Tai Chi
Author Lan Tai, the signed author of Toutiao account
Today I will continue to introduce to you my arguments with some martial arts enthusiasts in the past few days. I found that these martial arts enthusiasts are really too easy to believe in the praises of the descendants of the Chuanwu masters and their disciples in the late Qing Dynasty, and they do not have the basic ability to distinguish historical materials at all.
From the standpoint of historical research, to verify whether a person’s deeds are true, it must be verified by multiple materials, especially to match the official historical materials and archives.
, in particular, cannot trust oral history and the inability to form mutually verified oral history with official archives.
Why is the official archive important?
is because the feudal dynasty was basically a society of "fame and fame". Only by becoming a member of the system can one be considered a "personal person". People without fame and fame are not so much human beings as human beings dry batteries.
Taking the Qing Dynasty as an example, do you know what the book that was updated the most frequently in the Qing Dynasty?
"Complete Book of the Qing Dynasty's Sage"
"Complete Book of the Qing Dynasty's Sage", originally named "Complete Book of the Qing Dynasty's Sage", as the name suggests, is a reference book that collects the posts and origins of officials at all levels in the Qing Dynasty at that time.
Due to frequent changes in officialdom, this book will usually be updated and reprinted once a year.
In other words, taking a martial artist as an example, once a martial artist passes the Wu Jinshi/Martial Juren, his information will appear in various official files and reference books like "The Complete Book of the Qing Jinshen".
But at the same time, the Qing Dynasty had no concern for ordinary people. If an ordinary person in the Qing Dynasty failed to participate in major historical events or made great contributions, then this person could not be found in official archives and historical materials.
This is of course the feudal dynasty's contempt for ordinary people, but in the same way, this also created conditions for many "myths" of martial masters in the late Qing Dynasty: because official historical materials and archives cannot be found, the experience and resume can be said casually.
Even if historians conduct strict research, due to the lack of information, they can only say "doubt" and "uncertain", and there is no way to completely deny it.
However, Master Chuanwu and their disciples generally received low education levels in the late Qing Dynasty. The understanding of the society and the government at that time was basically obtained from storytelling and story books. Therefore, in the process of creating "myths", it was full of storytelling style of "the struggle of the king and the minister".
Q: You were mostly poor in the late Qing Dynasty. Then Yang Luchan, a farmer in his forties, could enter the royal palace to teach boxing, and his son Yang Banhou could teach in the flag camp and become a military officer. The class leap was achieved through martial arts.
A: There is currently no definite historical document that proves that Yang Luchan has really been a coach of the royal palace, and even the specific time of Yang Luchan's entry to Beijing has not been determined.
Even Yang Luchan's grandson Yang Chengpu and great-grandson Yang Zhenji When writing a book, they were vague about when Yang Luchan came to Beijing, but they just said in a general way that "after the age of forty." Forty-five, fifty, fifty or sixty can be called after forty.
In addition, Yang Banhou’s so-called flag camp instructors have no historical materials to prove, and we don’t even know which battalion Yang Banhou works for.
Q: In the fourth year of Xianfeng (1854), Yang Luchan's second son Ban Hou and his third son Jian Hou went to Beijing one after another to help his father teach boxing. Yang Banhou was recommended by Prince Rui's Mansion and served as a martial arts teacher in the Qingqi Camp. The Emperor was awarded the Wude Cavalry and was awarded the official position of Dai Lanling. At the same time, Quanyou served in the flag camp and was also appointed as the disciple of Yang Banhou. You said it was a coincidence?
A: The problem with your statement is really too big. It can be said that it cannot stand scrutiny at all. First of all, no one has figured out the specific time of Yang Luchan's entry into Beijing yet. What's more interesting is that Yang Chengpu himself said in "H Yang Chengfu Martial Arts Collection" that Wang Lanting was Yang Luchan's first apprentice, while Wang Lanting himself said that he was worshipped under Yang Luchan's sect in 1868.
According to this statement, Yang Luchan went to Beijing to teach boxing before 1854. Could he ask his first apprentice actually took it 20 years later? Haven’t Yang Luchan accepted a single apprentice in these 20 years? Don’t forget that Wang Lanting’s eldest disciple’s status was recognized by Yang Luchan’s grandson Yang Chengpu.
Secondly, the Ruiwang Mansion was in a state of extinction from 1850 to 1860, and there was no male owner. Who did Yang Luchan and Yang Banhou teach in the Ruiwang Mansion?
In addition, Eight Banners has a total of Xiaoqi Battalions, vanguards, guards, firearms, Ruijian Battalions, Tiger Gun Battalions, Infantry Battalions, Shanpu Battalions, and Shenji Battalions in the military institutions of the capital. In 1898, Wusheng new team (Tiger God Battalions) was added, and no organization was called Banners. Which camp does Yang Banhou work as a teacher?
Finally, the name of Yang Banhou was not found in the "Complete Book of the Qing Dynasty" and his "Emperor of the Emperor's Prize for the Martial Devils and the Cavalry Officer" was obviously a seal of treasures that his family spent very little money to buy after his death. The so-called seal of treasures is to donate false officials, not real officials.
Tai Chi
Q: Yang Banhou has taught in Wanzi Team (Shenhu Camp).
A: There is no organization called Shenhu Camp in the military institutions of the Qing Emperor’s Eight Banners in Beijing. Whether it is the “Eight Banners General Records” or “Qing History Drafts·Ming Zhi”, you can find out my live broadcast and eat mobile phones.
The only close thing is the Tiger God Camp, but that was the name changed by the new Wusheng team in 1898 in 1899, which means "Tiger Eats Sheep (Foreign)".
Yang Banhou died in 1892. How did he go to the Tiger God Camp to be a teacher in the seventh year after his death?
Q: Yang Luchan started teaching boxing at the age of 40 and accepted his first disciple (Wang Lanting) at the age of 67? Don't you find it funny? Can you tell who is the eldest disciple without evidence? Do you rely on editing?
A: Yang Luchan’s grandson Yang Chengpu mentioned in his own "Compilation of Yang Chengfu’s Martial Arts" that Wang Lanting was his grandfather’s first eldest disciple. Can’t Yang Chengpu, the third-generation leader of Yang’s Tai Chi , be considered evidence?
To be continued
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