A: The Classics is a small group of texts that have turned up in different versions in the families that have a lineage back in history; the Yang family, Wu family and Chen family, but other copies have turned up as well. The common thing is that there were different authors given for the texts. Zhang Sanfeng, Wu Yuxiang and Wang Zongyue have been ascribed as authors for different reasons. Furthermore they had different titles in the different copies, and they were also presented in a slightly different order and different wording. However, it has always been clear that these texts were old and very important as they give us principles for internal practice and the philosophy behind Tai Chi.
\nAfter the Li Family Manual was discovered all the missing pieces fell into place – The classics were written by three different members of the Li Family of Tang Village in the Henan Province. Wang Zongyue was a school teacher who studied with one of them, he simply signed his own bunch of texts and this caused other people to believe he was the author.<\/p>\n
\u7121\u6975\u990a\u751f\u62f3\u8ad6<\/strong> \u5341\u4e09\u52e2\u884c\u529f\u6b4c<\/strong> \u5341\u4e09\u52e2\u91cb\u540d<\/strong> \u5341\u4e09\u52e2\u8ad6<\/strong> \u5341\u4e09\u52e2\u884c\u529f\u5fc3\u89e3<\/strong> \u884c\u529f\u5fc3\u6cd5\u8faf<\/strong> \u592a\u6975\u62f3\u8ad6<\/strong> \u6253\u624b\u6b4c<\/strong> \u6253\u624b\u8981\u8a00<\/strong> \u8eab\u6cd5<\/strong> Body method \u6625\u79cb\u5200\u8a23<\/strong> – Li Family manual, but author not given.
\nTreatise of the Health Preserving Boxing System
\nof the Endless Void –\u00a0\u00a0Li Chunmao (Li Yezhen) 1590.<\/p>\n
\nPoem on the practice of the Thirteen Movements – Li Chunmao (Li Yezhen) 1590.<\/p>\n
\nExplaining the name of the thirteen movements – Li Family manual, but author not given.<\/p>\n
\nTreatise of the Thirteen Movements –\u00a0Li Chunmao (Li Yezhen) 1632<\/p>\n
\nExplaining the mindset of the practice of the thirteen movements\u00a0 – Li Family manual, but author not given.<\/p>\n
\nA discussion of the mind-set of practicing
\nLi Zhong (1598-1689)<\/p>\n
\nTreatise on Taijiquan –\u00a0Li Helin 1787<\/p>\n
\nPoem of sparring –\u00a0Li Helin 1787<\/p>\n
\nEssential words of sparring – Li Family manual, but author not given.<\/p>\n
\n\u5200\u6cd5<\/strong> Sabre method
\n\u69cd\u6cd5<\/strong> Lance method
\n\u6253\u624b\u6492\u653e<\/strong> Issue forth with the voice in sparring
\n– Li Family manual, but author not given.<\/p>\n
\nThe Spring and Autumn Long Broadsword –\u00a0Copied by Ru Chun from the stone tablet at the Guan Sheng Hall in the Thousand Year Temple.<\/p>\n