Dinner celebrating the ancestors of our style in Li Ziming Baguazhang and Sifu Fong’s martial arts teachers in Taiji and Xingyi.
Dong Haichuan 董海川 (1st generation and founder of Baguazhang)
(13 October 1797 or 1813 - 25 October 1882)
Liang Zhengpu 梁振蒲 (2ng generation Baguazhang)
(1863-1932)
Li Ziming 李子鳴 (3rd generation Baguazhang)
(June 25, 1902 - January 23, 1993)
Fu Zhensong 傅振嵩 (3rd generation Baguazhang, 1st generation/founder of Fu Style Bagua) (1872-1953) (sworn brother to Sun Lutang 孫祿堂 (1860-1933), founder of Sun Style Taijiquan)
Lin Chao Zhen 林朝珍 (4th generation Baguazhang, 2nd generation Fu Style Bagua, Sun Style Taiji practice) (1912-1997)
Wong Jack Man 黃澤民 (grandmaster of the United States Jing Mo Athletic Association)
(1941 - December 26, 2018, aged 76-77)(Bak Siu Lum/Northern Shaolin, Yang style Taiji, Xingyiquan). His teacher Yim Shan Wu 嚴尚武 was a student of Gu Ruzhang 顾汝章 (1894-1952)(Iron Palm)
Yan Shang Wu/Yim Sheung Mo 嚴尚武 (1882 - 1971) the "Iron Head." (Bak Siu Lum/Northern Shaolin grandmaster)Student of Liuhe Men (Six Harmonies style of Kung Fu) under Wan Laisheng 万籁声; (1903-1992) and Beisheng / Buk Sing Cailifo/Choy Li Fut, from Tam Sam 譚三. Teacher of GM Wong Jack Man. Student of Gu Ruzhang.
Gu Ruzhang 顾汝章 (Ku Yu-cheung) ; pinyin: Gù Rǔzhāng (1894-1952) (Bak Siu Lum/Northern Shaolin grandmaster and Iron Palm, most notably; Yang Taijiquan and Bajiquan from Li Jinglin 李景林;
Baguazhang, Xingyiquan from Sūn Lùtáng 孫祿堂 (1860-1933)
Feng Zhi Qiang 冯志强 (18th generation Chen Taiji, grandmaster) (1928-2012)(Founder of Hun Yuan Chen Taijiquan)(Tongbei and Xingyiquan) student of Chen Fake 陳發科 (1887-1957)
Living and not pictured: Zhao Da Yuan 赵大元 (4th generation Baguazhang)(Deputy Director and former professor of Chinese People’s Police Officers University; First and second Secretary General of the Beijing Wushu and Baguazhang Research Association).
25 мар 2023
