Dang Lang Tai Chi Chuan
Dang Lang Tai Chi Chuan (Vietnamese: Đướng Lang Thái Cực Quỵên) is Taijiquan ("shadow boxing ") in the style of the praying mantis .
Most of the styles of Taijiquan bear the names of the families that produced these styles. However, the founder of Dang Lang Tai Chi Chuan was of the opinion that the whole character of the style was shaped by the praying mantis, while the name of the family should take second place. Since the style has spread across Vietnam, its name and the names of the forms have been handed down in Há Nôm , the Vietnamese phonetic spelling. When the style name was romanized, the soft “D” for Dang Lang Tai Chi Chuan was chosen instead of the hard “T” from Tang Lang Quan.
Origin, history and transmission of the style
The style is intended to 1905-1915 in China by the style founder Trieu Thian Chan as a mixture of the Mei Hua Tang Lang Quan, Qi Xing Tang Lang Quan (two styles of the Tang Lang Quan -Gottesanbeterin Kungfu) and the Taijiquan developed have been. The movements of the praying mantis were adopted from the Tang Lang Quan styles and integrated into the new Taijiquan style. Around the same time, the equally soft, meditative Taijiquan of Yang Chengfu ( Yang style ) and Wu Jianquan ( Wu style ) was created.
Trieu Thian Chan's grandson Trieu Thuc Khe emigrated to Vietnam in the 1940s. He continued the style and had a school in the "Chinese Quarter" in Saigon with 12 students, among them Diep Quoc Luong and Tran To Nu. He lived in Hong Kong from the early 1960s.
One of Diep Quoc Luong's students was Grand Master Lin (Lam Tien Dat), who brought the style to Germany. Grandmaster Lin is in the 4th generation of this still young style.
Characteristics of Dang Lang Tai Chi Chuan
In the literature one finds the praying mantis kung fu styles "Taiji Tanglangquan" or "Taiji Meihua Tanglangquan". Dang Lang Tai Chi Chuan, with its movements based on the principles of Taijiquan, forms a soft counterpoint to these hard and aggressive styles.
The foot and hand positions, especially the characteristic hook techniques, were adopted from Tang Lang Quan. Dang Lang Tai Chi Chuan is characterized by a dynamic up and down in the forms, especially by many deep positions. As in other Taijiquan styles, in Dang Lang Tai Chi Chuan there are forms of various lengths and degrees of difficulty, with and without weapons (sword, saber, stick, double sword, double saber, halberd).
A selection of shapes:
- Giàn Hóa Thái Cực Quyền (hand shapes, 24 pictures, "Peking shape" with hand and foot positions from Dang Lang)
- Đinh Bộ (hand shape, 56 pictures)
- Thôi Thủ (hand shape, 89 pictures)
- Thái Cực Chưởng (hand shape, 143 pictures)
- Đường Lang Thái Cực Kiếm (sword shape, 88 pictures)
- Đường Lang Thái Cực Dao (saber shape, 100 images)
Spread of the style
Today, the style is largely limited to the Asian region (Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea). Exceptions are Germany and Canada.
Web links
- Information on the German branch of Dang Lang Tai Chi Chuan from GM Lin. Retrieved July 31, 2013 .
- Internet presence of the association "Dang Lang Tai Chi Chuan Berlin eV". Accessed on February 27, 2014 .
- Video Dang Lang Tai Chi style. Retrieved July 31, 2013 .
- Dang Lang Tai Chi style in Italy with pictures of the old masters. Retrieved July 31, 2013 .
- VuLong ASD >> Tai Chi Mantis (太极 螳螂拳) (English). Retrieved August 3, 2013 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Loung Trong Nhan: Thai Cuc Quyen. Doung Sinh (book about Dang Lang Tai Chi with history, descriptions of shapes, pictures of the masters) . Ho Chi Minh City 2004.
- ↑ The Lexicon of Martial Arts . Werner Lind ; Sportverlag Berlin 2001, 2001, p. 595 .
- ↑ Gerhart Milbrat: Budo International . January 1995.
- ↑ Gerhart Milbrat: Karate Budo . S. 26 .
- ↑ Why did our Tai Chi style emerge from a very hard martial art and soft Tai Chi? Retrieved July 31, 2013 .