Mr. Wu Jianquan (1870-1942), the son of the great master Quanyou, was named Wu Dao in the Manchu transliteration of Kuang Guan. He was influenced by his father since he was a child. He liked martial arts and was good at shooting and riding. He has profound attainments in Tai Chi and continues to develop, refine and enrich Tai Chi as a master. It makes the boxing frame more standardized and continuous, more in line with the yin and yang theory of Tai Chi, and its characteristics are more obvious. As a result, it formed its own school and created Wu-style Tai Chi, which spread all over the country.
Grandmaster Wu Jianquan was originally employed in the guard camp of the Imperial Guards of the Qing Dynasty. After Xuantong abdicated, he was recommended by Chief of Staff Yin Chang to President Li Yuanhong as the martial arts instructor of the 10th-1st Division of the Presidential Guard Division. At that time, dignitaries such as Duan Zhigui and Lu Jin all learned skills from him.
In 1916, Wu Jianquan and the then famous martial arts masters Yang Shaohou, Yang Chengfu, Xu Yusheng, Ji Zixiu, Sun Lutang, Liu Enshou, Liu Caichen, Zhang Zhongyuan, Tong Lianji, Jiang Dengzhuan, Xing Shiru, etc. established the Beijing Sports Training Institute and recruited There are more than 60 physical education teachers from major middle schools in Beijing. Wu Gongyi and Wu Gongzao Kunzhong, the third generation descendants of the Wu family, are the first graduates of the institute. The students' outstanding achievements earned them praise from Cai Yuanpei, the president of Peking University. He asked the Ministry of Education to allocate a new site and expand it into the Beijing Sports School. He ordered all provinces to select students to train in Beijing for a period of two years. After graduation, he returned to the province to serve as a martial arts instructor. Wu Tai Chi became popular. Nationwide.
After the success of the Northern Expedition, the Central Academy of Chinese Martial Arts was established in Nanjing, with Li Jinglin and Zhang Zhijiang as directors. The museum has appointed Wu Jianquan as a judge for all previous national martial arts examinations.
In 1928, the Shanghai Municipal Government, the Jingwu Sports Association, the Sino-French University, and celebrities at the time such as Huang Jinrong, Du Yuesheng, Zhang Xiaolin, and Wang Xiaolai called the Beijing Physical Education School to hire Wu Jianquan to teach in the south. Tai Chi has many practitioners. At that time, important party and state figures such as Jiao Yitang, Wang Yongbin, Xiong Shihui, Peng Yangguang, Yuan Liang, Wu Siyu, Gu Zhenglun, Zhu Fucheng, Chen Bulei, Zhang Naiqi, etc. also learned boxing from him. In 1933, the Jianquan Tai Chi Club was established in Shanghai. In 1938, the club raised its own funds to build a martial arts hall. With the consent of the Baxianqiao Youth Association authorities, a tenth floor was added to the top floor of the Youth Association. It was also named "Jianquan Hall" to provide an excellent place for practitioners to practice martial arts, discuss and communicate. Wu Jianquan is the president, and his son-in-law Ma Yueliang is the vice president. The Grand Master suffered from diabetes in 1942. Due to the fall of Shanghai at that time, there was a lack of medical treatment and medicine, and he unfortunately passed away.
Wu Gongyi
Among the third generation successors of Wu style Tai Chi, there are many talents. Among them, the leader must be the master Wu Gongyi. Grandmaster Wu Gongyi (1900-1970), the eldest son of Grandmaster Wu Jianquan, was talented, diligent, studious, and highly savvy. The weak crown means teaching on behalf of the father. The first graduate of Beijing Sports Institute. In 1924, he was hired by Jiang Zhongzheng, the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, to serve as a Tai Chi instructor for the student department and advanced classes of the military academy. Part-time lecturer in the Physical Education Department of Sun Yat-sen University. Practitioners include Fang Dingying, Tan Yankai, Zhu Peide, Chen Jiayou and other celebrities. In 1937, Grandmaster established the Jianquan Tai Chi branch in Hong Kong and served as its president. In 1943, when he returned to Shanghai after the fall of Hong Kong, Wu Jianquan's son-in-law Ma Yueliang refused to hand over the Jianquan Society and ordered his disciples to have a try with Wu Gongyi. Wu Gongyi then invited Ma Yueliang to try his hand. In one move, Ma Yueliang was subdued and fell to his knees. Ma Yueliang was therefore After leaving Shanghai, Wu Gongyi became the president of the Jianquan Tai Chi Society. In 1948, he returned to Hong Kong to resume the society. In the "Wu-Chen Competition" held by the Grandmaster in Macau to raise funds for charity in 1954, the opponent was punched in the nose and bled excessively right after the fight. The rest was overtime, and he was notarized for