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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Chang San feng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Zhang Sanfeng was a semi-mythical Chinese Taoist "immortal" said variously to date from either the late Song dynasty, Yuan dynasty or Ming dynasty.
		Chang San-feng (張三豐 pinyin zhang1 san1 feng1) is a semi-mythical Taoist master dating from either the late Sung dynasty or the Yuan dynasty.
		He is described as being seven feet tall, with the bones of a crane and the posture of a pine tree, having whiskers shaped like a spear, and being able to cover 1000 Li in a day.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chang-San_feng (497 words)

	Chang San-feng - Wikipedia
		Chang San-feng (張三豐 pinyin zhang1 san1 feng1) is a semi-mythical Taoist master dating from either the late Sung dynasty or the Yuan dynasty.
		He is described as being seven feet tall, with the bones of a crane and the posture of a pine tree, having whiskers shaped like a spear, and being able to cover 1000 Li in a day.
		Legend reports Chang San-feng as having originated the concepts of Nei chia or soft internal martial arts, specifically Tai Chi Chuan.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chang_San-feng (179 words)

	Origins of Tai Chi
		The person who is traditionally credited as being the 'founder' of tai chi is the monk Chang San-feng, who was stationed at the Wu Tang monastery, and, depending upon sources, lived somewhere between 960AD and 1460 AD, although some scholars question his existence at all, ascribing him to a mythical figure.
		The theory is that Chang San-feng originated a style that combined both existing combat techniques and other movements, primarily designed to increase the flow of chi energy through the body, thus creating a form that was a physical manifestation of Taoist thinking.
		Going back even further, the ancestors of tai chi can be seen in the sixth century: Bodhidharma visited the Shao-lin monastery, and developed a system of excersise for the monks, who he saw in poor physical condition from too much meditation.
	www.soton.ac.uk /%7Emaa1/chi/taichi/origins.htm (586 words)

	The Mythical Life of Chang San Feng
		Chang was born into a clan rich in a tradition of wisdom and devotion to Taoism.
		Chang also studied and practiced the meditation of the Chan sect, as was the method of the Shao Lin.
		Chang used his skill to snap branches for trees or would rip the bark from their sides with his bare hands.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Pagoda/9536/chang.html (4394 words)

	Tai Chi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Chang San-Feng was born at midnight on April 9, 1247 and the anniversary of this day is now celebrated by the followers of Tai Chi Chuan with food, drink and Tai Chi.
		One of the many followers Shao-Lin attracted was Chang San-Feng, who stayed at the temple for about ten years and mastered all of the Shao-Lin exercises.
		According to legend Chang San-Feng was born at the end of the Sung Dynasty, lived through the entire Yuan Dynasty to the reign of Tien-Chung in the Ming Dynasty, a period of more than 200 years.
	home.earthlink.net /~quade/taichi.html (376 words)

	chang2
		Chang San-feng, the founder of Tai Chi Chuan, represents the best of us, whether it be in the Humanities or the Sciences, for many of us are attempting to show others what we see, and to feel what we see, through another set of lenses, another set of visions.
		Chang received a traditional Confucian education—which would boggle the mind of most contemporary American students, whose memory is small, who study less and less for higher and higher grades, and who generally are obsessed with self image, adjustment, and success, rather than curiosity, learning, and philosophical and political thought (Zhu, 2004, p.
		Chang left Ko Hung Mountain with two young disciples, variously described in different biographies as two young males who were Taoist disciples, or as two young females who were Chang’s sexual consorts.
	www.acs.brockport.edu /~lmazzola/chang2.html (8579 words)

	Taiji is known to most people as an exercise or moving meditation form consisting of from 24 to108 movements
		Chang San-Feng was born in 1247 but the date of his death is uncertain.
		Chang San-Feng was the son of a government official and became an official himself.
		From this Chang realized that a 'soft' style of fighting could be developed which emphasized redirecting the attackers force.
	www.donet.com /~rwithman/TaijiHist.htm (1395 words)

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		Chang received a traditional Confucian education—which would boggle the mind of most contemporary American students, whose memory is small, who study less and less for higher and higher grades, and who generally are obsessed with self image, adjustment, and success, rather than curiosity, learning, and philosophical and political stands (Zhu, 2004, p.
		After Chang’s classical Chinese education—parts of which I have been slipping into the college curriculum—Chang passed his exams, a rigorous ordeal based on the collective insights and reflections of a seventeen-hundred year legacy of Confucian and Taoist scholarship.
		Chang’s life embodies the Scholar Warrior tradition, which began long ago, with the teachings of the ancient Tantric Masters who lived in the Himalayas seven thousand years ago, where ancient Mongolian, Dravidian, and Aryan teachings were synthesized by the world’s first Maha Kaul or Great Preceptor, Sada Shiva (Anandamurti, 1986, Nama).
	www.acs.brockport.edu /~lmazzola/chang.html (8383 words)

