九霄太極
EnergyCultivation
SelfRefinement
Meditation
Zheng Manqing
Professor Zheng (郑曼青教授) was a gentleman with a distinguished, cultured air. His character was outspoken and honest, and he walked a straight path from which he never wavered nor compromised himself. In the Chinese world he was respected for his 5 excellencies within the Daoist Arts. In the West he was known especially for his taijiquan. He styled himself, "The Old Child Who Never Tires of Learning".
Professor Zheng began taiji with the famous Yang ChengFu at the age of 28 and soon entered his inner-school. He studied Daoist energy arts with Yang's senior student, Zhang Qingling and was good friends with Taiji Master Ma Yueliang. In 1948 Zheng created the 37 move Yang Style Short Form which later spread throughout the world. At age 40, Professor Zheng married Miss Yi-tu. She was a student of medicine and earned her BA at Peking University. Over his last 10 years Professor Zheng traveled in America and Europe.
In 1974 he returned to Taiwan to publish Yi Ch'uan (commentary on the Book of Changes) which consisted of more than 100,000 words. He personally proof-read the galleys, and had just gone over them the second time when he said to close friends: "Should I die now, I'll have no regrets". Everyone took the words as a joke. Who would have thought that at midnight of March 23, 1975 he was found with his head pillowed in his arms on the desk as if asleep. He was immediately taken to hospital. He never woke up. At 2:15am March 26, he passed from this world in his 75th year.
ZhengsGrand Master Cheng's funerary book,
transliterated from classical Chinese by Mrs Cheng, translated to English by Tam Gibbs.In past history, if a scholar mastered a single subject, then others could study it from him. That scholar could then as a teacher, connect students with the past sages. Professor Cheng excelled in 5 fields: poetry, painting, calligraphy, taijiquan and medicine. He also studied deeply the teachings of former sages and was a prolific writer...
ZhengsZheng's Works
Professor Zheng Manqing published multiple books in the fields of poetry. caligraphy, painting. medicine, philosophy and taijiquan...Among his collections of poetry are: T'ang Shih Chen Tu (commentary explaining the poems of the Tang Dynasty), Yu-ching Ts'ao-t'ang Shih-chi (consisting of two volumes of original poetry by Professor Cheng), Man-ch'ing Tz'u-hsuan (Professor Cheng's selection of his own tz'u a form of poetry).
ZhengsZheng's Biographical Timeline.
1901 Born Yueh Cheng1911-1915 Studied painting with Frof Wang Hsiang-chian who named the professor's studio the "Wisteria Flower Studio".
1916 Moved to Hangchou. Studied painting, poetry and calligraphy with Shen Mei-so, Ma Yi-fu, hing Tzu-yuan, Lo Hsing-hu, Wang Chien Lo and others.
1919-1923 Moved to Beijing. Published Chang-he style of poetry with Lo Fu-kan and Lo Ying-kung and taught at Yu-wen University.
1925 Taught at National Chi-nan University and served as Director of the painting department of Shanghai School of Fine Arts.
1926 became a student of Tang, Sung, Yuan, Ming and Ching dynasties medicine with Dr Sung Youan. Additionally he achieved mastery of traditional Chinese gynecology and orthopedic medicine...