T'ai Chi Ch'uan or Long River Boxing Method

History note

The Sun & Wu Shi (Hao) Styles of Tai Chi

These traditions originated from with Wu Yu-xiang (1812-1880) a student of both Yang Lu-chan, the founder of the Yang Style of Tai Chi and Chen Ching-ping (or Chen Qing-ping) who taught Zhao Bao Tai Chi.

Wu Yu-xiang had  one prominent student, his nephew Li I-yu (1833- 1892) who,   passed his art on to Hao Wei-chen (1849-1920).

His son, Hao Yue-ru (1877-1935)  

He continued to teach the Wu Shi (or Hao) style of Tai Chi. Another of Hao Wei-chen's pupils was Sun Lu-tang (1860-1932) who had already studied Hsing-I Quan with the master Kuo Yun-shen and Pa Kua with master Chen T'ing-hua. He created a combined system and used elements of all three of these teachings to propose Sun Style of Tai Chi Chuan.

see lineage chart