You are one of a very very few Lao Wai who speak Chinese in native Chinese accent. And your knowledge about China history is remarkable. Impressive. 👏👏👏

You're the one of the extremely few western people who is knowledgeable on how to pronounce Mandarin names and words. This simple thing easily makes you more credible and immediately sound smarter. While many ignorant ones simply 'French'-ify or Anglicise all foreign names, which is absurd.

@RK-um2bj

3 ай бұрын

Frenchify is a nightmare, before them, English was nordic and written in runes, French killed our culture

@billyko4391

13 күн бұрын

I just appreciate the information and knowledge. Presented in a very accomodating way. Thank you.

Sending gratitude from a Daoist monastery near Seattle (USA)!

Bro I love how through the years Ben just hasn't given up on teaching Chinese on KZread. That's awesome since I haven't given up on learning!!

What a beautiful story. And to realize that it may just be based on facts, despite what we could normally view as myth

I've been a long time practitioner of Chinese Martial Arts, in particular Shaolin/Sil Lum Boxing for over 40 year's. The style I practice is known as Jow Ga/Chau Ga or Zhou Jia Chuan. I have also authored two books on the system. The first being "The Power Of Shaolin Kung Fu". As I am new to this channel, I was wondering if you would talk a bit more about some of the more unique and not so well known styles of both Southern and Northern External Boxing styles???🤔 I look forward to following this Channel.👊👊👊

@zhaosoh451

5 ай бұрын

Hi Ronald, am a practitioner of Jow Gar from Singapore. Would like to thank you for writing the book that outlined the genesis of Jow Gar. It was very informative 😊

@orlandogivens4779

4 ай бұрын

External Styles???

200 years lol, I’ve listen to similar stories like these growing up…good stories. You’re videos are awesome. Thanks

@thedarksideoftheforce6658

2 ай бұрын

Lol. It's definitely fiction. People didn't live long back then life expectancy was like 30 years old.

thank you for this! i love stories like this. keep it coming

Fantastic videos, thank you so much, Ben, Jared. Really appreciate the in-depth knowledge, and great effort in research. A great big thank you !!

This is amazing video. Thank you so much!!

Always love these stories brother. Thank you so much for what you do. Long live good energy…

Great video! Thank you! 🙏

That was really excellent! Thanks.

That was an amazing narrative! Thank you so very much!

This was excellent. Thank you!

Excellent! Thank you for your hard work

I remember watching all of the Condor Heroes tv shows and Zhang Sanfeng was literally Chinese Dumbledore.

@khunpan4426

8 ай бұрын

Is he older than Yang Guo?

@airstyles1989

8 ай бұрын

@@khunpan4426 No, he's younger than Guo Xiang, who's younger than Yang Guo. Guo Xiang in the story was his childhood crush.

@khunpan4426

8 ай бұрын

@@airstyles1989 oh ok

@andriesusanto8684

8 ай бұрын

he comes back on the last condor heroes trilogy , hevenly sword and dragon sabre , these two weapon were made by guo jing. but the story revolves on zhang wuji , zhang sanfeng grandson/grand student . yang guo descedant also apeared once for cameo 😂

Thank you, love your channel 🕊🥷🏼⚔️💯🕊

Great teachings. Thank you

Wow super interesting..liked this bit of history immensely 😊

Excellent content. 👍💯👍

Great to see more about history and lost art

Wonderful video

New Subscriber. Keep the videos coming

Thanks for the history lesson I find the subject interesting

Nicely done....

Very informative

Awesome!

Wow impressive video and eye-opening for new life beginning.

Thanks Ben and may I add that Zhang is being immortalised by the Chinese novelist Louis Cha who is known as Jin Yung and Zhang appeared in his martial art novel title as The Heavenly Sword and Slay Sabre

Hi, fascinating video thank you very much! I’m a So a big fan of the Water Margin, would there be any chance of a video about this classic?

Thank you for your devotion

Great story!

He also wrote a book detailing the 72 levels of power which was handed down through the mo zi lineage to john chang (baharuden)from mo pai chuan, after his death it was handed down to his number one student in indonesia.

You are a very good teacher. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Wow.

# Very well narrated !!

Very excellent chinese pronounciation. Thanks for sharing

thank you

Very nice

Great video! How about a video on the whole poem!?

