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About Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang |
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| By Sifu May Tan (Extracted from a periodical by Chen Style Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan Training Centre, Beiji, China) |
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 Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang |
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| Grandmaster Feng, born in 1928, is the 18th generation successor
to Chen Style Taijiquan and one of the prominent martial artists in
China. His numerous posts and titles of honour include Board Member
of the China Wushu Association, Advisor to the Beijing Wushu
Association, Chairman of the Beijing Chen Style Taijiquan Research
Association and President of Zhiqiang Wushu Academy. |
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Grandmaster Feng's guiding principle is that the internal and external should act in unison; the upper and lower body should follow each other; the whole body should move in coordination and the Hunyuan integrity state should be cultivated. Grandmaster Feng has taught Taiji widely and tirelessly. He has published several books that generously share knowledge that has never been publicly revealed. Taiji is a treasure of traditional Chinese culture, but he has traveled to many countries to present it as a gift to the world. A fruitful tree appeals wordlessly. Grandmaster Feng is revered ands respected at home and abroad for his moral force and peerless martial arts techniques. |
Grandmaster
Feng is the beneficiary of two great teachers. Legendary
Grandmaster Chen Fake, the 17th generation standard-bearer of
Chen Style Taijiquan, highly regarded Grandmaster Feng and
passed on to him all he knew. Grandmaster Hu Yaozhen, a
renowned practitioner of Xinyi Liuhe Quan and qigong, also
transmitted to him the true essence of his knowledge. Because
of his unique martial arts education and more than half a
century of dedicated training and research, Grandmaster Feng
is acknowledged as the foremost authority on Chen Style
Taijiquan today.
Grandmaster
Feng attaches great importance to both inheritance and innovation.
He created Chen Style Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan to express the true
principle underlying the movements of all things. His system
integrates Xinyi with Taiji and qigong to provide both health
benefits and self-defensive skills. The fundamental principle of
Chen Style Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan is that, while designed for
health and self-defense, it focuses on health; while alternating
movements with stillness, it emphasize stillness; and while
simultaneously training the internal and the external, it gives
priority to the internal.