	Synature: 8 principles of Tai Chi Chuan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This is the kind of thing that Chang San-feng is getting at in his Treatise on Tai Chi Chuan, written about 1200 A. This short essay is probably the first explication of the theoretical basis of all the internal martial arts.
		In both cases it is clear that the Chang San-feng is describing a quality of movement which when done slowly will appear soft.
		As Chang San-feng puts it in Jou, Tsung Hwa's translation, "If precise timing and good position are not achieved and the body does not move as a unit, the waist and legs need more development.
	www.synature.com /synature/TaiChi/8taichi.html (4381 words)

	Martial Arts Reviews- Tai Chi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Linking some of the older forms from Taoism and stressing the internal aspects of his exercises, Chang San-feng is credited with creating the fundamental 'Thirteen Postures' of T'ai Chi corresponding to the eight basic trigrams of the I Ching and the five elements.
		Records indicate that Chang lived at the end of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) and at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
		Chang San-fen's theories, writings and practices were later elaborated upon by Wang Chung-yueh and his student Chiang Fa.
	www.martialartsreviews.com /taichi.htm (781 words)

	Melissa Kushi Feng Shui: Enlightened solutions for conscious living... About Feng Shui (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese practice of harnessing the unseen forces in nature to create harmony and balance within our environments.
		When Feng Shui is used to align and harmonize powerful, invisible energies, we experience the natural flow and support of our environment.
		Feng Shui can play a major role in the transformation of one's life - yet there are other factors that should be considered.
	www.melissakushi.com /aboutfs.html (685 words)

	Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine
		According to Mirriam Webster, a Myth is usually a traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon.
		Chang San-feng is credited with developing the Chinese internal system known as Taijiquan.
		More likely, Chang applied the Taoist health principles and knowledge of energy circulation to his vast ability in external kung fu, thus creating something really different - a martial art that dos not use muscle power as a primary source of movement, but qi.
	www.jungtao.com /ccm/articles/myth.html (516 words)

	Untitled Document
		In 1459, the Emperor Ying Zong gave Chang an official title stating that Chang was one who had merged with and become master of the Way.
		The main building is a small temple in which there is a self-portrait of Chang San-feng and a bronze tablet erected by the Emperor Ying Zong in 1459 to honour our Chang as a Taoist sage who had mastered the secrets of longevity and the Tao.
		As for Chang San-feng, his existence as a Taoist on Wudang Mountain during the Ming Dynasty would seem to be an established fact.
	www.taichichuan.co.uk /information/origins_text.html (1941 words)

	Tai Chi - History
		The Chang San Feng legend can be viewed as having three phases: phase I (prior to 1669) merely claims that Chang was a Taoist immortal; phase II (after 1669) claims that he founded the "internal" school of boxing; and phase III (post 1900) claims that Taijiquan originated with Chang.
		The Chang San Feng legend evolved during the Ming period (1368-1644), based on the close association of early Ming rulers with Taoism and Taoist priests, whose prophecies had supported the founder of the dynasty.
		hose ideas seem to be contrary to conventional combat training and, in general, the philosophy of Chang San Feng serves to counter-balance the teachings of Bodhidharma and the Shaolin school.
	www.geocities.com /ottawakungfu/200TaiChi002.htm (1339 words)

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		Compelled to further his spiritual development, Chang San-Feng studied Shaolin boxing, a Chinese martial art practised by the Buddhists, before retreating to the peace and tranquillity of the holy mountain of Wudang Shan.
		In one of his meditations, Chang San-Feng watched a battle between a crane and a snake, each defending itself without harming the other, thus avoiding the other’s attacks.
		Chang San-Feng realized that what remains soft and pliable endures and that which is hard and rigid withers.
	www.thenaturalhealer.ca /mag/01/03/taichi.php?page=3 (346 words)

	Tai Chi for Enlightenment by Michael Winn
		Wudang Mountain is where Chang San Feng lived in the 13th century, a mystical mountain recently made famous by the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
		In his time Chang San Feng was mostly famous as a spiritual sage and adept of inner alchemy, not as a martial artist.
		Chang San Feng certainly had guidance in creating such an ingenious form and probably had to merge with his Immortal Tao guides to accomplish it.
	www.healingtaobritain.com /P9705-Tai-Chi-for-Enlightenment.htm (4549 words)

	chang po ya
		Chang Po-ya (張博雅 Pinyin: Zhang Boya; born October 5, 1942) was a chairwoman of Taiwan Province.
		Born in Chiayi City to Hsu Shih-hsian (許世賢), a politician-doctor, Chang is a medical doctor educated in Kaohsiung Medical College (1968), the Institute of Public Health, National Taiwan University (1970, Johns Hopkins University (1974), and Kyorin University (1994).
		She was the director of the cabinet-level Department of Public Health from June 2, 1979 to September 1, 1986, and the Minister of Interior from May 20, 1989 to February 1, 1991.
	www.fact-library.com /chang_po_ya.html (191 words)

