmark in his daily teaching. It was...
the Central Guoshu Institute. On his initiative, a Yang-style tai chi was formalized, with YangChengfu as the most important of the contributors. Notes...
Liu was a direct-lineage student of Yang style tai chi chuan Grandmaster YangChengfu, as evidenced in YangChengfu's first book, the Taijiquan Shiyongfa...