@learnchinesenow

9 ай бұрын

I have told Jared, maybe he will do that for you. Ben

Beautiful. Love Zhang SanFeng

Very interesting

Inspiring

Well, I am suprised by your channel. I am a taijiquan (楊式太極拳) practitioner who just retook my Chinese lessons as well. Quite interesting poetry materials. I plan to reproduce a few poetries as Chinese calligraphy for my teacher. However, my scope is to practice a good quality of taijiquan for health purposes. One more time 確實謝謝你

I started playing a game called OverMortal, all about cultivating spirit energy and fighting invading Taoists. This channel popped up at the perfect time!

😲🔥🔥🔥 I always wanted to learn how to mix both

Thank you for this lesson. I’ve been told that there are still martial arts practitioners living in remote parts of China who claim to be older than 150 years. I would like to meet them someday.

@wolfgang4368x

8 ай бұрын

Sogenannte Unsterbliche in China waren über 200 JAhre alt - siehe im Buch "Der Taoist vom Huashan" und "Der Meister vom Drachentor".

@DickDickerson01

8 ай бұрын

I'd love to meet these liars, too.

Thankyou excellent grattitude

I'm not a Taoist, and I started my Taichi studies from a book by Yang Jwing Ming (also learned Xingyiquan from him, but not in depth). It was through his books that I understood the medicinal virtues of Taichi movements, like which internal organs each form massaged, to the point that I can create my own routines based on the Yang style.

I hope to be able to visit Wudang one day.

Fighting a Tai chi master should be like fighting a feather. Wow...... 🍃🍃

@lythonoise

8 ай бұрын

Tickle tickle…

What a delightful video and it is precisely one of the many reasons why, when I have time, 'surf' You tube. I've discovered yet another remarkable channel on You Tube and am looking forward to exploring it. Thank you so very much ( You Tube ) for opening my eyes just a little more in the most amazing world I live on or in, uncertain which is correct.

fully agree about Master Zhang Shan Feng

I’ve been teaching TaijiJuan since 1984. I look forward to us discussing my version of the history of Chan San Feng.

Also that 200 year old martial artist made his own elixir wine that had secret herbs, ginseng ,goji berries fermented producing alcohol which doctors say today that one to two shots a day of 40 proof or more cleans the blood and over all promotes a longer life. He also practiced 8 diagram Baguazahng and this circular movement was a great addition to maintaining the bodies health. I practice it myself ... to the fact that I can feel the moon and lift my hand to show you when waves crash on a beach on a beach several miles away because I can feel the pull from the moon in my own body due to the human being .... "being" .... mostly water. Two magnetic poles in the earth ...... the human brain has electricity .... humans have iron in their blood. If a needle is charged with static and placed in a cupped leaf on water .... it will spin back and forth ..... like Baguzhang. Winding anf un winding. Don't forget that the "big bang" has still left a release of energy .... some scientists say now that the universe is expanding and contracting at the same time. now I'll get corny and funny but still be real ... " when my opponent expands I contract ... when they contract I expand " "Be water my friend" -Bruce Lee There was much more to those statements and many more than most people know.

@lionelthawne7723

8 ай бұрын

WU-TANG FOREVER♾️☯️☸️⚛️🏁🏴‍☠️🤯

@Freyja_M4106

8 ай бұрын

m sure you believe that

@lythonoise

8 ай бұрын

Test that against MMA.

@Linvalfarquharson

8 ай бұрын

because the ones who go try that as not got the full proper art,

@kepheramanjet3244

8 ай бұрын

You have a ton of wisdom and I know you want to teach it

Epic,…. thank you you’re a legend

Your voice in Chinese sounds clear to understand, can you in the future put out a video in Chinese with English translation below in the screen,

I used to train old yang style taichi, and also other martial arts, more than 20 years. All I can say is this is not just good a story in this video.There really is things that someone can't get just by hard practice or having big desire, it just need something more. The missing part is cultivation. Nowadays people want only learn how to punch hard, how to hurt others, and the cultivation part they call "stories". Just like they have forgotten the buddhist or taoist origin of many martial art. You can say they only want an external part about it. I know there are students who really want to learn the hole art including the inner part, but they can't find the real master who is able to teach these inner things. All I can suggest is they read Master Li's book "Zhuan Falun", and think things in new eyes. The book is not about how to fight, but how to really cultivate your real self.

