WU (HAO) TAI JI QUAN
History: Wu Yu-Xiang came from a distinguished royal family of the government, and along with his two brothers passed the imperial examinations in Henan to be a government official. All of the Wu family members were scholars, but kungfu was also a tradition in their family, and they learned martial arts from their father as children. At that time Chen Dehu had the Taihetang medicine shop near Yongnian and he rented a room from the Wu family. Through this association Wu Yu-Xiang studied Taijiquan with first Chen Dehu and then Yang Luchan.
In 1852 Wu Yu-Xiang went to Zhaobao in the Wen county to study taiji with Chen Qingping. Later he read Wang Zhong-yue's taiji manual, and becoming enlightened, gave up his official career and devoted the rest of his life to taiji. For the next nine years he combined Confucian theory, Sun Tzu's Art of War strategy, qigong, traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts skills to create a new style of Taijiquan. He passed his art down to Yang Ban Hou, the second son of Yang Luchan, and his nephew Li Yi-Yu. Li Yi-Yu taught Hao Wei-Zheng, and helped spread the art in China, so Taijiquan of the Wu family was also called Taijiquan of the Hao family, and today it is often called Wu (Hao) style.
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