Wudang tai chi chuan

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Wudang Tai Chi Chuan is the name of a system of Tai Chi
Chuan that was developed by a Hong Kong based Tai Chi Chuan master
known as Cheng Tinhung . While Cheng Tinhung never claimed to be
teaching any particular school of Tai Chi Chuan, his uncle was a disciple of
the Wu school of Tai Chi Chuan, which may or may not have had some
influence on his own approach to the art.
The Wudang Tai Chi Chuan system is now being taught in urope by two of
Cheng Tinhung!s disciples, "an "ocherty and #an Cameron, both based in
the $nited Kingdom. The system also continues to be taught in Hong Kong, and
the current head of that school is Cheng Tinhung!s son Cheng Kamyan %&heng
'ianen( , whose school is called the Hong Kong Tai Chi Association
.
&hang )anfeng , a highly mythologised figure said to be the founder of Tai
Chi Chuan, lived in the Wudang *ountains and the name +Wudang+ used
for this Tai Chi Chuan system was used in order to acknowledge &hang )anfeng,s
status as the founder of Tai Chi Chuan. There are other schools of Tai Chi Chuan
that also use this name.
The Wudang Tai Chi Chuan system is also known as -.ractical Tai Chi Chuan/.
This name comes from that given to Cheng Tinhung,s style by various Chinese
martial arts 0ournalists in Hong Kong during Cheng Tinhung!s heyday, and from
the school,s assertion that its tai chi is eminently useful as a form of self1
defense.
The Wudang Tai Chi Chuan system teachers publish that they have links to
famous Tai Chi Chuan masters %see lineage diagram(, including 2ang 3anhou
, Wu 4uanyou , Wu 'ian5uan , Cheng Wingkwong %&heng
6ongguang( , Chen 7e