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Teaching Master Yao Zongxun

Many were the disciples Wang Xiangzhai the famous and those of the first hour (Ziyan Zhou, Hong lianshun Zhang Changxin ...) were also almost a generation older than his last students.

Zhou Ziyan, the first disciple of Wang Xiangzhai

Yet one of the greatest representatives of DaChengQuan, including the lifetime of its founder, remains the uncontested master Yao Zongxun.

In the late 30's, Wang Xiangzhai decided to give lessons in martial him and "hao" (pseudonym assigned by the master to his disciples) that he had chosen Mr. Yao was Jixiang (継 乡 / he which is a continuation of Xiangzhai).

can say that most followers of the founder who has studied the martial aspect after that date have largely learned with Mr. Yao Zongxun.

Wei Yuzhu, a disciple of Yao Zongxun

Among the worthy representative of Yao Zongxun include, among others, his two son, Yao and Yao chengguan chengrong and ruibin Cui, Liu and Wei pulei Yuzhu. Other leading personalities yiquan also made a passage in his school, as was the case for Wang Guo xuanji or Guizhi.

qualities of Yao Zongxun were such that from the 40s, he was chosen by Wang Xiangzhai to meet different people from the challenge. His fame was such that he is buried in the cemetery of personalities in the city of Beijing, near the grave of his master ...

Master Yao Zongxun moving

We will have the chance to have this year in France visited by two leading experts who followed the teachings of Yao Zongxun:

Guizhi Guo is currently in France, he will lead a course in Marseille on the weekend of 24 and 25 April.

Cui ruibin come to France in May at the invitation of his pupil Tournerie Michel Toulouse, for a series of internship in Toulouse, Bordeaux and Pau.

For more information on:

- The internship Guo Guizhi in Marseille, contact Alain Hagopian at 06 31 08 91 12.

- Internships ruibin Cui, contact z Michel Tournerie to 06 15 70 16 92

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Notions of Qi (second part)

As we saw in the first part of this article, it seems that the notion of breath or Energy (Qi) is particularly linked to Taoist alchemy. This is reflected even in his graphic expression: The oldest character evoking the breath being that found in the Western Zhou (11th century BC - 256 BC) and represents the element air above item fire - Fragments of the Zhou civilization and its shamanic rituals have persisted through Taoism - draws on Taoist Alchemy therefore directly rooted in the culture of ancient Chinese Zhou.

Listings on shell Turtle, the origin of Chinese characters

Later in history, there a variant of this character evoking the same idea. From the Song, it was used to designate the "Pre-Heaven Qi" (or "prenatal qi" / xiantianqi) versus "post-heaven Qi (Qi postnatal / houtianqi). The first character represents the air or the inspiration and fire ( 炁) , the second represents the air, or steam, and the seed or germ evidenced by a grain of rice ( 气) .

In his book " yiliao Tiyu huibian, Hunyuan Jianshen fa" (Reports of medical texts and sporting method of strengthening body of primordial chaos), the Master Wang Yufang explains:

"Some people say that the Qi of Qigong is, in fact, the air we breathe (NDT: nowadays, the character Qi means the air because in its simplified form the grain rice in the air element is gone ...) this is, therefore, nothing but air. Of course, it is not so.

In ancient writings that contain the word Qi, which we are speaking in qigong, the spelling is 炁. So it's not air ( 气). "

In that same book, Ms. Wang Yufang said the following:

"The work is zhanzhuanggong yangsheng of Yiquan (maintenance of the vital principle) contained in xingyiquan. Yiquan is a form of qigong. Work postures for the maintenance of the vital principle is a syncretism of the martial art and the work of qi, it comes from the culture our ancestors back more than a thousand years ...

... The knowledge we have today on the uses and customs of their ancestors are low because few people are able to understand the meaning of the writings they have left us. "

If one wishes to better understand this millennium, we can turn to Taoism and its conception of human beings:

In Taoist man is between the two opposite and complementary entities that are the sky and the ground. The sky is yang, hot, it represents the creative spiritual force and corresponds to the element fire. The soil is yin, cold, it represents the potential physical and material and corresponds to the element water. The man is constantly "torn" between these two components of his nature. Taoist Alchemy therefore proposes, in some ways, a method to achieve harmony among human beings.

By "putting the fire under water" (taking control of the body with the mind) can get to "dampen the fire control its excesses "while" gently warming the water "to boil. In" carrying water to the boil, "it happens" something ", this process is comparable to transform it into steam, Qi ( 气).

The tripod cauldron, symbol of the alchemical operation, between sky and ground

Qi is, "what is born when you put the fire under water" (we find the spelling used by the Zhou: the fire under the steam!)

In this process, breathing plays an important role and that's probably why the second oldest spelling which was used to designate the Qi is under fire breathing ( 炁).

Xiangzhai Master Wang said: "When we practice properly zhanzhuang, we no longer find syndrome fire ."

The term "heat syndrome" (huohou / 火候) designating in Taoism, the expression of the nature of mind and its characteristics: difficult to control, very talkative and impalpable, it can still ignite if we do not control a little bit. Deletion syndromes fire meaning "mind control", which is used to generate this "something" that is the Qi ...