1 clarification, in addition to pushing, Tai Chi also has deadly strikes, but these would only be used if there is serious danger. We don’t emphasize this enough in the video, thank you to one viewer who pointed it out. I.e. its not that Tai Chi can only push people out the way! 7:04

@TaiChiDragon....

9 ай бұрын

I was going to say the same thing after seeing your video. Tai Chi also strikes, especially on pressure points, depending on your teacher. But I feel Tai Chi comes alive when you know what targets you are hitting during your form. But glad you cleared that up. All the best.

Exaggerated stories becomes a legend over time. I’ve only known of him as the creator of Tai Chi Chuan.

Relinquish your desires to live longevity. Yup, I can agree with Zhang San Feng advice for life 👍👍

Forms are meant to build muscle memory & maintain health. Anybody with a deep understanding of tai chi would be very difficult to beat in an actual match without rules. The masters knew how to borrow power from the earth & project it outward in all directions. Whiplash from a prolerly executed technique could lead to permanent damage or even death.

The West say Chinese Kung Fu flying and jumping of trees and houses are ridiculous fake but they love their Star War Jedi mind tricks and the force. 😂😂

What I have been know about Taiji, its a martial art and not just physical and spiritual exercises. Everybody who learned Traditional Chinese Martial Art (TCMA) know, that there are two type of courses in TCMA, one for common peoples or common students (inclusive), and the other for "behind the door" student or inner student (exclusive). Its very different materials for common students and inner student, just like earth and sky, even thought its look similar but it just look similar in the wrap but not in the content. Back to taiji, the well known taiji movements mostly come from Chen Man Ching (CMC), he has re-designed taiji for sexercise purpose, and he is not an inner student. So figure it this way, he created some taiji movements from not origin movements, and made it for exercises purpose. Can you imagine how big is the deviation from the origin?? In the inner student, off course their accept Zhang Sanfeng as "one of" their ancestor, but not same Zhang Sanfeng like the myth said. Their Zhang Sanfeng, he was not the student of shaolin, and the inspired story about snake and crane, its only fairy tale. And another information, the name of Zhan Sanfeng its not belonged to one person, I believe this could answer you about the immortality.

@joeboo1983

8 ай бұрын

I don’t know Tajii, but i know Hei Gung and chi kung and Zhan Zhuang and the real masters went deep into the spiritual dimension and the sea of law and learnt these secret methods.

@ramawijaya540

8 ай бұрын

@@joeboo1983 Zhan Zhuang (ZZ) has two different methods, one is for public, and another only for behind the door student. The ZZ for public has been modified by some many practitioners and has distinguished far away from the ZZ for behind the door student.

@joeboo1983

8 ай бұрын

@@ramawijaya540 I know the more spiritual powerful postures are concealed. I was roughy a powerful moving hei gung that’s follows sitting meditation. The real deal certainly not for the public.

@dklang

8 ай бұрын

Amazing. You can learn so much on YT. Some of it is true, much of it is false

Legend says he even founded the Wutang Clan...

I just wanted to point out that during zhang sf's time the 18 dragon subduing palm manual had been lost for many generations.

张三丰是我最欣赏的武术家和道士。他不仅武功高强（虽然在历史记载中不如金庸先生的书“倚天屠龙记”中的那般强），武学造诣非凡，对于道家以及道教，他的影响力也是非同凡响。我十分感谢您在KZread上介绍了他，也十分欣赏您的作品。我希望您能介绍中国历史上的武术家例如：达摩祖师，霍元甲，黄飞鸿，叶问，梁赞以及洪熙官。

@huangsam00

4 ай бұрын

据个人所知，张三风真人的原创太极是大道无敌，驰骋天地。他本人好像也不愿玄而又玄。据说他的太极身法已被后世搞乱了，心法也没流传下来。

Great research. My upmost respect for a non Chinese for the way it is presented. Every Chinese know ZhangSanFeng but is confused as to who is the real founder of TaiChi.

People made fun of me when I mentioned the Wudang mountains saying g what you mean wutang etc. Shows how much they knew about history.

I Have Been Studying Martial Arts Theory since 1997, thanks To Dr. Yang Jwing Ming And YMAA Publications. And Have Read Some Of These stories And Legends. And Truly Value The Information. Thanks

Love Chinese Martial artists novels and movies especially when they mastered weightlessness.

