Wang Peisheng | |
Birth Place: | Wuqing, Hebei, China |
Death Place: | Beijing, China |
Other Names: | official Name: Wang Liquan, Buddhist Name or fahao: Yin Cheng |
Nationality: | Chinese |
Style: | Wu-style tai chi Baguazhang |
Students: | Luo Shuhuan (骆舒焕) Zhang Yun (张云) Zhao Zeren (赵泽仁) Gao Zhuangfei (高壮飞) Zhu Xilin (朱喜霖) |
P: | Wáng Péishēng |
W: | Wang2 P'ei2-sheng1 |
Wang Peisheng (Chinese: c=王培生|p=Wáng Péishēng|w=Wang P'ei-sheng; 1919–2004) was a teacher of Wu-style tai chi. He was a student of Yang Yuting and Wang Maozhai.
Although most famous for his tai chi, Wang began training in martial arts with the Ma Gui, learning Yin-style Baguazhang 64 Palms. At the age of 15 he became a teaching assistant to Tai chi master Yang Yuting. After Yang's death in 1982, Wang became the head of the Northern Wu-style tai chi group in Beijing.[1]
Wang was also very skilled in tongbeiquan, tantui, xingyiquan, and bajiquan, having studied with famous masters of each of these arts. He was noted for his expertise in the self-defence methods of Wu-style tai chi. In the 1950s he developed a shortened 37 posture Wu-style form presented in his book 'Wu-Style Tai Chi' (Zhaohua Publishing House, Beijing, 1983).[1]