	EBM KUNG FU -- SANSHOU SHAOLIN TAIJI XINGYI QIGONG SANDA
		One account of the history of T'ai Chi Ch'uan credits its development to the Taoist immortal Chang San-feng, who is said to have drawn the inspiration for the art by watching a fight between an snake and an aggressive eagle.
		Chang San-feng was reportedly a master of Shaolin Kung Fu who reached an extraordinary level of cultivation through Taoist internal practices.
		Li Ching Lin then taught Kuo Yu Chang, who taught Yim Shan Wu, who taught Wong Jack Man, all of the EBM Instructors learned Tai CHi from Wong Jack Man. The heart of the T'ai Chi Ch'uan system is the practice of the single T'ai Chi Ch'uan form.
	www.kungfu.net /taichi.html (675 words)

	Tai Chi History
		As a final word, let me say that Tai Chi Chuan should be practiced every day, it should not however be something that you have to make yourself do but rather be something that you want and like to do, it should be fun rather than a chore.
		The legend states that Chang San-Feng one day heard a noise outside his house, going to his window he ob served a snake with raised head, hissing at a crane in a tree.
		It is obvious that many years of observation, meditation and transformation were spent by Master Chang San-Feng in giving birth to Tai Chi Chuan.
	www.chinahand.com /tai_chi/history/tc_history.htm (918 words)

	Chang San Feng Tai Chi Chuan - Kung Fu Magazine Forums
		According to the modern Chen family and the current Chinese govt., Chang San-feng is a myth and Taijiquan was created by the Chen family about 300-400 years ago.
		Apparently Chang San-feng was a figure of some veneration in northern China at the end of the Ch'ing dynasty, but his connection to martial arts depends entirely on Yang Lu-ch'an as far as we can tell.
		The Chang San-feng in a monastery stories told by Yang and his students have a didactic purpose, they are all teaching stories that have a lesson for the students, so they are useful.
	ezine.kungfumagazine.com /forum/showthread.php?p=586979 (854 words)

	Part 1: Origin Theories
		In his `Brief Preface To Taijiquan' he wrote that the creator of the art was Chang San Feng and that Wang Tsung Yueh was skilled in it and that it was later transmitted to the Chen village.
		Chang San Feng was widely regarded as a Taoist saint and Emperor Yung Ler knew that he had already died and so came up with the ruse.
		It is unlikely that Chang developed Taijiquan as we see it today though he may have invented some of the principles that went into the art.
	members.fortunecity.com /asociano/historg1.htm (2674 words)

	Kent's Tai Chi Center
		Chang watched as the bird attacked the snake's head and the snake yielded at his head and struck with his tail.
		Chang was so impressed with the beauty and efficiency of the snake's defense that he decided to create a martial art using the yielding (yin) and attacking (yang) method of the snake.
		And later the art was passed to the Chen family, who kept it hidden from outsiders for hundreds of years.
	www.kentstaichi.com /abouttaichi.html (811 words)

	Tai Chi History?
		There are associations between the 8 basic I Change trig rams plus the five elements of Chinese alchemy (metal, wood, fire, water and earth) with the thirteen basic postures of Tai Chi created by Change Sanding.
		Chang San-Feng was described as a wise man, with the "arched back of a tortoise" and the "figure of a crane",
		One in particular is while on Wu-Dang mountain, Chang witnessed a fight between a magpie and a snake.
	www.geocities.com /SouthBeach/Sands/3390/tc.htm (1054 words)

	Tai Chi Chuan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		These principles are taught using the examples of (The science of matter and energy and their interactions) physics as experienced by two (or more) bodies in (An engagement fought between two military forces) combat.
		In order to be able to protect oneself using change, it is necessary to understand what the consequences are of changing appropriately, changing inappropriately and not changing at all in response to an attack.
		Its subsequent fame attributed to his teaching, Wu Tang monastery was known thereafter as an important martial center for many centuries, its many styles of internal (A Chinese martial art; combines principles of karate and judo) kung fu preserved and refined at various Taoist temples.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/tai_chi_chuan.htm (3614 words)

	Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine
		According to Mirriam Webster, a Myth is usually a traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon.
		Chang San-feng is credited with developing the Chinese internal system known as Taijiquan.
		More likely, Chang applied the Taoist health principles and knowledge of energy circulation to his vast ability in external kung fu, thus creating something really different - a martial art that dos not use muscle power as a primary source of movement, but qi.
	www.jungtao.edu /ccm/articles/myth.html (516 words)

	Messages
		Chang San-feng is the standard Wade-Giles romanization for the founder of T'ai Chi.
		Second, while Zhang (the correct pinyin for the family name ÕÅ )San Feng is credited with developing the 13 postures of taiji, your synopsis is frought with cliches promoted by certain Western writers who have not read the Chinese and so are unable to accurately describe either the history or theories of Chinese martial arts.
		This is the origin of the story of Chang watching the fight between the snake and the crane.
	www.wudang.com /discus/messages/21/24.html?1104113881 (2080 words)

	student (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		According to legend, Chang San-Feng, a Taoist monk of Wu Tang Mountain, founded Tai Chi.
		Therefore, it is strongly argued that the originator of Tai Chi was in fact Chen Wang-ting, not the mythical Chang San-feng.
		The process goes “from relaxation to softness which, when accumulated, becomes firmness, and then, the firmness changes back to softness, resulting in both softness and firmness, with one complementing the other" (3).
	www.taoistsanctuary.org /pages/taijiquan/student.htm (3489 words)

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