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- From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
- Subject: Re: Taiji and T'ai Chi
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.040035.16975@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:00:35 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.054006.20575@csc.canberra.edu.au> Kim Holburn <kim@csc.canberra.edu.au> writes:
- >There are many chinese martial arts with names based on principles of
- >chinese philosophy. BaGua is an example.
-
- That might be a bad example: As I heard the story, when Dong Haiquan
- first demonstrated bagua, the audiance (a prince) was very impressed
- asked what this new art's name was. Dong hadn't considered this
- detail before, and didn't have an answer. Instead of looking like
- an idiot, however, he used the first mystical sounding name that
- came to mind: Baguazhang, Eight Trigram Palm... The art didn't
- really have any connection to the eight trigrams at that time, so
- it might be conisdered an inappropriate name. But the name has
- served as a guide as the art evolved, and the name is fairly
- appropriate now.
-
- Frank Crary
- CU Boulder
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