Many modern Chinese historians suggest that there was no such person as Zhang Sanfeng because he appears in different time periods. If you believe that Zhang Sanfeng lived for 200 years, you probably believe in the tooth fairy. Also, they trained martial arts in the Wudang temples way before the Ming period. Another myth is that Taoists (or Tai Chi) created Yin Yang and the five element theories. Historically the Taoists borrowed/ copied heavily from the Naturalists (Yin Yang Sect) and Mohism. The Taoists were some of the first to translated many of the Buddhist texts into Chinese and adopted many of their teachings. Another fun fact is that the people from Chen Village, which is down the road from the Shaolin, practiced SOFT styles from Shaolin's east court yard as well as Long Fist and Lohan. This was the origin of what some people call Tai Chi.

Please Ben, do a compilation of ghost and demons from the chinese mythologies, since we are in the middle of the ghost festival

I am starting to feel like Shen Yun is following me, and may know where i sleep. This is the 5th mention of it i have seen today.

@kiriInvestigator4597

8 ай бұрын

No that is the KZread algorithm following you hahaha

I just learned about your Chinese historical treatises'.. Good Job, Sir:, you have my attention and visual enthusiasm... At the moment, i dont speak Chinese, however, my Language backgroung are Japanese and Korean.. Therefore, its interesting to note the That both of these Countries utilize The Northern as well as the Southern Chinese Dialects when reading Han Moon, (Chinese Ideograms or Characters.if you exclude their indigenous way of reading Chinese.) Thus, (White Eye Brow) in the South may be refered to as Pak Mei, and or, in the North, know as Pei or in Manchurian:, (Pek Mei) hence, White Eye Brow of the Shaolin Monk and also used to describe Lao Tzu, The Author of Tao Te Ching,(Way of the Life Force) A Taoist Sage from the 3rd Century B.C."Who does not eat The Five Grains"... At any rate most of these books were Torn in Half due to the Japanese Imperial Armys' attempt to steal the The Chinese Secrets of immortality and The Secret "Mandalas or Mantras" that could be danced foot Steps (as in Kung Fu) and not merely a vocalized Chant that supposedly Opened up Portals of the Hidden Dimensions by way of syllables uttered Vocally(known in the West as Quantum Particle Physics) hence, in Chinese (FengShui or Wind and Water Concepts) which was also can be applied to Music, in terms of distance between The Notes and Timing thus, Tempo as in Thai Boxing, Etc. Therefore, in a Capsule:, even though the Japanese have come a long way with only retrieving half or slightly less and then some, of the "Chinese Books" such as:, The Secrets and Foundations of Kung Fu. However, alot still seems "Much to be Desired" as you can hypothesize from their Angular rigid interpretations of What was Chinese Martial Arts, even though they now claim it as a synthethis, with only half a book ? And many books if the Truth were known by way of Espionage and Skull Dugery, that is old as Time...

General shen from the Chinese Nationalist army that retreated to Taiwan helped to publish the book on this immortal used this man training general shen lived to 94 years of age and had 200 concubines

A lovely story/ myth. Sadly he never existed. There is no point having a martial art that doesn't hurt anyone and that is definitely not true of Tai Chi Chuan. Tai Chi is a real martial art that is very effective the biggest problem is that most people do not train it properly as a martial art because they all think it's going to work like magic and not be hard work to learn. I love these old stories and myths, but they shouldn't be taken seriously.

@nicholasmclaughlin8638

8 ай бұрын

You can't be sure of that, China has a long history and records of inner cultivation methods.

I have a white belt in Tai Chi. And a black bag of Chai Tea.

@lythonoise

8 ай бұрын

You might consider buying a bag of ti ti so that you can see its contents.

@lythonoise

8 ай бұрын

The general rule of labeling by transport method is cha/chai if by land, it/tea if by sea.

200 years he lived? Definitely great fiction. People back in that day were lucky to live to 30.

You actually explain taichi better then some of the Chinese instructor. But I disagreed that modern practice is effective for battle.

Apparently he’s not the only Chinese martial artist who lived for over 200 years

@ruwanbandara1802

9 ай бұрын

Bro can you name few others please with referrence...

@khunpan4426

9 ай бұрын

Pai Mei is one of them

@rahiimwingate881

8 ай бұрын

Pak Mei (White eyebrow)

@khunpan4426

8 ай бұрын

@@rahiimwingate881 yeah he is Zhang Sanfeng rival.

What movie is that?