a foul after kicking over the knee. As a result, Grandmaster and Wu Style Tai Chi became famous, and overseas groups sent letters of invitation one after another. The master ordered his eldest son Wu Dakui to set up a branch in Kowloon. The second son Wu Daqi and nephew Wu Daxin went to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and other places to set up branches. And established the head office in Jordan Road, Kowloon. Since then, Wu Style Tai Chi has become popular in Southeast Asia and spread overseas. Mr. Yang Yuting, named Ruilin (1887-1982), was originally from Beijing. A great master of Tai Chi. He once served as a member of the Chinese Wushu Association, a member of the first Beijing Wushu Sports Association and a member of the Tai Chi Research Group, vice chairman of the Beijing Wushu Sports Association, and a member of the Beijing Dongcheng District CPPCC. When he was young, he was weak and sick, and his family was poor. He practiced martial arts to strengthen his body and get rid of his diseases. He started practicing martial arts at the age of ten, worked hard and kept making progress. He has successively learned from famous martial arts masters such as Zhou Xiangchen, Zhao Yueshan, Tian Fengyun, Gao Kexing (Ziming), etc. to practice ten-way, twelve-way spring kick, Changquan, Black Tiger Fist, Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, Tai Chi and equipment. The repeated imperialist invasions, humiliation of my compatriots, and ridicule of me as the "sick man of East Asia" further strengthened my belief in practicing martial arts and strengthening our country and our species.
Because of practicing martial arts, he defeated. Disease; strengthened the body, so when he got older, he took up martial arts as a career. When he reaches the crown, he becomes famous in the martial arts world.
In the 25 years from 1916 to 1941, I learned Tai Chi intensively from Master Wang Maozhai and received guidance from Master Wu Jianquan. I practiced every move according to the standards, studied the ins and outs, and found out the correct feeling. To achieve perfection day by day. Yang Lao believes: Artists must be diligent and diligent. He used his hard work to selflessly pass on the martial arts treasures of his predecessors to future generations. Through constant summarization and sublimation, he took the lead in pushing Tai Chi onto the path of science and standardization. At the same time, it has formed its own unique style. Mr. Yang's superb skills and proficiency are admired by the world and respected by future generations. Tai Chi master and successor of Wu-style Square Tai Chi: Sun Nanxin (1925-1996), a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu, and later settled in Wuhan, Hubei. He has learned Tai Chi and form from famous modern and contemporary martial artists, such as Xu Shoukang from Jiangsu, Xu Zhiyi, Liu Wancang, He Jingping, Wang Yufang from Beijing, Ma Yueliang, Shao Pingen, Lu Hengchang from Shanghai, Wang Chongguang and Chai Senlin from Wuhan. Yi, Bagua, Dachengquan and many other martial arts schools. One of the few inheritors of Wu Style Square Frame Tai Chi in China today, he has written books such as "Wu Style Square Frame Tai Chi".
The descendants of Sun Nanxin include Ma Siqiang (Shenzhen), Xiong Shengqiang (Wuhan), Cheng Jianwu (Wuhan) and others. In addition, as famous as the above-mentioned masters, there are Zhao Shoucun, Xu Zhiyi, Wu Yaozong, Yang Xiaowen, Ma Pu'an and other famous masters. They have made outstanding achievements in inheriting the past and linking the future, writing books, inheriting and promoting Wu Style Tai Chi. contribution.
The fourth generation of Wu Style Tai Chi includes Wu Dakui, Wu Daqi, Wu Daxin, Wu Yanxia, ??Guo Shaojiong, Ma Hailong, Ma Jiangbao, Ma Jiangxiong, Ma Jianglin, etc. They have made outstanding contributions to the promotion of Wu Style Tai Chi both at home and abroad. It is a pity that Wu Dakui, Wu Daqi and others died young. Now Wu Yanxia serves as the president of Jianquan Tai Chi Association in Hong Kong.
Wu Yanxia, ??female, born in 1933, Manchu, daughter of the great master Wu Gongyi. He learned Tai Chi from his father when he was young. He is talented and has a deep knowledge of Wu style Tai Chi. He has long assisted his father and brother (Wu Daqi) in managing social affairs, and took over as president in 1996.
Ma Jiangbao, the third son of the great master Wu Yinghua, presides over social affairs in Europe.
Among the fifth generation of Wu Style Tai Chi, Wu Guangyu, the grandson of Wu Gongyi, presides over social affairs in Canada.
In 1996, the Wu Style Tai Chi World Exchange Conference was held in Canada, which was an unprecedented event. It can be seen that Wu Style Tai Chi currently has a large number of fans in Europe and the United States. Wu Style Tai Chi has played an exemplary role in promoting traditional Chinese martial arts culture and benefiting society.