Tesis 6º Duan Wei

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Author: Juan José Estrella Sánchez

ZHANG SAN FENG

“ONE MAN, ONE DESTINY”
By Juan José ESTRELLA SÁNCHEZ

THESIS submitted as a requirement for obtaining the 6º DUAN

GUADALAJARA ESPAÑA 2011

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Thesis approved:

Director: HONG KONG WUSHU ASSOCIATION

Date: February 26, 2011

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I want to thank, especially, to all researchers who have devoted their efforts to the figure of Zhang San Feng. They all have facilitated and encouraged my work and my desire to know in depth this historical Taoist. I also want, in a very special way, to thank my Master Yuan Xiu Gang, heir to the Lineage San Feng Pai, because he has alwaysshared his knowledge and wisdom with me, clarifying me, in this way, many concepts about Lineage and development.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page APPROVAL PAGE ……………………………………………………………. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ……………………………………………………. 1. 2. 3. 4. INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………… HISTORICAL RECORDS ……………………………………………. SOURCES OF ITS EXISTENCE ……………………………………. MODERNRESEARCH …… ……………………………………….... 4.1 About Zhang San Feng 張三峰 …………………………….…… 4.2 About Zhang San Feng 张三丰 ………………… ……………… INITIAL CONCLUSIONS…………………………………………....... CONTRIBUTIONS FROM WUDANG SHAN ………………………. FINAL APPENDIX ………………………………………………..…… FINAL CONCLUSIONS ………………………………………………. 1 2 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 13 15 18

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1. INTRODUCTION Supporters or not its personality, it is indisputable that Zhang San Feng was, is and will be a historical figure of outstanding importance. Also, many speculations have been made about its shape, their knowledge and martial skills. The purpose of this Thesis lies just, in showing interested the detailed research I have done, with the sole purpose of being able toclarify some points of view innovative and ignored. To do this, I had the invaluable help of Yuan Xiu Gang descendant of 15th San Feng Pai Lineage. The data and assumptions resulting expanded views concerning one of the long-held assumptions about the birth and development of the current Taiji Quan.

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2. HISTORICAL RECORDS The first text ZhangSanfeng hails as the creator of Taijiquan was written by Li Yiyuan in his "Short Introduction to Taijiquan" in 1880 appeared in the original inheritance from his uncle Wu Yuxiang 武禹襄 (1812-1880). The same acclamations were performed in Ma Tongwen 馬同文 manuscripts. Ma was nephew of Li Yiyu and Hao Weizhen 郝為真 (1840-1920), who was Li Yiyu neighbor. However, the legends of the creation of Taijiquan byZhang Sanfeng continued in some of the most important books of modern Taijiquan, such as "Taijiquan Tushi Jie" 太极拳势图解 Xu Yusheng 許禹生, or the "Clarification of the Postures of Taijiquan (Taiji Quanxue 太极拳 学) by Sun Loutang 孫祿堂 in 1921, or the "Learning Taijiquan” (Taiji Quan Shu 太極拳術) of Ceng Weiming 陳微明 in 1924, also in the "Art of Taijiquan (Tiaji Quan Tiyong Quanshu 太極拳體用全書) by Chengfu Yang 揚澄甫in 1925 and in the "Essence and Applications of Taijiquan" written in 1934; besides, of course, in all oral traditions. According to the historian of Taijiquan Mr. Shen Shou 沉寿, the last manuscripts were copies of the manuscript of Li Yiyuan in 1867 (Shen Shou, 16). For unknown reasons, Li Yiyuan rewrote his "Short Introduction to Taijiquan" and began their new text with the phrase: "The Creator ofTaijiquan is unknown", this happened in September 1881 after the death of his uncle Wu Yuxiang (Hao Shaoru, 141). According Xu Zhen 許震 (1898-1967), the source of the association of Zhang Sanfeng with Taijiquan have been supporters of the Yang family after Guangxu 光绪 reign (1875-1904) in Qing Dynasty (Xu Zhen, 112). The attribution of the creation of Taijiquan by Zhang Sanfeng has been seriously...