April 1, 2007
Chen
Style Taijiquan and Qigong: Bibliography and Links
Chen Weapons: Pole Saber Spear Staff Sword
(Note: This webpage will be completed by March 2009.)
Bibliography, Links,
Resources
Chen Style Taijiquan Staff, Gun
Chen Style Five Tigers and Group Sheep Staff. Instructional videotape
by Shifu Jiang Jian-ye. Instructional videotape, 117 minutes, color.
Traditional Chen Village. 44 Forms with Internal Art. Capital
District Tai Chi and Kung Fu Association of New York. Albany, New York,
CDTKA, 2004. MGC. Use a medium staff, wax wood, flexible, about 6
feet in length.
Chen Tai Chi Short Whip Staff. Taught by Shifu Jiang Jian-ye. 120 minute VHS
videotape. A 147 movement form in the Chen style, created by Hong Jun-sheng, an indoor
student of Chen Fa-ke. Produced by Shifu Jiang Jian-ye of the Capital District Tai Chi and Kung Fu Association of New York, 29 West
Dillenbeck Drive, Albany, NY 12203. Website:
Jiang's
Tai Chi Videos.
Internal Power Training with Bare-Hand, Staff and Equipment. Performance
and instruction by Shifu Jiang Jian-ye. Instructional
videotape, 90 minutes, color. Traditional Chen Village. Capital
District Tai Chi and Kung Fu Association of New York. Albany, New York, CDTKA, 2002. MGC.
See Also: Pole Practices. Chen style Taijiquan uses
a long wax wood pole, from 8 to 10 feet in length for internal energy work.
They also use a short staff, which is is around 4 feet in length, and a medium
staff which is about 6 feet in length.
Staff Weapons and Taijiquan (All
Styles of Taijiquan)
White Ape Staff and Pear Flower Spear: Names of the Postures of the Chen
Taiji Spear/Staff Routine
Return to the Valley Spirit Center Chen Style Taijiquan Homepage
Quotations
Staff Weapons
"Chen Ziming's Collection (1935) contains
two staff manuals (Gun Pu): "Panluo's Stick" (Panluo Bang) and
"Wind Spinning Stick" (Xuanfeng Gun). "Sanxing Version" contains only
"Wind Spinning Stick". The rhymed formula of Panluo's Stick says: "Shaolin
Temple, ancient Buddhist monastery in Dengchu, there are five thousand monks in
its halls; when a Red Army (e.g. Red Turbans rebels) of million (soldiers)
wanted to destroy it, Beiluo showed its magic powers. If you want to know where
this stick comes from, it was left by Panluo in Shaoling". Tang Hao explains
that "Dengchu" is actually "Dengfeng", e.g. county where Shaolin Temple is
situated; "Shaoling" is "Shaolin"; Panluo and Beiluo are names of boddhisatvas.
Although from the text it seems that Chen clan practised Shaolin stick
techniques, however Tang Hao found out that only four postures from "Panluo's
Stick" and one from "Wind Spinning Stick" were identical with those from
Shaolin, while other were different."
- Jarek Szymanski,
Brief Analysis of Chen Family Boxing Manuals.
"The Chinese word gun (棍
pinyin głn) refers to a long Chinese staff weapon. It is known as one of the four major weapons, along with the spear, saber, and the sword, called in this group "The Grandfather of all Weapons".
There are various kinds of gun and these include (from olden days): Monkey Staff (猴棍), Biangan (鞭杆), Mad Demon Staff (瘋魔棍), Tianqi Staff (天齊棍), Staff of Five Tigers and Goat Herds (五虎群羊棍), Nunchaku (二節棍), Taiji Staff of Thirteen (太極十三杆), Taiji Quarterstaff (太極大杆), Taiji Staff (太極棍), Staff of Eight Trigrams and Seven Stars (八卦七星竿), Staff of Eight Fairies (八仙棍), Flail (槤枷).
The types of gun normally used nowadays for exercises and competitions are the bailangan (白栏杆) and the nangun (
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Qigong: Links and Bibliography
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