This is really a great example of the reason I'm studying Chinese: I want to be able to read the official compiled history and classical works. But, I know there's been a lot of assimilation to Han Chinese language and culture, how can I separate the influence of the CCP and the influence of the Han from the classical texts? Are there any preserved and accurately copied original texts remaining?

@Thomas-VisualKey

9 ай бұрын

A good question

@ErraticFaith

9 ай бұрын

The Han are still our people. You need not disassociate. My teacher lives on the mountain and he would tell you 'whatever you see, do not reflect it's image. Reflect your wish for it' You will never understand the original text, by sidestepping the modern. So if you care about my country and it's history as you claim? Work backwards. The CCP are not all bad people as you suppose. Some of them would like a much better relationship with the west and are simply afraid. When you look at the state of the world, I hope you have some sympathy for that. Master your Mandarin. Work into your Traditional. There you will find stepping stones to the Ancient. Hun, this is NOT a short road. It's a lifetime pursuit. So there is no answer to your question but the above. There is a pretty famous quote from a little green western character in a movie, than I am sure you will recognize. 'You must unlearn, what you have learned'. If you truly seek. You will find! NO shortcuts.

@johnyossarian9059

9 ай бұрын

"The CCP are not all bad people as you suppose. Some of them would like a much better relationship with the west and are simply afraid." There is nothing more the West would like to see than a weak and chaotic China. Preferably divided into many mini states. Why? Because a strong and united China is a thorn in their side. The West, primarily the US and her allies, want to continue their global domination and they see the way to do is to keep down any country that can threaten their position. So no, wanting a better relationship with the West doesn't automatically make any leader of a country a good leader. Standing up for the interests of their country against Western domination is what makes a good leader

@johnyossarian9059

9 ай бұрын

LMAO😂🤣😂🤣😂 How to separate Han influence from classical Chinese texts? Which people and culture do you think produced those compiled histories and classical works? It's like saying, "oh I want to study classical English philosophical works but how to weed out the influence of the evil English people and the British Labor Party from those works?"

@ErraticFaith

9 ай бұрын

Your ignorant projection doesn’t speak for a vast amount of Chinese. I always laugh because you’re forcing western talking points on us and acting like it’s our culture. Which is practically the whole ‘racist appropriation’ dialogue. I have zero interest in it. I have very little tolerance for western politics which …isn’t even really that anymore. So feel free to take the contrived bigotry elsewhere and leave us alone.

please do some reseach on Lao Tze another immortal who wrote the Tao Te Ching

Immortality has been misinterpreted for centuries. The real immortal is the one who has gone beyond mere body identification. A real Taoist is a Yogi seeking enlightenment. For those seeking to cross over the three worlds I highly recommend pursuing Raja Yoga, and/or Kundalini and Siddha Yoga, with the practice of Tai Chi Chuan. These two compliment one another in marvelous fashion! Fare well. All the best. Laoshr #60 Ching Yi Kung Fu Association

Gentle Fist☯️

The passage of time corrupted his sensibilities and that's when he died and Pai Mei was born

Did you see the ufo at 1:41?

ur chinese speaking is very accurate level

Zhang Sanfeng est un personnage légendaire. Il n’est pas le fondateur du Tai Chi.

My knees all messed up,30 yrs ago i would have try it,yep

Is tai chi just a slow movements of hands and legs in a pattern? How can this prompts health? Can't we also design our own pattern? I am layman to Tai chi. Please Help me

Just proves that. Some people are. MORE. PRIVALEGE THAN OTHERS

I'm tired but for a second I thought the guy in the thumbnail was Jon Stewart 😂

👍

I named my first born after Zhang San feng

absolus

Are we certain he didn't travel to Australia and witness the Snake and Magpie fighting?

Problem though is it really the same person? Or did they pass on the teaching to the highest disciple and thus created a legend by making that person the new Zhang Sanfeng.... I guess with the information available, we will never know...

@DickDickerson01

8 ай бұрын

That's logical thinking.

Maybe I’m a weirdo, but pretty much ALL cultures have stories of people living close to 200 year lifespans. Particularly the Bible. So is it really that out of the realm of possibility that there could be some truth to this? I’ve heard Yogi’s describe Yoga as “Technology” and I thought that was fitting. I believe that it is quite possible that there a chemical & bioelectric processes in the body we have yet to understand, that practices like Tai Chi could possible enhance or restore with an effect on longevity.