Sun Lu-t'ang

孫祿堂
Sun Lu-t'ang

Portrait of the Chinese, neijia martial arts master Sun Lu-t'ang.
Born Sun Fuquan (孫福全)
1860 (1860)
Hebei, China
Died 1933 (aged 72–73)
Nationality Chinese
Style Sun-style taijiquan,
Baguazhang,
Xingyiquan
Teacher(s) Xingyiquan:
Li Kuiyuan (李魁元),
later Guo Yunshen (from 1882)
Baguazhang:
Cheng Tinghua (from 1891)
Wu (Hao)-style taijiquan:
Hao Wei-chen (from 1911)
Rank Founder of Sun-style taijiquan
Founder of Sun style Baguazhang
Notable students Sun Xingyi (孫星一),
Sun Jianyun (孫劍雲),
Sun Cunzhou (孫存周)
Website Sun-style website
Sun Lu-t'ang
Traditional Chinese 孫祿堂
Simplified Chinese 孙禄堂
Sun Fuquan
Chinese 孫福全

Sun Lu-t'ang or Sun Lutang (1860-1933) was a renowned master of Chinese neijia (internal) martial arts and was the progenitor of the syncretic art of Sun-style t'ai chi ch'uan.[1] He was also considered an accomplished Neo-Confucian and Taoist scholar (especially in the I Ching), and was a distinguished contributor to the theory of internal martial arts through his many published works.[2]

Sun Lu-t'ang standing in Xingyiquan's San Ti Shi stance.
Sun Lu-t'ang performing Baguazhang.

Biography

He was born in Hebei and was named Sun Fuquan (孫福全) by his parents. Years later, his Baguazhang teacher Cheng Tinghua (程延華) gave him the name Sun Lutang. (It was common in old China for people to have multiple names). He continued to use his original name in some areas, including the publishing of his books.

He was also well-versed in two other internal martial arts: xingyiquan (hsing-i ch'uan) and baguazhang (pa-kua chang) before he came to study t'ai chi ch'uan (taijiquan). His expertise in these two martial arts were so high that many regarded him as without equal. Sun learned Wu (Hao)-style t'ai chi ch'uan from Hao Wei-chen.[1] Sun started studying with Hao relatively late in his life, but his accomplishments in the other two internal arts led him to develop his t'ai chi abilities to a high standard more quickly than is usual.

He subsequently was invited by Yang Shao-hou, Yang Chengfu and Wu Chien-ch'üan to join them on the faculty of the Beijing Physical Education Research Institute where they taught t'ai chi to the public after 1914.[2] Sun taught there until 1928, a seminal period in the development of modern Yang, Wu and Sun-style t'ai chi ch'uan.[2]

Family

In 1891 he married Zhang Zhouxian, with whom he had three sons and a daughter.

Teachers

T'ai chi ch'uan lineage tree with Sun-style focus

Note:


Key:NEIJIA
Solid linesDirect teacher-student.
Dot linesPartial influence
/taught informally
/limited time.		TAIJIQUAN
Dash linesIndividual(s) omitted.
Dash crossBranch continues.CHEN-STYLEZhaobao-style
YANG-STYLE
WU (HAO)-STYLEZhaobao He-style
Li-style(郝為真)
Hao Weizhen
1849–1920
3rd gen. Wu (Hao)
WU-STYLE(孙禄堂)
Sun Lutang
1861–1932
SUN-STYLE
(孙存周)
Sun Cunzhou
1893–1963
2nd gen. Sun		(孙剑云)
Sun Jianyun
1913–2003
2nd gen. Sun
Wudang-style(孙婉容)
Sun Wanrong
1927–Present
3rd gen. Sun
CHEN-STYLEYANG-STYLEWU-STYLESUN-STYLEWU (HAO)-STYLE

Publications

In later life, he published five martial arts texts which were also later translated to English recently:

He also wrote a study of Bagua spear, though this was never published.

References

  1. 1 2 Yip, Li (Faye) (April 1998). "Principles and Practice of Sun Style T’ai Chi – T’AI CHI The International Magazine of T’ai Chi Ch’uan Vol. 22 No. 2". Wayfarer Publications. ISSN 0730-1049.
  2. 1 2 3 Wile, Douglas (1995). Lost T'ai-chi Classics from the Late Ch'ing Dynasty (Chinese Philosophy and Culture). State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-2654-8.

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