Zhu Tiancai
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in 1945, a native of Wen County, Henan. He began studying Taijiquan in 1955, formally taking Chen Zhaopi as his teacher in 1958 and Chen Zhaokui as his teacher in 1973. The characteristics of his boxing art are: soft outwardly yet hard inwardly, with silk-reeling spiral force; hardness and softness complementing each other, fast and slow alternating; evasive shifts and sudden advances, with storage and release transforming into one another; qi sinking to the dantian and descending to the Yongquan point; power circulating through the whole body yet applied at a single point; spring-like force expressed everywhere, with particular expertise in grappling and counter-grappling. Zhu Tiancai has also compiled books such as Taijiquan of Chenjiagou (Chenjiagou Taijiquan) and Secret Formulas of Chenjiagou Taijiquan (Michuan Chenjiagou Taijiquan Gejue), as well as numerous video discs including Chen-style Taijiquan Old Frame First Road (Chen Shi Taijiquan Laojia Yi Lu).
Honors & Recognition
A representative bearer of Taijiquan (Chen-style Taijiquan), a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project; senior martial arts coach. For several decades Zhu Tiancai has lectured and taught Taijiquan in China and abroad, training tens of thousands of students, of whom more than five hundred were formal disciples; four of them have become well-known Taijiquan masters who teach boxing around the world.
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