2nd European Cheng Man Ching Forum 31st July – 6th August 2004 in Hannover (Germany) The year 2000 saw the centenary of the birth of the late Professor Cheng Man Ching who was one of the most renowned exponents of taijiquan in the western world. Cheng originally studied with Yang […]
Cheng Man Ching
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Professor Cheng Man Ching
Here you find articles around Professor Cheng Man Ching’s life and work. He was a poet, calligrapher, painter, martial arts practitioner, and a Chinese medical doctor. We will add articles and interviews on a regular base.
Were you still in touch with Professor Cheng Man Ching? Did you still meet him and how was your relationship? So when I was in New York I went to see him from time to time. Actually, at that time I was supposed to help him teaching, but then I […]
Grandmasters, Big Sisters and Elder Brothers As Taijiquan in the Cheng Man Ching tradition has gone beyond the traditional system of Baishi and formal acceptance into the “family” or the monastic community as a Tudi or disciple back in the 1960s, the honorable naming of elder teachers and students follows […]
Cheng Man Ching’s direct students – the “second generation” if one sees Cheng Man Ching’s influence as determining a new approach – seem to follow this new tradition while continuing to adapt further to modernity. The Master as student and teacher Taken as an example out of the group of […]
The title of “Master” in the Tai Chi lineage following Cheng Man Ching Back in (historic) China, the terms used to formally address one’s Taijiquan teacher in the proper way depended on the actual student-teacher relationship. While the Chinese terms differ widely, in English language the use of “Master” became […]
My Autobiography William C. C. Chen My name is William C C Chen’ I am a disciple of Professor Cheng Man-ching (鄭曼青) who was known as a great grand master of Yang’s Style T’ai Chi Ch’uan. His five talents were: painting, calligraphy, poetry, Chinese medicine, and T’ai Chi Ch’uan. He […]
How or why did you move from Taiwan to the United States? That is a long story. For example after I finished the Highschool, then I wanted to proceed to College and back then I was always looking for a chance to do that. Actually, after 1959, I was – […]
But anyway, when you stayed in Professor Cheng’s house, then you know you have to … – you are watching him doing it. You see how he is doing everyday, not only learning just in class, but at the same time you are watching him how he is proceeding the […]
So you went to Professor Cheng Man Ching and then you started Tai Chi, but did he have a school or…? He didn’t have a school, but he was teaching in one place. It was like the front yard of an office, a little space. In the morning he taught […]
Well, Master Chen, how did you learn about Taijiquan and how and where and when did you start? I started about the age of 18, 19. And the reason I started was that I was looking to the martial arts – all these comic books and fantasies with the martial […]